Nonprofit Tech for Good
JULY 16, 2012
But internet users of the same race have recently begun clustering on certain social media websites. In its heyday in 2006 and 2007, Myspace was an incredibly vibrant community of artists, musicians, and impassioned activists and do-gooders. Class and race issues play out in social media just as they do in real life.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 2, 2009
As I spent the Thanksgiving weekend pondering gratitude, MySpace made the top of my list of things to be grateful for. If it were not for MySpace, my professional life no doubt would be much less fulfilling. And for that, I will be eternally grateful to MySpace and the “Nonprofit Organizations&# MySpace community.
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Nonprofit Tech for Good
AUGUST 12, 2017
These early adopters were also embracing Myspace when the vast majority of nonprofits hadn’t yet had their aha moment about social media. YouTube launched almost 13 years ago on February 14, 2005 and you got to give credit to the early adopter nonprofits active on YouTube in its early years. World Hunger: A Billion for a Billion.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JULY 28, 2010
Social networking communities are migrant communities. They move with you to The Next Big Thing i.e., from MySpace to Facebook to Twitter to Foursquare. Social media skeptics often say that it’s a waste of time to utilize social networking sites because they are here today, and then gone tomorrow.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MARCH 24, 2010
“A survey of 200 charity and foundation professionals revealed that nonprofits are finding it difficult to determine how valuable social media tools are for their organizations. If you are using social media correctly, then your numbers should rise from month-to-month. Blogging was the missing piece in my social media strategy.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
NOVEMBER 28, 2011
In June 2007, I presented my first social media training to a small group of nonprofits in Lowell, MA. At the time, nonprofits were primarily only using Myspace and YouTube. There’s definitely a math to social media synergy, and those that start early have both time and math on their side.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
OCTOBER 5, 2009
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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