# Yoda takes to Twitter to dispense fundraising wisdom, he does

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/07/25/yoda-takes-twitter-dispense-fundraising-wisdom-he-does/
- Published: 2013-07-25T18:33:35+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**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](http://twitter.com/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.

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

 

![Not thanking donors](/files/images/fundraising-green-one-1.jpg)

 

![Ignore online giving, you must not](/files/images/fundraising-green-one-2.jpg)

 

![Wallets they are not](/files/images/fundraising-green-one-3.jpg)

 

![Ask before thanking](/files/images/fundraising-green-one-4.jpg)

 

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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