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Gilbert E-mail Manifesto

Howard Lake | 10 April 2001 | News

Repeat after me: “Email is more important than my web site!” So says Michael Gilbert, non-profit technology pioneer and founder of SocialEcology.com.

Repeat after me: “Email is more important than my web site!” So says Michael Gilbert, non-profit technology pioneer and founder of SocialEcology.com. We agree: UK Fundraising’s founder Howard Lake wrote in his 1996 book “using e-mail must form the cornerstone of a fundraiser’s strategy for fundraising on the Internet… Yet e-mail is often overlooked by fundraisers in the rush to acquire a WWW site.”

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