A huge part of the Twitter culture is the twitterfying of words. OK, that twitterfying thing is our word, but the Twitter culture does have all sorts of created twerms: Twestival, tweeps, tweighbor, twoop, twibe, twitcetera (twitcetera is ours, couldn’t resist). Twamway is another one of our words. We’re combining Twitter and Amway. Sorry if […]
Two weeks ago we suggested you “tell someone you work with how they made last week better.” And we called it “Good job Monday.” Well today we want to say “Good job” to our friend Jason Alba whose company JibberJobber is celebrating its three year anniversary today! Jason Alba, while not someone who works
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The Oneicity blog is 100 days old! Oneicity existed before that, but our blog was our coming out party! Our first blog post was on Inauguration Day–January 20, 2009. In his 100-day press conference, a member of the press corps asked President Obama what had surprised him, enchanted him, surprised him and troubled him since
We’re starting the week by lifting your eyes to the horizon and reminding you that it isn’t the critics who count–it’s the men and women like you who are leading ministries in tough times, who are caring for donors, who are figuring out how to use new tools to raise money and who are turning
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Don’t know about you, but we’ve had some crazy weather for our area this winter. Usually we’re lucky if we get snow. This year we got more than our share. OK, sure, not like a “Chicago winter,” but abnormally cold and snowy for us. Usually we have lots of cold, gray skies and enough rain
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Wow, we can’t believe how quickly the last two weeks have passed. The Oneicity team reached maximum capacity–a huge presentation and several major projects all came together at one time. We had to take care of our clients first. But we learned some valuable lessons that apply to ministry as well to as our world.
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Our friends over at The Chronicle of Philanthropy are throwing a wonderful webinar—FUND-RAISING IN THE RECESSION: Surviving the Recession—10 Ideas for Raising Money. Great idea. Really long title. One huge problem: Ummm…there’s a recession (or as we prefer to call it, “that economic disturbance that shall not be named”). The comments on their blog have
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A week has passed since the big Twestival! I’m still thinking about social media and donor acquisition, charity:water and the chorizo stuffed mushrooms at the Spitfire Grill. Interestingly, since my participation in the charity event, with the exception of the online discussions I had with Doug and Mike the organizers of the Seattle event, as
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy is hosting a pretty lively discussion on social media, the Tipjar issue and general self-promotion. Much of it is the same kind of discussion we had here last week—with a side-order of defensiveness. Give it a look. Let us know what you think. Hoots and Thomas
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Inauguration Day 2009. An inauguration is an installation of newcomers. Today our country gets a new president. And today, Oneicity launches its blog and website. For many, Barack Obama represents hope for a new future. For some, today is a day of sadness. But whatever the emotions, it is a monumental day, a beginning, a
Oneicity was born from our desire and passion to serve small- and medium-sized ministries and non-profits with affordable fundraising and marketing. We are a professional services firm that is unlike any you have ever worked with.
