Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

With estimates up to 200 million members globally and 12% of all internet traffic, MySpace certainly earns the title of the "top dog" of social networks. Within MySpace, we searched the names of 383 of the largest, most well-known nonprofits to see if they had created profiles. And is it even worth it ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

where your mini-application can extend to: MySpace, Bebo, SixApart, Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, Viadeo and Oracle. It will run on MySpace. " And, of course the challenges: Unproven. Maybe look at some unsuccessful social networking efforts and proclaim it not worth your time.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

” Justin Perkins of Care2 created a great calculator to help nonprofits estimate the cost and ROI for recruitment and fundraising efforts on social networking sites such as Facebook or MySpace. Reader Comments (6) One of the challenges is of course creativity. By the time they get it, too much time will have passed.

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

If youve missed the launch of Facebook Apps Platform almost two months ago, youre already way behind the times. A couple of Care2 staff favorites, of course, include the Care2 Stickies and Petitions. The technology "enables anyone to build any application that.Facebook could build."

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

If youve missed the launch of Facebook Apps Platform almost two months ago, youre already way behind the times. A couple of Care2 staff favorites, of course, include the Care2 Stickies and Petitions. The technology "enables anyone to build any application that.Facebook could build."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

How can we talk about technology in social change, while, at the same time, publishing in a format that limits the availability of this knowledge to people privileged enough to pay for it? At the same time, I have a small organization with an established based of customers that will pay for high quality information. (In

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

On October 21, 2008, I interviewed Marianne Manilov, the National Team Leader at The Engage Network, about their work. Of course, this incredible film was produced in a short amount of time, without a lot of budget to do outreach. Now we all know who Rick Warren is because he hosted a debate; at that time nobody did.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2008

The “Ghosts of a Chance” alternate reality game (ARG) ran from July 18 until October 25, 2008 and was a collaboration between the Smithsonian American Art Museum and CityMystery. Fortunately, over the course of the six requests, fourteen people participated to create a total of thirty-three artifacts. The game website is here.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

At the same time, I had been writing a lot on new communication technologies such as satellites, digital media, cell phones, and so on. 2008 is the year in which all the new technologies, techniques, concepts, innovations of so-called new media are being tried. In 1996 a friend and I did a study of presidential campaign websites.

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Care2

AUGUST 29, 2008

At the same time, I had been writing a lot on new communication technologies such as satellites, digital media, cell phones, and so on. 2008 is the year in which all the new technologies, techniques, concepts, innovations of so-called new media are being tried. In 1996 a friend and I did a study of presidential campaign websites.

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