Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2008

Myspace is going with OpenID ! Is this a bad thing? That’s a great step. There are some other interesting moves outlined in that great post by Marshall Kirpatrick, my currently favorite ReadWriteWeb blogger Android for the masses, iPhone for the rich? More on that in a later post. { More on that in a later post. { Be Helpful.

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JUNE 16, 2009

Association Jam | Association Management News :: Submit. I'm checking out this new "Digg for associations" from Wild Apricot. Interested to see if any readers here are part of an association and what you think of this new news portal! " Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) Update: MySpace, SixApart (LiveJournal, Typepad and the newish social networking blog platform Vox), and Bebo have now all joined OpenSocial.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. Share and Comment on Breaking News. One of the more effective ways to generate buzz for and traffic to your blog is to tap into the breaking news cycle. That first month Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), as well as newsgroups, commerce sites (like Amazon), review sites, forums, and news groups, and even searches the general Web to find out where your people are and what they’re doing online. Be Helpful.

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JANUARY 14, 2010

Reading the news in early January, I came across a few “Top 5” and “Top 10” lists for a variety of topics tied to 2009. Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2009: Social Media. They live, eat, and breathe social media in its various forms – from Facebook and MySpace to Twitter and YouTube. Telemarketing?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Facebook would do well to follow the lead of Twitter, MySpace and YouTube. years now, and in comparison to Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace and YouTube, the Facebook Page tool set is pretty limited. Facebook doesn’t want a bunch of free agents out there cluttering up the News Feed, so Pages must now be authenticated/authorized.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Turns out, unlike Facebook, or Myspace and such, the “Spock Bot&# makes pages for people without their knowing. So when someone in your addressbook posts a new photo to Picasa, or tweets, you’ll know about it. Creepy part: do I really want to know what’s on my ex-girlfriend’s MySpace page? Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

MySpace, Facebook, and many other businesses have realized that they can give away the tools of production but maintain ownership over the resulting products. Nick Carr, one of my favorite smart dudes, calls it digital sharecropping : What’s being concentrated, in other words, is not content but the economic value of content.

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DECEMBER 8, 2010

million gifts to 66,470 different nonprofits from 2003 – 2009.&# Until you master fundraising on your own site, you SHOULD NOT spend loads of time fundraising on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. It will also ensure that you are ready to strike when your issue is in the news. Here are some key findings. No surprise here.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

» Tuesday Feb 17 2009 Reaching Baby Boomers: The Next Big Demographic in Nonprofit Online Fundraising Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 03:50PM | by Allyson Kapin By: Allyson Kapin , Blogger-In-Chief Direct Mail acquisition is one of the most expensive ways to raise money these days. LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace).

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

» Tuesday Feb 17 2009 Reaching Baby Boomers: The Next Big Demographic in Nonprofit Online Fundraising Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 03:50PM | by Allyson Kapin By: Allyson Kapin , Blogger-In-Chief Direct Mail acquisition is one of the most expensive ways to raise money these days. LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace).

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2009

Websites like Facebook, MySpace and YouTube are among the top 10 most trafficked sites in the US. According to the just released 2009 eBenchmarks study by M&R Strategic Services and NTEN, most of the 32 groups featured in the study saw their online fundraising increase between 2007 and 2008. Who wants to do fund rising programs.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

60) Search « Twestival: To Meet, Tweet And Raise $500K For Charity | Main | The Joys of Google Grants, Part 2 » Wednesday Feb 04 2009 Why Every Nonprofit Should Embrace the Web 2.0 Consider it like an interactive 24-hour news cycle. It’s where people go to gather news, resources and discuss issues. Great post!

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Well, theoretically, if you believe MySpace is a place for donors , your presence there also reaches 64% of Facebook users, 65% of Bebo , and 69% of Hi5. Response: Trackback at Trackback on May 1, 2009 Trackback Reader Comments (2) This is total kismet. How is this valuable? Actually, struggling to write.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Well, theoretically, if you believe MySpace is a place for donors , your presence there also reaches 64% of Facebook users, 65% of Bebo , and 69% of Hi5. Response: Trackback at Trackback on May 1, 2009 Trackback Reader Comments (2) This is total kismet. How is this valuable? Actually, struggling to write.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Current best practices will serve nonprofits just fine in 2009. For organizations that stick to a more traditional managerial and communications structure between now and then, however, raising money is going to be tougher in 2012 than in the darkest days of 2009. So how should your organization prepare for the changes that are afoot?

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

April 27 , 2009 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM 1. Competing for dollars and donors mean: 1) understanding the new ways in which users think about supporting your cause online and donating, and 2) having a presence in those places where your existing supporters, and potential new supporters, are gathering.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

You can use this tool to calculate an estimate of cost and return on investment for the recruitment and fundraising efforts of your staff in social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace. February 9, 2009 | KM - Milwaukee, USA Marketing is only a part of it. April 6, 2009 | Swan Wow, this is huge. Many thanks for the tool!

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

You can use this tool to calculate an estimate of cost and return on investment for the recruitment and fundraising efforts of your staff in social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace. February 9, 2009 | KM - Milwaukee, USA Marketing is only a part of it. April 6, 2009 | Swan Wow, this is huge. Many thanks for the tool!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

You can use this tool to calculate an estimate of cost and return on investment for the recruitment and fundraising efforts of your staff in social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace. February 9, 2009 | KM - Milwaukee, USA Marketing is only a part of it. April 6, 2009 | Swan Wow, this is huge. Many thanks for the tool!

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide) More than 20 million users update their statuses at least once each day More than 4 million users become fans of Pages each day A couple of examples: GreenPeace didnt have everything they needed to conduct an email campaign so they set up a Myspace profile. All rights reserved.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

A couple of examples: GreenPeace didn’t have everything they needed to conduct an email campaign so they set up a Myspace profile. I don’t know people other than that psuedo-Obama-staff guy who would say that e-News is dead. More than 4 million users become fans of Pages each day.

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JULY 2, 2009

60) Search « The Web’s Influence on Affluence | Main | Fundraising Dips In First Quarter Of 2009 » Monday Jun 29 2009 Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools Monday, June 29, 2009 at 10:07PM | by Allyson Kapin Social media! I seriously think it’s "the" buzz word of 2009. Thanks for the new links to look at.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

I started promoting the Public Library of Science to the readers of Nonprofit Online News as far back as December of 2002. And I think that in the new Web 2.0 Think of the people who now depend on Linux, on Google everything, on MySpace and Blogger, etc. 6 Valorie Zimmerman 04.10.07 Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 17, 2007

I never did start a MySpace page, and I don’t imagine I ever will. One of my questions is whether or not they dedicate any time to LinkedIn, or other networking sites anymore, or has Facebook become the one they spend most time on. Be Helpful.

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

You can view more detailed instructions for installing Google Analytics on Drupal , Joomla , Typepad , Wordpress , and even MySpace (yes it works!). Make sure you use the New Tracking Code (ga.js). The new GA code provides more accurate data - theres really no reason to use the legacy code for a new account.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

But I’ll give you my quick definition: Web 2.0 is a series of innovations in web technology that have come together in unexpected ways, to change the experiences that people have in using the internet, and has made it much more deeply a many-to-many experience, rather than the more one-to-many experience it had been before. Be Helpful.

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