# Happy eighth birthday to Nonprofit Online News

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/04/03/happy-eighth-birthday-nonprofit-online-news/
- Published: 2005-04-03T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Michael Gilbert’s excellent Nonprofit Online News this week celebrates its eighth
anniversary of offering insightful and practical news and tips for nonprofit organisations.

Michael, perhaps best known for his Gilbert Email Manifesto of April 2001, started
Nonprofit Online News as a private link list for his colleagues. Every day it includes
two or three paragraphs summarising a new resource, book or article that he has 
discovered, adding his own analysis together with a link to the resource.

He then opened Nonprofit Online News to the public in the form of what has now been
termed a weblog, before the word had been coined. “It’s probably tied for the oldest
weblog still being published”, he suggests.

But it is much more than a weblog. Gilbert says “it’s a newsletter, a magazine, 
a community – but it will always be a weblog at heart.”

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Gilbert’s interests and expertise are wide-ranging, covering not just nonprofit 
technology but management, governance, policy, and knowledge management. He has 
also been vocal in his concern at the impact on the US nonprofit world of the Bush
administration and its policies.

 * **[Institute of Fundraising criticises lottery grant for school meals programme](https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/04/03/institute-fundraising-criticises-lottery-grant-school-meals-programme/)**(
   3 April 2005)
 * **[Charity wristbands alert 'unfair'](https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/04/03/charity-wristbands-alert-039unfair039/)**(
   3 April 2005)
 * **[Institute of Fundraising seeks new trustees](https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/04/04/institute-fundraising-seeks-new-trustees/)**(
   4 April 2005)