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

  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.

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).

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

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...

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

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.

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

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

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.