Here’s the April edition of the Nonprofit Blog Carnival. This month’s theme was Raising Money Online. 

So many nonprofits are looking to the internet as an inexpensive tool for raising money.  While it can be a great technique, there are definitely things that work and things that don’t. Here are some nuggets of wisdom about raising money online.

Oneicity has an some good tips in Steve Thomas’ post “Optimize Online Fundraising.”

Joanne Fritz has a great post about optimizing your website called “What Online Donors Want to See On Your Website.”

Jeff Brooks has a good post pointing out some critical mistakes in his post called “How nonprofits fail their donors on the web.”

Kivi Leroux Miller had a whole week on Online Fundraising at the Nonprofit Marketing Guide.  Check out “Super Online Fundraising, Step 6.”

My pal Sandra Sims has some great advice on the Step By Step Fundraising site called “Accepting Donations Online: Three great Service Providers.”

Katya Andreson has a post called “Nonprofit websites even worse than government ones.”

Abny Santicola posted a great piece from the AFP Conference in New Orleans.  It’s called “Six Best Practices for Balancing New and Traditional  Media.”

And here are some social media-specific posts that you might find interesting:

Mark Pitman has “A Case for Twitter, Facebook, and social media for healthcare fundraisers.”

Beth Bates at the Good Works Grapevine has a an interesting case study about fundraising with Facebook.  Her post is called “Has Your Organization Benefitted from Facebook Causes?”

Britt Bravo talks about philanthropy on Twitter in her piece called “Hugh Jackman Makes $100,000 Donation Using Twitter.”

Marion Conway talks about fundraising with Facebook in her post called “How Facebook is both horrible and ninja for fundraising.”

Jeff Brooks has an interesting perspective on the use of Twitter for nonprofits called “Twitter better for birds than nonprofits.”