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How Many Hours Per Week Should Your Nonprofit Invest in Social Media?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

To follow up on Monday’s post about why nonprofits should consider hiring a social media manger , below is an excerpt from Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits that helps further explore the time commitment necessary to create and sustain a comprehensive social media stategy for your nonprofit.

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Social Media is Going Mobile, and So Should Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As the Web goes mobile , so does social media… and so should your nonprofit. If there is one thing I have learned over ten years of using the Internet for fundraising and social change, those nonprofits that can embrace change quickly, empower their visionaries, and adopt new Web trends, reap the benefits of being early adopters.

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Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0 Most often these new experiments have grown out of frustration with the fact that, despite several decades of rapid growth in philanthropy and nonprofits, many of the same social and environmental problems persist, or are getting worse. Call this “social change 2.0”.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

This article was originally published by Taylor & Francis Online. Solving basic social problems requires a level of sustainable investment that donors and government cannot provide alone. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. It may be time to rethink how these important social organizations are funded.

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Struggling to get people to donate online?

Top Nonprofits

About the expert: Amanda Ross is the owner of BrashBerry – creative web design and growth agency for Social Good and Nonprofit organizations that builds stuff their audience will love and inspires them to take action. How to make your “Donate” button stand out on your website. Lead generation. New fundraising ideas. laura@benefactorgroup.com.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

I’ve followed and supported the work of Peter Deitz and Social Actions ever since hearing about his passion and ideas a few years ago. Let’s start at the beginning: What is Social Actions and where does the API come in? The Social Actions project began in 2006. Earlier this week, I got ahold of Peter to get the full scoop!

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Web 2.0 Part IIa: Social Bookmarking

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Part IIa: Social Bookmarking September 24, 2006 After writing my post on tagging , I got sidetracked by Marnie Webb’s mention of ma.gnolia , and then went off to investigate, then decided to write about social bookmarking tools. Ma.gnolia is a new(ish) social bookmarking tool. to Ma.gnolia. bookmarks to ma.gnolia.)