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Why Nonprofits Should Sync Their Twitter and MySpace Accounts

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Traffic has definitely sloooowed, but the site still has 57 million monthly visitors in the United States ( as of December 2009 ). Age, class, race, and location play a huge role in who uses what social networking sites. They want a human behind the avatar. I created the Nonprofit Organizations MySpace in 2006.

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Guest Post: A New Role for Science Museums--Playground for Scientists

Museum 2.0

I tweeted and Facebooked a request for friends to suggest things I could resolve to do over the course of 2009. Back in 2008, I devised a plan to outsource my New Year''s Resolutions. Once compiled, I also asked folks to vote on them, promising to do whatever the top twelve were. as a part of Experimonth: Race.

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How Many Hours Per Week Should Your Nonprofit Invest in Social Media?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Not everyone is a natural-born Twitterer, and it may take time to find the right person at your nonprofit to be the voice(s) behind your Twitter avatar, but it’s worth the investment of resources. Location-based communities have a big role to play in the future of nonprofit communications.

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The Future of the Nonprofit Office: Working from Home v2.0

NTEN

avatar), interact with others, and even conduct business transactions. Grant Howe brings more than 16 years of experience to his role as VP of research & development for Sage North America's Nonprofit Solutions business, based in Austin, Texas. Howe has presented at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) since 2009.

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The NMC Symposium for the Future: Prepping for Virtual Keynote about Nonprofits in 2020

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The 2009 NMC Symposium for the Future , the fourteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (October 27-29th), will explore actual and potential applications of technology that could impact issues of global importance over the next five years and beyond. The role of movement-building in philanthropy and the social sector as a whole.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

In ways beyond Marx’s most vivid nightmares, the poor and dispossessed now unwittingly train the very machines built to track their movements and terrorise their communities, or else replace their role in the labour process. The LAPD has used the software around 30,000 times since 2009, often to defend richer enclaves from ‘gang crime’.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

Western audiences came to know Iran through the 2009 election, the internet had been the place where you could find politics happening inside Iran when in person it was very hard there. Susan Pointer: It was the immediacy that played the role in creating interest in Iran. They play a role in alerting the media in other places.

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