# Following the International Fundraising Congress

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/10/20/following-international-fundraising-congress/
- Published: 2009-10-20T14:27:05+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Whether you are present at the 29th International Fundraising Congress in Holland
this year or not, you can keep up with a wide variety of comment, information, reports
and chat using Twitter.

 

While there were just two of us using Twitter last year to share what we were hearing,
there are dozens of delegates doing so this year.

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Here are some ways you can keep up to date:

 

* the front page of UK Fundraising is showing a live feed of tweets mentioning the#
29thIFC hashtag throughout the week of the Congress

 

* you can follow the Twitter search on that hashtag at

 

http://twitter.com/#search?q=%2329thifc

 

Note it doesn’t automatically refresh but it will tell you towards the top when 
there are new results to show.

 

* if you use the free Tweetdeck application to access Twitter, available from

 

www.tweetdeck.com

 

then you can create a new search column on the term #29thifc. It will create an 
automatically updated list of all the latest tweets.

 

* at Whatthehashtag.com you can follow the latest tweets but also view a dashboard
of other information, like the most profilic user of the hashtag (the prize goes
at the moment to @KimbeleyCanada), the number of occurrences per day, number of 
tweets per day etc:

 

http://wthashtag.com/29thifc

 

* you can find a list of those tweeting from or about the Congress at

 

http://tweepml.org/29th-IFC/

 

I created this last week, adding people who had mentioned the event via Twitter.

 

Note how you can start following them in almost one click.

 

This list has, incidentally, generated 149 new followers for the 38 people now listed
on it in the past five or six days.

 

There are plenty of other ways of following conversations on Twitter. I might add
a few later, but the above should keep you going.

 

And for those who start to overdose on the content coming out of the IFC, I share
the above also with a view to encouraging you to think how you or your supporters
can use these tools to share and promote your organisation’s events.

 

 * **[Video interview with Margaret Bennett at 29th IFC](https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/10/23/video-interview-margaret-bennett-29th-ifc/)**(
   23 October 2009)
 * **[SOFII's first birthday celebrated at 29th IFC](https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/10/23/sofii039s-first-birthday-celebrated-29th-ifc/)**(
   23 October 2009)
 * **[Competition offers half-price entry to International Fundraising Congress 2011](https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/06/01/competition-offers-halfprice-entry-international-fundraising-congress-2011/)**(
   1 June 2011)

## Comments

### By: admin

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/10/20/following-international-fundraising-congress/#comment-3793
- Published: 2009-10-21T09:04:59+01:00

Jonathan Waddingham at JustGiving ([@jon\_bedford](http://twitter.com/jon_bedford))
has featured our coverage of the IFC in a blog post at

[http://charities.justgiving.com/2009/10/20/charity-news/not-going-to-the-ifc-follow-the-action-on-twitter/](http://charities.justgiving.com/2009/10/20/charity-news/not-going-to-the-ifc-follow-the-action-on-twitter/)

Jon was the only other person with me using Twitter at last year’s International
Fundraising Congress.

In July this year Jon [commented on how Twitter had been used](http://www.professionalfundraisingblogs.co.uk/content.php?id=302)
at the National Fundraising Convention in London.

In his latest article Jon asks: “is this the point at which Twitter starts to become
more mainstream and accepted in the sector?”