Here are some of latest blog items and opinion pieces worth noting for the nonprofit world:

• The Daily Tell offers a look at how Twitter is being used to raise money for charities.

• On Major Gifts Guru, Tom Wilson explains how organizations can improve the efficiency of their major-gifts officers.

• The lawyer Jack Siegel explains on Charity Governance why donors should read a recent court decision involving Fisk University before they make restricted donations to nonprofit groups.

• Kivi Leroux Miller has some suggestions (courtesy of Alia McKee, of Sea Change Strategies) for translating news-media coverage into donations.

• Now the Details, a blog on the news-media, asks whether public broadcasting’s fund raising will be harmed if more news operations start soliciting donations to pay for their reporting.

• Susan A. Barry, chief executive of the Community Foundation of Louisville, in Ky., writes about how Americans inspired by “The Philanthropist” television show can find ways to explore their own philanthropic passion. Her opinion article appears in The Courier-Journal.

• In The Wall Street Journal, William Schambra, director of the Hudson Institute’s Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, in Washington, reviews Billions of Drops in Millions of Buckets, a new book by Steven H. Goldberg.

• Christopher Knight, in Culture Monster, the Los Angeles Times’s arts blog, wonders about the impact of the Barnes Foundation case on Brandeis University’s decision to close the Rose Art Museum. A Pennsylvania court in 2004 agreed to a plan to move the Barnes Foundation’s art collection — despite its clear violation of the donor’s stated intent.

• The marketing expert Nancy Schwartz is looking for submissions for her annual “Nonprofit Tagline Awards” on Getting Attention.

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