MySpace estimates that 50% of its Website traffic will be mobile within 24 months. In 2008, over two trillion text messages were sent worldwide. Tags: Facebook Flickr LinkedIn Mobile Technology MySpace Twitter YouTub As the Web goes mobile , so does social media… and so should your nonprofit. If there is one thing I have learned over ten years of using the Internet for fundraising and social change, those nonprofits that can embrace change quickly, empower their visionaries, and adopt new Web trends, reap the benefits of being early adopters .

The time these require is highly correlated to whether you are currently generating this kind of content, but if you are already snapping shots, putting them up on the web (with a handy link back to the museum website) is a cinch, and it's totally acceptable to do it sporadically. create and manage a Facebook group or page, or a MySpace page. On Monday, David Klevan (from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) and I spoke at the MAAM Creating Exhibitions conference about Web 2.0 and museums.

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By the 2008 NTEN shindig in New Orleans, Twitter was an incredible asset. Twitter, of course, can do those things, as Facebook or MySpace can, under the right conditions. Skeptics take note - I agree with you that Twitter , the " microblogging " service that your friends are pressuring you to join, appears to be the ultimate synthesis of vanity and wasted time. All of that potential is there, and, worse, the service seems to advertise those traits as its raison d'etre.

Some of the most popular are LinkedIn (a professional network), Facebook (social and professional), and MySpace (anything goes). After all, one shot efforts to make a MySpace page, a blog, or a social network--no matter how cheap or costly at outset--are only as good as their continued growth and value. Usually, when I start posts with a question in the title, it's a cheat. The presumed answer is "yes" your museum needs a blog, a pony, or a set of comfy couches.

Then they start thinking MySpace, or Friendster, or something weird like Twitter. We all know what happens once you start ambling down the mental road towards MySpace, you start thinking of pictures of people barfing at keg parties. Naming an epoch using the superlative prefix of “post” — as in post-industrial, or post-modern, or the particularly unsatisfying post-millennial — is the one true indicator that we haven’t a clue. When I hear it, I tend to silently grumble the opening lines from A Tale of Two Cities :

Participate in social networks like Facebook and MySpace, as well as niche social networks related to the theme of your blog. Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?" Based on my own experience, and after reading posts about blog traffic by folks like Seth Godin , Darren Rowse of ProBlogger , and others , here is a list of tips I've compiled: Post regularly.

presence on one of the larger social networks like Facebook or MySpace is Time Chart - See Flickr Discussion on Version 1 Wanna Remix it? Download it here I'm getting ready to a workshop later this week, I did a simple pre-workshop assessment, asking folks about their level of experience/comfort and their burning questions .

Today, it's becoming standard practice to communicate with supporters using tools like Flickr, MySpace , Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Peter Deitz, Social Actions With With the global financial crisis at its peak and a recession looming, many nonprofit managers are probably asking themselves, "How will my nonprofit raise money next year?" quot; I suspect fewer fundraisers are asking themselves,

I don't really "do" Myspace, but check this out . In particular, look at the links to all the (mostly charitable) non-profits and associations towards the bottom. I don't pay much attention to MySpace, but maybe I should. Tags: non-profit associations myspac This page has 33,323 "friends". If my association, or non-profit, or cause, or message, interests just 1% of that number, would it be worth it to me?