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Friday, January 15, 2010
So in times of natural disasters like the catastrophic earthquake that hit Haiti and affected more then two million people, can a mobile strategy help raise money in times of crisis?
83% of adults have cell phones or smartphones. 35% of users have accessed the Internet via their phone, according to a December 2009 report by Pew. Shortly after news spread
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Sunday, January 17, 2010
To Do’s are also featured on the iPhone and Android Apps, so you can easily help promote nonprofits and causes you care about to your friends on FourSquare by adding To Do’s that feature nonprofits… and hopefully your FourSquare friends will add a couple of your Nonprofit To Do’s to their lists!
FourSquare is definitely starting to catch on with enterprising techie folks that love to be early adopters. That’s a good a sign.
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
National Priorities Project : They offer three unique web-based tools that nonprofits can use to help educate the masses about the U.S. Over the years I have stumbled across countless Internet gems, but the 10 below are those that I regularly and repeatedly return to. These resources are invaluable when looking for quality content to utilize and share on social media sites.
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Sunday, January 10, 2010
Some have even declared it to be the “ Twitter of 2010 “. I’ll be doing a couple more blog posts on FourSquare over the next month and the site will likely add a lot of new features in 2010 (I’m excited!), Many people that don’t work at nonprofits, but want to help will be adding nonprofits to FourSquare. FourSquare has received quite a bit of buzz over the last few months. I
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
While that’s still true, blogging as a tool for nonprofits needs to be re-evaluated in 2010. utilizes WordPress (a blogging platform) and the statistical data WordPress provides has been incredibly helpful in helping me understand my readers and the content that they are most interested in. There are currently 133 million blogs worldwide. The world doesn’t need another blogger, right?
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
With just a little graphic design help, you can easily brand the App yourself.
We saw that with social media in 2008 and 2009, and the same will be true of mobile technology in 2010.
In October 2009, I wrote about a build-it-yourself iPhone App development service called SwebApps that was waving set-up fees (normally $400-800) for nonprofits until 12/31/2009. I
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
It may help to focus on a single employee, perhaps the one most involved with social media. Maddie Grant & Lindy Dreyer, SocialFish, LLC and Leslie T. White, Croydon Consulting LLC
Ready Ready to adopt a social media policy for your organization staff?
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
The Facebook of February 2010 is quite different from the Facebook of 2009 especially when it comes to Facebook Fan Pages. There is a mysterious Facebook algorithm at play here and I just don’t know what it is, but I do know that with the launch of new Facebook design in early February 2010 the vast majority of Status Updates from Pages that I am a fan of are not showing up in the primary News Feed > Top News. Now the only way fans know if they If you haven’t yet noticed, three very important changes have been made that significantly effect your organization’s Facebook community:
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Monday, December 28, 2009
But what's coming up in 2010? Frogloop asked some of the best nonprofit experts what should organizations focus on in 2010 to be successful in fundraising, online advocacy, online marketing, and social media? Here's their advice.
Cheryl Contee, Fission Strategy: In 2010, nonprofits need to get serious about mobile outreach. As nonprofits scramble to meet their year-end fundraising goals, this is also a great time of year to reflect on what online fundraising and advocacy strategies worked well in 2009. A
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Will the new Pages and toolset help, or hurt future possibilities of increased ROI-as-defined-above?
So, I need your help. I like Facebook. Mostly to stay in touch with close friends. It’s great for that. I
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