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515 Articles match "Facebook","Personal"
The Latest from the Nonprofit Technology Community
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Kiva.org's development of the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website is facilitating micro-transactions that were previously prohibitively expensive, thereby helping alleviate poverty and raise awareness on a different, more personalized, level.
Social networks like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube keep many of us connected to a continuous stream of information. Jane Meseck, Microsoft Corporation
The The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable people
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Is the message in next week's email consistent with the direct mail and the website -- and what the heck are people saying about us on Facebook and Twitter? As the next generation of donors age they plan to give more and but are also more likely to currently volunteer to organize an event, become a participant fundraiser or help promote their favorite nonprofits via social media and their personal networks. Tad Druart, Convio
Anecdotally Anecdotally and intuitively, you know that changing demographics and technology are driving a shift in your engagement with donors, volunteers,
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Think of the geekiest person in your organization, and multiple them by over a 1,000. Now, updates on Twitter and Facebook are commonplace. I've been attending the South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SxSW) these past few days. It's my first time, and it's a lot to take in.
Everywhere you go, people are nose down in their laptops
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
There are thousands of Apps in the Facebook App Directory that Nonprofit Admins could experiment with on your organization’s Facebook Page, but below I have highlighted my five favorite Apps to get you started:
The Static FMBL App is the most important App on Facebook for Nonprofit Admins to master. It will also allow you to create 1. The Static FBML App
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
NTEN offered a fantastic Webinar today featuring Randi Zuckerberg, Director of Marketing at Facebook and Adam (didn't get his last name) from the DC Office on the emerging best practices for nonprofits who want to set up Facebook Fan Pages.
Expanding on the Non-Profits on Facebook page, we want to help you harness the power of Facebook and bring positive change to the world. Here's the description
This webinar will be a resource for non-profits and other organizations for social good.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Facebook is undoubtedly one of the most popular social media services used by individuals, businesses and non-profits to connect with people. Lately, Facebook Pages have become quite popular among businesses to show their presence in a much better way building engaging and long lasting relationships with users and fans. Let’s see how to make an interactive Facebook page that gives a reason to your fans to stay, interact and Following is a guest post by Rajeev Edmonds from New Delhi, who publishes a blog called Mintblogger (I highly recommend subscribing if you haven’t already).
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
T oday I was asked again about the difference between Facebook Pages and Groups .
Facebook created Pages, Groups and Profiles – three separate applications – to help individuals and organizations achieve three separate goals:
Create a presence for a business, brand or non-profit on Facebook ( Facebook Pages ).
The same question came up a couple of times during the Philanthropy.com chat that Chris Garrett and I conducted back in February.
Pages, Groups and Profiles
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Last week, I asked my readers to share their best advice for using a blog for personal branding and job searching. So below is the Bamboo Project Readers' Guide to Blogging for Personal Branding . Should You Blog? To the question of "Should I Blog?" If you want to read some real-life stories of how blogging has accelerated several careers, definitely check out Heather's paper. Sacha Chua , another poster child for how blogging can support personal Networking 2.0: Blogging Your Way Out of a Job...
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Monday, March 9, 2009
hate Facebook and I always have . And I wonder about how the power of personal connections and tagged photos can keep people using it in spite of that). Facebook suffers from the worst case of feature creep ,that I have ever seen. I just wanted to tell you that it's ok to hate Facebook . Here's a little secret for you. I
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
S mall businesses and non-profits that have a Facebook page can leverage the Notes application to drive web traffic to their sites. Facebook currently lets Profile users import one RSS feed from a blog into their Facebook wall using the Notes application.
You must have at least a small group of raving fans on Facebook. Here’s why this is powerful:
If you have 30 fans who each have 100 friends, your blog post will be seen by as many as 3,000 people.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Even when I wasn’t at home at my desk, I was on my iPhone updating Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc. The good news is that I have found using Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc. Pick one social networking profile and keep it entirely for fun and your personal life.
Justly Six months ago I came pretty close to complete social media burnout. I
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
common mistake is to assume that because a person is “young” and has been using Facebook for years to stay in touch with friends and family, then they must be good at using social media for branding an organization. What websites were your visitors on right before they visited your site [Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace]? Last week a study came out that said small to medium sized nonprofits were not gaining much from using social media. I
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Friday, July 27, 2007
It's a wonder I have any time left to blog at all now that I've signed up for Facebook. This post is for those of you who have not even peeked into it yet. I'll tell you my conclusion up front: For non-profits looking for ways to get their message in front of new audiences, especially a younger tech-friendly community, maintaining a Facebook presence is definitely worth exploring. Compared to these other sites, LinkedIn is just an online Rolodex, while Facebook and sites like it make it easy for But I felt I really ought to give it a test-drive, now that I see so many people urging non-profits to look into it.
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