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Maia Kahlke Mikkelsen

Maia is a trainer, facilitator and consultant in the areas of mobilisation, digital communication and fundraising. She currently is digital manager at The Resource Alliance. She is a founding member of the Bonobo Radical Collective in Copenhagen and has held a variety of positions at Greenpeace and Amnesty International in Denmark,

Don’t forget your pen: Do’s and don’ts of digital fundraising

I spent my entire summer in a summer course studying digital innovation with a bunch of 19-20 year old university undergrads. Apart from making me feel very, very old, they also taught me a few very valuable lessons.

Watching them all getting writers cramps one by one during the written exam – which at the LSE is a deliciously 20th century style affair done by pen and paper – taught me the most valuable lesson of all: It is dangerous to abandon your analogue skills even in a digital world. (more…)

Maia Kahlke Mikkelsen