Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

At least the content-focused social networks, like del.icio.us, or flickr, or my personal favorite, our own Social Source Commons , there is some there there. A new social networking site, called “Quetchup&# spammed (without permission) the contacts of people who signed up for the site. And, yet another login and password.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Flickr Photo by Maurice. I went straight to the section on Flickr Sobell House is an Oxford based hospice. It uses Flickr to host all of its photos. ???It???s Flickr builds a community of photo users,??? At any rate, it is a good example of how NOT to spam the Flickr community. says fundraiser Kevin Game.

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Social Media Benefit Media Flickr 50

Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

While spam is worse than it’s ever been, email continues to be the key to successful online fundraising programs – that’s a bit of surprise. I kept worrying that email would be replaced by something else – RSS feeds, mobile, IM or some other form of communication we had not yet experienced.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

While spam is worse than it’s ever been, email continues to be the key to successful online fundraising programs – that’s a bit of surprise. I kept worrying that email would be replaced by something else – RSS feeds, mobile, IM or some other form of communication we had not yet experienced.

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