Useful blogs and Twitter feeds

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• Charity Blog - VolResource
  - CharityBlog is part of VolResource. The Blog Pool section gathers together RSS/news feeds from campaigning sites and charity news blogs.
• Charity Finance Blogs
  - This range of blogs from Charity finance includes a section on fundraising. The dominant theme is fundraising rather than grant seeking.
• Charity tweets
  - A growing number of charities are twittering to promote their campaigns and fundraising activities. Econsultancy have compiled this list of the charities they’ve found so far actively twittering.
• Cllr Tweeps
  - Aims to list all UK councillors currently tweeting.
• Community Development Finance Association
  - A blog from Bernie Morgan, Chief Executive of the Community Development Finance Association – delivering news and views from the Association.
• Craig Dearden-Phillips ‘The Naked Entrepreneur’
  - Blog from founding chief executive of Speaking Up and current social enterprise ambassador.
• Funding news from South Yorkshire Funding Advice Bureau
  - This blog provides news and information on funding opportunities. It includes a guide to funding information services – giving a useful summary of the main pros and cons of different funding search choices for the sector.
• Fundraising Detective
  - The Fundraising Detective brings together some of the latest and best blog posts, fundraising news and other stories in one place.
• Giving (for a change)
  - A blog mainly about philanthropy and social justice. Of interest to those concerned with the politics of the ‘bigger picture’ and the often problematic relationship between giving and social justice.
• Make Your Mark
  - This blog is from Make Your Mark – a national campaign to unlock the UK’s enterprise potential. It aims to create a culture that supports enterprising people to create economic and social impact. A wide range of blogs are linked to from this page on all sorts of topics related to enterprise - including global, local, green and youth issues.
• NCVO Twitter
  - Short updates from a range of activities across the organisation.
• New Philanthropy Capital Blog
  - NPC is an independent organisation that aims to help charities and funders to do good, better. Its content covers both donors and those seeking funds.
• Plunkett Perspective
  - A blog from the Chief Executive of the Plunkett Foundation, which promotes and supports co-operative and social enterprises in rural communities.
• School for social entrepreneurs
  - The School for Social Entrepreneurs provides support, networking and learning programmes for individual social entrepreneurs (and their organisations).
• Socialedge
  - Social Edge is a global online community for social entrepreneurs.
• Third Sector Forums – Funding and Fundraising
  - This forum (or bulletin board) is an online discussion site rather than a blog or a tweet. The focus of this one is fundraising but you can get to other Third Sector subject areas (like governance, accounts and legal) from here as well.
• TweetMinster
  - TweetMinster has been established to make it easier to connect the public with politics, focused on Members of Parliament and Prospective Parliamentary Candidates using Twitter.
• UK Fundraising
  - Several active blogs from Fundraising UK – an Internet fundraising consultancy. Bloggers tend to be fundraisers seeking donations from the public or corporate sector on behalf of charities.
• Yorkshire and Humber ICT Champion on Funding for ICT
  - This blog includes a section on funding ICT with lots of links to useful sources of information, support and free or cheap IT resources.