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. That’s really what social media is all about – forming relationships. YouTube: youtube.com/natureconservancy. Flickr: flickr.com/groups/thenatureconservancy. I know our YouTube channel started in 2007.

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NetWits

JULY 10, 2012

Here’s how some of the top educational institutions are using Facebook to engage, inspire and build lasting relationships with their students and their families ( Includes slides below ). Top 5 Social Media Tactics Every School Should Implement. 1) Stick to 3 Platforms - Blog / Facebook / Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

That said, promote your “Start A Fundraising Page&# link [ View Example ] on your website, in your email newsletter, on your MySpace profile, your Facebook Page, and your blog. Building relationships with the bloggers and participating in their Cause Communities is an way to possibly receive extra promotion on Change.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

I think the key is to go beyond "friend collecting" and to leveraging social capital through building relationships one-to-one. This happens by building personal relationships, getting to know the people beyond names on your list. Myspace, Bebo, and Six Apart Join Google Open Social from TechCrunch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

Pete Cashmore of Mashable has a post that asks an interesting question: Facebook, MySpace (MySpace reviews), LinkedIn (LinkedIn reviews), Digg and Twitter are often compared in terms of features, but which one has the most generous users? What do you think?

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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. While the giants (Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Flickr and Youtube) are great for outreach and relationship-building, we’ve had surprising successes with StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Plancast and other sites. YouTube: youtube.com/nationalwildlife.

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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. Evaluate your relationship with developers: are you using tools that allow you to surface suggestions, ideas, and useful functionality for development?

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Care2 is pleased to provide this overview of The Online Giving Study: A Call to Reinvent Donor Relationships just released by Network for Good and True Sense Marketing. Online fundraising is all about relationships. Similar to offline fundraising, online fundraising is all about relationships. Here are some key findings.

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NetWits

MAY 21, 2008

“Social networking technology” is the term used to describe websites that allow members to use their personal and business relationships for networking, hiring, and obtaining references. Once someone is added to a user’s network, the user has access to view and correspond with that person and the people in his or her network.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Less then 40% think using MySpace to reach new supporters is helpful. While many nonprofit staff were optimistic in hopes of reaching constituents and building better relationships with them via social networks, nonprofit staff clearly don’t think they are raising money through these channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Tom and Cecile shared a rich story about culture change, loosing control, building relationships, story telling, multi-channel strategies, engagement techniques, online/offline metrics, and more. So, how specifically do they build relationships on social networks? We support it, guide it.". .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

MySpace, back when it was cool. We don’t use it like we use Facebook, for advocacy, fundraising, and relationship building. Twitter: @ HumaneSociety , @ cariegrls. YouTube: youtube.com/hsus. LinkedIn: humane-society , carielewis. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when?

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Care2

JANUARY 18, 2012

Whether it was the news like Ideablob shutting down, Causes leaving MySpace, or Blackbaud buying Convio, the message to individuals and organizations alike is this: we always have and will continue to have an opportunity to call for what we want and build it.

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Care2

MAY 18, 2010

Check out any nonprofit Web site these days, and in addition to an About Us page, you're likely to see icons for Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. Whatever you want to do online, having real relationships with people that care about your cause and are influential in their own social networks is the essence of success.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

This is also a great opportunity to continue the conversation that’s started spreading around the web about the relationship between organizations and activists using social media tools in their work and those building the tools.

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

This “outbound” version of the API enables nonprofits to connect and provide personalized interactions with their constituents in Facebook®, MySpace®, and YouTube®, anywhere they shop or order services, and through the technology devices they use. Check out Blackbaud Labs to see these ideas in action.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

MySpace – 29%. The research indicates that SNS users, especially those using Facebook, have more close relationships than other internet users. In this survey, the four primary social networking sites (SNS) are listed below with the percentage of all social media users. As can be noted, many are on multiple sites: Facebook – 92%.

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Care2

JULY 29, 2010

Social media is a key space to deepen those relationships. Help spread the word about your organizations or cause to their personal network. Here is the short list of the social media sites that are included in our analysis: Facebook. StumbleUpon. LiveJournal. However, results may vary for your file.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Innovation in online fundraising was driven by the release of new technology, such as email marketing services like MailChimp in 2001, the launch of WordPress ( a content management system now used by 44% of nonprofits worldwide ) in 2003, and social networking websites beginning with Myspace in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

That is if you've built relationships and identified influencers). I've seen this first hand -- I don't engage deeply on MySpace - yet some of my donors for the Cambodian campaign who heard about on Facebook and shared it with their friends on MySpace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2008

I thought Peter was saying Twitter will replace Facebook/Myspace or social networks. They talked about ease of use, relationship enabling, shifts of power, community content, and open platform. I think this some of what Marnie was getting at. He probably wasn't - but hard to get that when you're telegraphing ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

Last November, Causes, a popular and free social networking fundraising application, ditched its Myspace widgets and Ideablob closed its doors. What does this mean for nonprofits? For one thing, they have to be aware of the cost of free, especially with software that supports their vital relationships with donors and supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

If you already have a presence on MySpace, check this out - causes has just launched an application at MySpace. Check out Joe Solomon's slides about how to use social media to build relationships. Who has installed it? What are the results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

This project will also track and explore the relationships between anti-censorship groups in different parts of the world who are collaborating to defend the right to access web 2.0 tools and websites. The Access Denied Map will try to contextualize and situate that battle by focusing on two areas: 1. the crackdown on web 2.0 websites (e.g.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Megan: MySpace was probably our first introduction to social media, but not sure the year we created the account. YouTube: youtube.com/thetaprootfoundation. LinkedIn: taproot-foundation. Jumo: [link]. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? We don’t use it in our strategy now, which is telling!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

But first, you have to build trust, credibility and -- most importantly -- a relationship with those who might interact with your posted content. Community Building and Social Networking: You build relationships online, nurture a community, engage people and inspire them to take an action, or raise money using social networks and apps.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

With estimates up to 200 million members globally and 12% of all internet traffic, MySpace certainly earns the title of the "top dog" of social networks. Within MySpace, we searched the names of 383 of the largest, most well-known nonprofits to see if they had created profiles. And is it even worth it ?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

With estimates up to 200 million members globally and 12% of all internet traffic, MySpace certainly earns the title of the "top dog" of social networks. Within MySpace, we searched the names of 383 of the largest, most well-known nonprofits to see if they had created profiles. And is it even worth it ?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 16, 2007

You can search for groups with similar missions (across the street or across the country) and begin/continue to forge powerful relationships. You’ll also be able to post campaigns, create coalitions, show organizational relationships, and share resources needed and available with other organizations. I just got goosebumps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

They are used to text messaging, MySpace, Facebook, get-in, get-out, instant gratification. VolunteerMatch is different from slacktivism services because we’re using technology to help nonprofits and volunteers create enduring relationships based on real-world contributions of time and energy (and often skills as well).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

ve already partnered with 50 non-profits, like Care2 , Greenpeace , and Amnesty International The question it raises for nonprofits is, join an existing network like Facebook or MySpace or build your own social network or combination? And maybe this should not be an either/or question, but most likely resources will dictate that.

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AFP Blog

JULY 7, 2008

Digital Web Magazine - Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web: "Social networks as we know them—MySpace, Facebook, Twitter—each keep identity and personal relationships separate from one another. Every time you join a network, that information has to be duplicated, by hand, by you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Ask questions about the total relationship with the supporter now. Is that MySpace friend an activist? you need to build to build relationships with people before you try and raise money from them. Don't fall into the silo syndrome trap. Learn from the mistakes of the past. Is that LinkedIn connection a donor?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2007

Skeebo Tammas Skeeboo Tammas (or Joe Alamo in real life), a volunteer who also runs KivaFriends.org, Kiva's MySpace page , their Change.org profile and created the kiva.org browser bar. She entered Second Life because of her relationship with kiva.org, but has purchased land and operates a shop called Garb the World.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

Then develop a relationship with them. Here's what he did in the last few days: I have been posting on many Cambodian forums, from Khmerlife.com to myspace groups and I have gotten many different responses. Nhuong also received some good questions from his post over at MySpace: "the organization usually gets most of the money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2009

Yesterday, I attended a webinar about social media policies called " E-Privacy: Can You Legally Monitor MySpace, LinkedIn, E-mail, & Blogs? Disclose your relationship. Source: www.facetime.com/survey08/summary/. presented by Electronic information expert, Robert D. Brownstone, Esq. The key points: Follow all applicable policies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

However, if the tools are in the hands of the resident/customers, that changes power relationships. When we found that MySpace was good for advocacy, Facebook for fundraising, Flickr for easy website photo slideshows, and YouTube for increasing video views, we decided to invest our time into those four.

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