Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

Using the Wayback Machine – a website that allows you to view archived screenshots of your website all the way back to 1996, below is an exploration of how the World Wildlife Fund’s website and online fundraising campaigns have evolved since 2008. World Wildlife Fund Website :: March 15, 2008.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2012

At a time when Facebook was primarily used by college-educated individuals from the middle and upper classes, Myspace was open, diverse, creative, and seemingly the epitome of an online grassroots community. Nonprofits like Invisible Children and To Write Love on Her Arms were born from Myspace.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

I’ve observed this phenomenon on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Myspace, and Foursquare. We worked so hard to get to 5,000 and then we took off! We engaged, asked questions, held competitions, discovered advertising and had a great time teaching the world about our cause and how to keep kids safe.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 25, 2019

Bitcoin was launched on January 3, 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis and bank bailouts. The next Amazon and Facebook will come from this space. By Alex Wilson , Director of BlockShop DC and founding partner of The Giving Block. Let’s start with the basics. Why does that matter? Why are people donating in cryptocurrency?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

Online giving in 2008 was up 44% from 2007. Early estimates for 2009 show an increase in online donations of 46% from 2008. Facebook/YouTube/MySpace Comments and Twitter Mentions. Tags: Blogging Facebook Mobile Technology MySpace Online Fundraising ROI (Return on Investment) Social Media Twitter YouTube. Online Donations.

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

I wanted to get excited about the Force.com platform on Facebook , but I just couldn’t. “Facebook? I enjoyed most of the opening keynote, but a too-long segment around Neil Young’s souped-up energy efficient car (shown below right) dragged on and on. Like a solution in search of a problem. Wha…?&#

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JUNE 10, 2008

It peaked my interest as part of my continued coverage of Facebook Apps for Good. By planting cute little (virtual) fruit plants with your Facebook friends you can help make the world a greener place! Facebook users start by either sending plants to their friends or by accepting plants from their friends.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Facebook: facebook.com/womenforwomen. Following that, Women for Women International moved on WordPress, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter throughout 2008-2010. Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and the Notes from the Field WordPress blog. Name: Lauren Shopp || lshopp@womenforwomen.org. Title: Multimedia/Online Coordinator.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

That said, the best practices below are based on Nonprofit Tech for Good’s experience using Twitter almost daily since 2008. Of the 53% of nonprofits that spend money on social advertising, only 17% invest in Twitter Ads compared to 97% who spend on Facebook Ads and 47% on Instagram Ads, according to the Open Data Project.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 30, 2011

Similar to Myspace and Facebook in 2007 and 2008, there’s seemingly a geographic difference between Foursquare and Gowalla users. Gowalla may not get the online buzz that Foursquare does, but where I live it’s more popular than Foursquare.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 6, 2009

DIOSA Communications has been offering social media webinars for nonprofits since February 2008, but the content of the webinars and the time schedule mostly accommodate nonprofits in the United States. February 11: How Nonprofit Organizations Can Successfully Use Facebook Pages and YouTube. Approximately 20 charities in the U.K.,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

January 4, 2008 Some interesting things are happening in Web2.0 There has been quite the dustup, started by Facebook kicking Richard Scoble off, because he’d violated the Facebook terms of service. Because of a script that scraped names and email addresses from Facebook, called Plaxo Pulse. 2 admin 01.04.08

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2010

They move with you to The Next Big Thing i.e., from MySpace to Facebook to Twitter to Foursquare. Then in September 2006 Facebook made the move to open their community to everyone (before you had to have a “ edu&# e-mail address to use Facebook). I was very reluctant to move over to Facebook. It was ugly.

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DECEMBER 10, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology LinkedIn suits up December 10, 2007 LinkedIn, the serious MBA wielding brother to the Facebook fratboy and the MySpace rockergrrl, is really putting on the suit now. It’s an interesting strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Though Facebook had gone public nine months previous, Facebook Groups were only just beginning to be used as community-building tools by nonprofits and Facebook Pages didn’t exist yet. In June 2007, I presented my first social media training to a small group of nonprofits in Lowell, MA. Find your competitors the Web.

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JULY 18, 2011

Digital Oxytocin: How Trust Keeps Facebook, Twitter Humming | Fast Company : "The most surprising takeaway from the recent Pew Research Center study, 'Social Networking Sites and Our Lives,' wasn't that 80% of Americans regularly use the Internet or that 60% of Web users have a social network account--double the number in 2008, with the vast majority (..)

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JANUARY 11, 2011

Ten years ago there was no Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. But now over 300 million people log-in to Facebook daily, Twitter supports over 50 million tweets per day, and 2 billion videos are watched every day on YouTube. Essentially it allows you to support a cause through your activity on Tiwtter (and soon to come Facebook).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Creating Video Content : 15 Hours Weekly. As a starting point, all nonprofits should be investing time and resources in the “Big Three”: Facebook , Twitter , and YouTube. Once your nonprofit’s Facebook page has been created, it requires no more than three to five hours a week on average to maintain.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

Since I already was a facebook status addict, once I learned that I could basically make twitter my one-stop status shop (put it in my blog, on facebook, wherever I wanted) that seemed to make sense to me. in general, which includes Twitter, Facebook, and others – with the goal of crafting a strategy. 1 trackback } Web 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

There are more than 65 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices and that number grows daily. In 2008, over two trillion text messages were sent worldwide. In 2008, over two trillion text messages were sent worldwide. The Web and how people use it is transforming quickly.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping October 1, 2007 I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. I have been having curmudgeonly thoughts about social networks in general.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Pencils of Promise (PoP) was founded in October 2008 to help build safe and healthy learning environments for young children worldwide. People naturally form connections through interactions on social media platforms like Twitter, Discord, Instagram, and Facebook. The answer, simply, is to give people what they want!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology WeAreMedia Project August 13, 2008 Yet another great NTEN project is happening, spearheaded by Beth Kanter, to develop a Social Media toolkit for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2011

There’s a lot of Google+ euphoria right now and postulations of Google+ being a Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn killer. That said, I’d do it on this blog, but to this day I can not find a simple way to add buttons (Facebook Share, Twitter Retweet, Google +1, etc.) Make a commitment to diversifying your brand online!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 8, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Update on social network portability January 8, 2008 Last week, I covered the Richard Scoble dust-up.

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Care2

JUNE 13, 2009

60) Search « Converting New Activists into Donors | Main | Five Tips to Engaging New Online Activists » Thursday Jun 11 2009 How Sticky is Facebook? Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 01:28PM | by Allyson Kapin Facebook is the 5th most trafficked site in the United States. Do you think Facebook is sticky?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants July 27, 2008 This week, it is my pleasure to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. at 1:15 pm links for 2008-07-28 - Kevin Bondelli’s Youth Vote Blog 07.28.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

June 10, 2008 Today, someone on the progressive exchange list asked about a tool called Rapleaf. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), I don’t know whether to be sad or proud that RapLeaf finds only my Facebook profile and no demos. What is public? 2 admin 06.11.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My iPhone 3G August 12, 2008 I once joined the “iPhone non-buyers&# group on Facebook. I swore up and down I wouldn’t get one.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) Facebook has quite the motivation to keep people on Facebook, and keep the eyeballs there, because of their revenue model, which is ad-based.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Beth Kanter digs deep to try and figure out how to pull RSS content into Facebook I review Facebook’s new ad platform. I’m a real fan of Craigslist. Katya gives us a “Craigslist&# of social marketing principals. Good stuff! for writing one-page fact sheets.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 24, 2014

Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, etc.) Beth Kanter, the nonprofit social media guru, pointed out in 2008 that social media takes time. Not much has changed since 2008. If that’s the case for your organization, here are some realities you should be aware of before you ask them to take on that new social media channel.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

According to a November 2011 study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project , 66% of adult Internet users are using a social networking site, up from 30% in 2008. Social media networks like Facebook and Twitter enable organizations to connect with an audience through fans and followers. Keep Your Audience Engaged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2012

On Facebook and via Twitter and in petitions from MoveOn, Change.org and Care2.com, On a personal note, I come from a small town in Western Pennsylvania, where “people cling to their guns” as President Obama clumsily stated in the 2008 campaign.

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Care2

MAY 3, 2011

Newsflash: Your website doesn’t matter and your Facebook friends don’t care! This was true for Obama’s 2008 campaign for President, and remains true for most, if not all, nonprofits raising money online. Email remains the primary driver of online donations.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

60) Search « Email Is Most Popular for a Reason: Its the Strongest Performing | Main | Join WVU for Integrated Marketing Degree Information Session » Wednesday Feb 06 2008 Worldwide Protest Organized on Facebook Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 10:43AM | by Caitlin Ochs Need more proof of the organizing power of social networks?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Get ready to throw out the book on promoting Facebook Causes. From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. How did they do it? And now to the interview.

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