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What OpenSocial Means

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

Separately, MedBiquitous’s Learning Experience Working Group has completed a draft of its first profile, Virtual Patients, and has started work on its second profile, titled Human Patient Simulators, Mannequins and Task Trainers. This profile will promote standardization in how simulators report over the Internet to databases.

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Four Reasons Why Nonprofits Should Question Facebook’s Integrity, Longevity, and ROI (Return on Investment)

Nonprofit Tech for Good

We’re building nonprofits, businesses, and brands around our Facebook communities, and yet every couple of months we wake up to new changes (made primarily to benefit Facebook’s revenue model) that we have to figure out for ourselves and scramble around. Event invitations are tied to personal profiles, not Pages.

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How To Put Social Fundraising On Steroids: Community Giving Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Case Foundation was a pioneer in designing and implementing social giving contests like the Case Foundation’s America’s Giving Challenge in 2007 and 2009 which inspired many nonprofits to experiment and incorporate these practices as illustrated above. Enter online fundraising contests.

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Greater Washington Give to the Max Day Training Event

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They checked out the donors’s fb profile, and they could tell that she was in their key target demographic for new $$ donations. When staff research her in their donor database, they discovered she had attended our big fundraiser in Feb. as a first time donor.

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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

Have Fun - Do Good

He was recently named 2009 Young Professional of the Year by the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. What we do here in Oakland, and throughout the Bay Area, is we work with inner city companies that not only have a scalable model, but also have a social responsibility aspect built into their business model.

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Postage Savings Through Analytics

Connection Cafe

If so, look at your acquisition lists from 2008/2009 then calculate your average18- or 24-month long-term donor value by list. (Be By using a statistical approach, we can eliminate "bottom-feeding" prospects by creating a cloning model to identify the profile(s) of valuable donors. Now, that’s smart mailing.