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13 of the Best Nonprofit Videos from the Last 13 Years

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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. These early adopters were also embracing Myspace when the vast majority of nonprofits hadn’t yet had their aha moment about social media. It’s Time | Marriage Equality.

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A Short, Recent History of Nonprofit Website Design and Online Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Using the Wayback Machine – a website that allows you to view archived screenshots of your website all the way back to 1996, below is an exploration of how the World Wildlife Fund’s website and online fundraising campaigns have evolved since 2008. World Wildlife Fund Website :: March 15, 2008.

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Social Networking Communities Are Migrant Communities

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They move with you to The Next Big Thing i.e., from MySpace to Facebook to Twitter to Foursquare. I first got on MySpace in February 2006 when I created a portal to Nonprofit Organizations on MySpace. It was vibrant, active, kind and generous. This is when the MySpace vs. Facebook debate began to rage in the blogoshphere.

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Social Media is Going Mobile, and So Should Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

There are more than 65 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices and that number grows daily. MySpace estimates that 50% of its Website traffic will be mobile within 24 months. In 2008, over two trillion text messages were sent worldwide. The Web and how people use it is transforming quickly.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007. Following that, Women for Women International moved on WordPress, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter throughout 2008-2010. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing?

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What OpenSocial Means

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) But the path to truly portable (with adequate privacy controls) profile, social graph and activity data is still not entirely clear. at 1:15 pm Open Social !

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Research Friday: So, where is Bob?

ASU Lodestar Center

1] (In 2008, 26% of adults used an SNS.) MySpace – 29%. This is significantly higher than the 65% of Americans that belonged to at least one voluntary group in 2008." People may be reorganizing their time to participate in more voluntary activities.". As can be noted, many are on multiple sites: Facebook – 92%.