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Which Company is the Most Socially Responsible and Generous to Nonprofits: Facebook? Twitter? YouTube? LinkedIn? MySpace? Flickr? Google?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They also have an extensive list of free or low-cost services for nonprofits and universities through their “Technology-Driven Philanthropy&# campaigns. , Flickr partnered with TechSoup in 2008 to launch Flickr for Good. Tags: Facebook Google LinkedIn MySpace Social Media Twitter YouTube. 2) Google/YouTube.

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Train for Humanity is looking for new participants!

Amy Sample Ward

The initial phase of Train for Humanity ran for four months from September to December 2008. DPDO supports the operation of fifteen elementary schools in North Darfur and they are responsible for teacher salaries and providing classroom supplies (Total Enrollment: 8300 students; Teachers: 160 plus 56 support staff).

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Ice Bucket Challenge: Can Other Nonprofits Reproduce It?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Vickie Davis, CoolCatTeacher Blog, let her students dump water on her and then taught them a lesson on fundraising for a good cause and about ALS. Involving younger people in your organization’s campaigns, as champions, perhaps as part of a lesson on philanthropy is definitely something that can be replicated in other campaigns. (5)

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Google Analytics vs Site Meter

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Analytics vs Site Meter September 18, 2006 Yes, I promise, the post on tagging and folksonomies is coming. But first, a great example of Web 1.0 It’s funny, and appropriate.

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Teens and Twitter: A Mini Focus Group with Teens

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was from April, 2008! Tags: social media research snippets twitter. Using it an internal training, it is important to have someone with hands-on experience in each group and this spreads the organizational learning. . I was also reminded by one very smart colleague that the Twitter audience card had out-of-date information.

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The Revolution is Twitterfied

Forum One

In 2008 TwitterVoteReport attempted to provide real-time election monitoring as US citizens posted voting experiences to their Twitter feeds. YouTube: A student group posting videos on the Iranian election and aftermath. Tags: Communication Human Rights Technology. Facebook: Mousavi on Facebook (via rwanderman ). Ahmadinejad.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. I promise (!) at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,?