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Yoda takes to Twitter to dispense fundraising wisdom, he does

Howard Lake | 25 July 2013 | Blogs

If you ever doubted the value of Twitter as a fundamental component of your professional fundraising development, prepare to think again. @FundraisingYoda has joined Twitter, and is dispensing fundraising wisdom for free.

No, we don’t know who is behind @FundraisingYoda, but she or he first made contact with some North American fundraisers and fundraising consultants, so that part of the galaxy would be a good guess.

What can you learn from @FundraisingYoda? Here are some of the small green one’s nuggets.

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Not thanking donors

Ignore online giving, you must not

Wallets they are not

Ask before thanking

Unfortunately the fundraising Jedi has already departed for another galaxy, possibly due to a cease and desist from Lucasfilm. If you try to communicate with him now, the Dark Side of Twitter has suspended his account.

I was rather hoping to find the message “This is not the account your were looking for”. But taking things too far, that might be…

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