The Filter 4/15/14: Your Weekly Advancement News Roundup

The Filter is a weekly post made up of the best tech, fundraising, and alumni relations conversations that caught our eye in the last seven days.

 

TECH

Twitter jazzes up profiles with Pinned Tweets and bigger photos (Twitter)

One company aims to improve your LinkedIn Ad performance through big data (Forbes)

This wonder material will bring us thinner electronics that can survive everything (The New York Times)

 

FUNDRAISING

How to engage 5 generations of donors and supporters (Nonprofit Tech for Good)

Gifts to colleges rose nearly 10% last year (The Chronicle of Philanthropy)

Insights from the Almanac of Higher Education 2013 (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

Friction-free funding for social causes and philanthropic transparency are the very near future of fundraising (Forbes)

 

ALUMNI RELATIONS

BC uses Facebook to celebrate Siblings Day with its alumni (Facebook)

Get 160 free stock photos from Hubspot (Hubspot)

Optimizing lost alumni research, with a twist (CoolData blog)

 

HAPPY TAX DAY!

A new “Happy” parody especially for Tax Day (YouTube)

 

We read and scour as much as we can, but if one of your faves didn’t make this week’s list, be sure to let us know in the Comments section below!

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