By Margaret Battistelli | Posted on March 03, 2010
This just in from a Twitter post: The third day of the third month is "Talk in Third Person Day."
Margaret has been doing this ever since she found out about it. And Margaret already is annoyed with herself. Talking like this made Margaret realize just how much she talks about herself. Margaret can't say the word "Margaret" over and over again without being acutely aware of it.
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By Margaret Battistelli | Posted on February 19, 2010
FS reader Jeff Schreifels, , made a point the other day in response to my blog post about The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's
Totally Baldacious campaign. I see the point, but I don't completely agree.
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By Margaret Battistelli | Posted on February 17, 2010
Not two minutes
after lauding Holly Ross and her NTEN team for putting it all out there to raise money for the 2010 NTC Scholarship Fund, I got a message from Todd Whitley, vice president of e-marketing at The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, telling me about how that organization's CEO, John Walter, would be taking it all off for the cause.
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By Margaret Battistelli | Posted on February 10, 2010
Damn, I knew there was an award I was forgetting about. It came to me at last year's Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco, early one morning as I was watching a video of NTEN Executive Director Holly Ross bumping and grinding her way through
a gem of a remake of Beyonce's "Single Ladies" video.
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By Janet Spavlik | Posted on February 08, 2010
In the midst of the massive fundraising efforts for Haiti relief, and with donations garnered through text messaging grabbing national and international headlines, it was no surprise that mobile fundraising provoked much discussion and debate throughout the conference.
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