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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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HOW TO: Claim Your Nonprofit’s Spot Page on Gowalla

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Similar to Myspace and Facebook in 2007 and 2008, there’s seemingly a geographic difference between Foursquare and Gowalla users. To claim your Spot Page on Gowalla, go to gowalla.com/business and search for your nonprofit: Once found, if you see a green “Do you run this place? to take possession of it.

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Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

There’s a lot of Google+ euphoria right now and postulations of Google+ being a Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn killer. Facebook or Twitter or LinkedIn war, but because I think it’s dangerous to give one company that much control over nonprofits, and the Internet in general.

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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. Though Facebook had gone public nine months previous, Facebook Groups were only just beginning to be used as community-building tools by nonprofits and Facebook Pages didn’t exist yet. The second most visited website in the U.S.

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What is private? What is public?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

June 10, 2008 Today, someone on the progressive exchange list asked about a tool called Rapleaf. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), I don’t know whether to be sad or proud that RapLeaf finds only my Facebook profile and no demos. What is public? 2 admin 06.11.08

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Web 2.0 Experiments, snafus and stumbles

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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? As a search engine, users never have to sign-up to get value from Spock. It’s an irreversible trend.

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Research Friday: So, where is Bob?

ASU Lodestar Center

My experience searching for Bob is concrete evidence of the helpfulness of various social networking sites (SNS) like LinkedIn and Facebook. 1] (In 2008, 26% of adults used an SNS.) As can be noted, many are on multiple sites: Facebook – 92%. MySpace – 29%. To the rescue: LinkedIn. LinkedIn – 18%. Twitter – 13%.