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Are Nonprofits Raising Money Via Social Networks?

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The 2011 Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report provides some incredible data on how 11K+ nonprofits are using social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and others. Are nonprofits raising any money on social networks? Facebook is the most popular commercial social network for nonprofits.

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Yahoo! Supports OpenSocial; Yahoo!, MySpace and Google to Form Non-Profit OpenSocial Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Just saw a press release from Yahoo, Google, and MySpace about OpenSocial Foundation. Marketing Pilgrim adds: Facebook is steadily refusing to participate in OpenSocial or the foundation, choosing instead to support Facebook developers. Google is emphasizing that OpenSocial is a community effort (or as Mozilla puts it, ???

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What OpenSocial Means

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. What does this mean for the nonprofit sector? OpenSocial is a set of APIs.

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WeAreMedia: Social Networks - Build the Nonprofit Social Media Tool Box

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Nielsen Online The We Are Media Festival of Tools is starts the last week of work on the Nonprofit Social Media Toolbox with a focus on social networking tools and widgets and apps.   The top social networking sites include some familiar names - Myspace and Facebook. And perhaps nonprofits?)

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Facebook, Open Social, Networked Relationship Building, and Leveraging Social Capital

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My question: Network for Good's recent Wired Fundraiser report talks about "superactivists" or the nonprofit equal of Seth Godin's Evangelists. What are you doing to capture email addresses of your Facebook friends/cause joiners/group members? Watch out for Google's Facebook killing strategy, OpenSocial.

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WeAreMedia Module 5: Social Networks (and widgets) for Community Building, Taking Action and/or Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What are the best getting started tips for using Ning or LinkedIn for community building or sharing knowledge? What are the best getting started tips for using Facebook or MySpace for engaging people and inspiring action? What are the best examples from nonprofits? What are the best of the best resources?

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NpTech Tag Summary: Putting the U in YouTube, Some Cool Events, and Electronic Sheep Dreams

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared. NpTech Talk.

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