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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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To the Small Nonprofits on the Social Web: 5,000 is the Magic Number

Nonprofit Tech for Good

I’ve observed this phenomenon on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Myspace, and Foursquare. There is absolutely a math to social media and once you hit that 5,000 mark, you’ll begin experience a faster pace of growth. We worked so hard to get to 5,000 and then we took off!

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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. This is when the MySpace vs. Facebook debate began to rage in the blogoshphere. The community was red hot. It was ugly.

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Web 2.0 Experiments, snafus and stumbles

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Experiments, snafus and stumbles December 17, 2007 I seem to have lost my head. Turns out, unlike Facebook, or Myspace and such, the “Spock Bot&# makes pages for people without their knowing. Creepy part: do I really want to know what’s on my ex-girlfriend’s MySpace page? You know why I started to twitter.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » MySpace Launches Applications

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Anyone else out there experimenting? Heather will be demonstrating the new MySpace Apps in a webinar in April. You can learn more about her webinars here. Share and Enjoy: Leave a Reply Get Tips and Best Practices Sign up below to get our newsletters highlighting the latest in online marketing and communications for nonprofits.

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Social Media is Going Mobile, and So Should Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MySpace estimates that 50% of its Website traffic will be mobile within 24 months. In 2008, over two trillion text messages were sent worldwide. I am also experimenting with running a TextMark… you can subscribe at www.textmark.com/NONPROFITORGS. 1 trillion of those were sent by U.S.

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Social Media: What To Do If Your Boss Doesn’t Get It

Nonprofit Tech for Good

At the time, nonprofits were primarily only using Myspace and YouTube. It was the optimal time for early adoption of social media by nonprofits, and it’s no coincidence that the nonprofits that embraced these new tools in 2006 through 2008 are today the most successful nonprofits on the Social Web. Ask for an office smartphone.