Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 22, 2013

However, as LinkedIn, Blogger and Myspace all celebrate their 10-year anniversary this year, nonprofits have now had a decade to study and experiment with social media and create systems for successfully launching and tracking the value of their social media campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 3, 2012

Blogger, LinkedIn and Myspace all launched in 2003. We’re almost a decade into using social media and yet one of the most striking realities when I give in-person social media trainings is the wide variety of experience of the nonprofits in the room. So, where are you at in the spectrum of social media experience?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

I’ve observed this phenomenon on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Myspace, and Foursquare. There is absolutely a math to social media and once you hit that 5,000 mark, you’ll begin experience a faster pace of growth. From there on out, the larger your community gets, the faster it grows.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

A couple of good articles about how nonprofits are using myspace and some dos and don'ts this week. I have a myspace site but I haven't done any deep experimination. MySpace and Political Campaigns Joshua Levy at the Personal Democracy Forum wrote about the use of MySpace for political campaigns and by advocacy organizations.

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Myspace Teen Awareness Interview 50

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

There’s also been a bit of controversy around the Causes application specifically, due to it’s decision to abandon the MySpace platform and offer it’s application/services only to the Facebook community. You can read more about the MySpace/Facebook move here , here , and here.). 25 median donation amount.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

The Humane Society , PETA , Oxfam , Invisible Children , and the National Wildlife Federation were the early adopters of MySpace and social media in the nonprofit sector, and all of them have gone on to build massive communities on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube over the last five years.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Nothing kills an online community faster than spam (think Myspace ) and LinkedIn Groups have plenty of it. I only bring it up because it is a particularly, uniquely LinkedIn Group experience. All that said, LinkedIn Groups have a built-in statistics tool that allows you to view or share the stats of any group on LinkedIn.

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Linkedin Social Media Group Spam 192

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Once I started clicking around and adding Gadgets and experimenting with Buzz, Reader, Themes, Maps, Gmail, Google News and hopefully soon Google Voice , it was immediately clear that I was going to start using iGoogle and Gmail much more often. iGoogle Home > MySpace. iGoogle Home. iGoogle Home > Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 17, 2010

To ensure a positive user experience, we require admins of large Pages to confirm their affiliation with the brand, business, person, or entity that their Page represents. I would argue that indeed “Nonprofit Organizations&# is a brand that I started building on MySpace five years ago. It has taken 2.5

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Experiments, snafus and stumbles December 17, 2007 I seem to have lost my head. Turns out, unlike Facebook, or Myspace and such, the “Spock Bot&# makes pages for people without their knowing. Creepy part: do I really want to know what’s on my ex-girlfriend’s MySpace page? You know why I started to twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

In 2008, the WWF was on Myspace and likely utilizing a Facebook Group and YouTube Channel, but those tools had not yet become integrated into their website design. e-Newsletter :: By 2008 nonprofits were beginning to understand and harness the power of e-mail marketing for online fundraising, branding, and cause awareness.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 22, 2016

In the late 1990’s nonprofits began to launch websites, experiment with email marketing, and sign up for their first “Donate Now” service. Then, in the late 2000’s nonprofits embraced social networking sites, first Myspace and YouTube, then Facebook and Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

MySpace estimates that 50% of its Website traffic will be mobile within 24 months. I am also experimenting with running a TextMark… you can subscribe at www.textmark.com/NONPROFITORGS. Tags: Facebook Flickr LinkedIn Mobile Technology MySpace Twitter YouTube. The Web and how people use it is transforming quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Then I go to Marc Sirkin's blog Why not just jump off the cliff and have some fun experimenting? and we're going to let it fly for a whlie on our LLS myspace profile. that they are doing something wrong experimenting. Each site is different - LinkedIn has a different vibe than Myspace - and very different users.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Ideally, it should match your Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, MySpace and Foursquare URLs. Unlike Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, and Foursquare, this image should be rectangular, not square. Unlike Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, and Foursquare, this image should be rectangular, not square. Experiment with me!

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Broadcast Channel Stream Myspace 227

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 2, 2015

The Internet was primarily a desktop PC or laptop experience and reading news and sending and receiving email accounted for the majority of time spent online. They began actively using Myspace in 2004 and YouTube in 2005 – years before the Fortune 500 companies. Nonprofits pioneered social media. Operation Smile 2005.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

The 1 st tool was MySpace back in 2007. The tools I am currently using are Facebook, two Twitter accounts (one for National messaging via @PanCAN and one specifically for advocacy efforts via @Advocate4PanCAN), YouTube, LinkedIn, MySpace and Delicious. It helped people connect and experience Advocacy Day 2010 from their homes.

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Cancer Los Angeles Social Media Action 223

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits. Written for the June 2011 issue of Fundraising Success Magazine , where I am writing a quarterly column throughout 2011. Craziness!

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Social Media Avatar Media Ratio 278

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I could understand making this mistake a year or two ago when everyone was still experimenting, but at this point its clear that social media is not a fad. Twitter :: Examples of Excellence. Facebook :: Needs Improvement. Facebook :: Example of Excellence.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 1, 2010

All webinars are given by Heather Mansfield who has spent 50 hours a week for the last four years running the Nonprofit Organizations Twitter profile , the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page , the Nonprofit Organizations YouTube Channel , the Nonprofit Organizations MySpace , and the Social Media for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

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. Tags: Uncategorized Facebook MySpace Twitter. I have spent the last few months making some significant changes. from working on the weekends.

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Social Media Media Management Tips 259

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

Make new friends (Google+) and keep the old (Myspace). They move with you from one site to the next and maybe in the case of Myspace, back again. And even if Google+ doesn’t turn out to be the Next Big Thing, referral traffic in the early adoption phase is high enough to make experimenting worth your time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

At the time, nonprofits were primarily only using Myspace and YouTube. The media had made Myspace, and social networking in general, out to be dangerous, life-threatening even. Originally published in the November 2011 issue of Fundraising Success Magazine where I have written a quarterly column throughout 2011. Yes, yes… I know.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Back in 2006 when I joined the organization we had a MySpace page with 25 friends. From there I signed us up for various Facebook groups and profiles and continued experimenting sites like Change.org and Care2. They were supportive and encouraged me to test and experiment. What social media tools are you currently utilizing?

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Social Media National Interview Examples 190

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

My guess would be either MySpace, YouTube, or Facebook Causes. I would say MySpace has dropped off the most for us. Did you experience resistance from higher ups in the organization initially utilizing about social media, or were they supportive? YouTube: youtube.com/natureconservancy. Who maintains your social media campaigns?

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Social Media Conservancy Interview Media 209

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

MySpace has become the ghetto of the digital landscape,” Ms. Did you consider MySpace ? You may hear about Facebook, but if your audience is on MySpace, it doesn’t matter how much time and energy you put in. Has your organization had experience reaching your core constituents in an online social network?

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Care2

MAY 7, 2007

» Monday May 07 2007 Sunny the Seal Melts Hearts on MySpace Monday, May 7, 2007 at 04:34PM | by Hatef Yamini Carie Lewis of the Humane Society recently shared with us some lessons learned about branding and list recruitment from their unique MySpace campaign against clubbing baby seals. Any other metrics that are worth noting?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2010

Once you start browsing around and experimenting, you’ll quickly come to realize that there are a phenominal number of free Twitter tools now available to nonprofits – that can also be used to improve website, e-newsletter, blogging, and social media campaigns. They may not even know the tools exist.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

There’s a powerful synergy that begins to occur when your nonprofit has a presence on multiple on social networks and unfortunately most nonprofits never get to experience it due to capacity issues. A good social media manager has experience with online communications and fundraising.

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Social Media Management Media Social 272

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2011

They were on Myspace and organizing via Facebook Groups years before corporate brands, higher education, and broadcast and print media. It’s not a great starting point your nonprofit’s mobile photo-sharing campaign as it is now, but a tool to watch and experiment with nonetheless. Nonprofits pioneered social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2010

Donating is a pubic experience. is all of the above except that the Web experience is no longer limited to desktop and laptop computers while stationary in one place. Friends, fans, followers, connections, etc. Web 3.0 = Mobile Websites, Text Campaigns and Smartphone Apps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

Some participated in the formal experiment I designed which involved a quick knowledge sharing task. The formal experiment I designed involved asking people to pick a useful post from the list of FriendFeed bookmarks in del.icio.us room, etc). Jonathon D. In addition, a lot of ad hoc conversation and informal resource sharing unfolded.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007. Did you experience resistance from higher ups in the organization initially utilizing about social media, or were they supportive? Blog: wfwnotesfromthefield.wordpress.com. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when?

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Social Media International Interview Examples 215

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 16, 2010

Last November we saw a few alarming events taking place in this social media for social good sector: Causes left Myspace and Ideablob shut down , both without warning or community support. Share your ideas and your experiences. In a guest post on the Tactical Philanthropy blog I started brainstorming about what was next.

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Ning Causes Build Evaluation 208

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

They were getting creative and pioneering MySpace in 2005 and Facebook in 2006 long before corporate brands and universities, but that hasn’t been the case with mobile technology. Nonprofits were the absolute first to utilize social networking sites. Example: www.textmarks.com/nonprofitorgs.

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Group Campaign Free Mobile 212

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

MySpace, Friendster, FriendFeed, Diaspora, Bebo, and others all offer plenty of fuel to the argument that comparing two social platforms has to go beyond the functionality of messaging, commenting, and connecting to your friends. Please share the link and your thoughts about the experience so far! Apples and Oranges.

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Social Network Network Strategy Social 165

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

That said, there are some resources and tools that I continually refer to and use again and again, and others that I am still experimenting with that may (or may not) become integral to my communications routine. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc.

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