Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Then, in the late 2000’s nonprofits embraced social networking sites, first Myspace and YouTube, then Facebook and Twitter. If the donation is made via Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube, you’ll also have the opportunity to cultivate donors directly via Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Facebook Fundraising Tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Facebook: facebook.com/taprootfoundation. Megan: MySpace was probably our first introduction to social media, but not sure the year we created the account. Megan: We currently have accounts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Jumo, YouTube and Vimeo. Website: www.taprootfoundation.org. Blog: taprootfoundation.org/blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 3, 2012

Blogger, LinkedIn and Myspace all launched in 2003. Personally, most days I love social media and its ability to foster social good and create online buzz – and the tool sets of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. The spectrum of expertise and passion for social media swings wide.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2011

Finally, Google+ Entity Profiles will launch after the release of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits , so please consider this blog post a supplement to the book. There’s a lot of Google+ euphoria right now and postulations of Google+ being a Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn killer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 2, 2015

In 2005 Facebook was only open to college students and professors, Twitter didn’t exist, and the iPhone was still in concept mode. They began actively using Myspace in 2004 and YouTube in 2005 – years before the Fortune 500 companies. Nonprofits pioneered social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), premium services (WordPress themes, Flickr Pro, Facebook custom Tab generators, etc.), Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. 4) Read more books. Reading books does that.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

That said, I often joke to friends that when I retire from online activism/communications I am going to open a print book and stationary store that serves martinis, plays Pandora, and offers free handwriting classes. Make new friends (Google+) and keep the old (Myspace). VIDEO: HTML All Writers Need to Know. Guaranteed.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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NTEN

JULY 7, 2011

Remember back when people said your nonprofit needed to be on MySpace? And then Facebook. Well, not MySpace.). Plus, the first 30 registrants get a free copy of their book! > It's true, Facebook may lose its importance one day. And Twitter. And now, probably, Google+. It's about innovation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Getting involved in a social network, whether it be something like Facebook or Myspace, or a content-connected social network like flickr or delicious (I’m starting to get used to writing that without the dots,) is pretty easy. I’m not bothering with MySpace, Orkut, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Similar to the early days of Myspace and its users mastering HTML hacks and widgets, Snapchat has an equally dedicated user base of young people that pride themselves on becoming skilled at Lenses, Filters, Stickers, and other Snapchat tips, tricks, and hacks. Do not make snap judgments about Snapchat. Do not be lame on Snapchat.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

This week's Ask Britt question comes from a friend who is helping a changemaker launch a new book. She asks (I'm paraphrasing): "How Do I Promote My Do-Good Book Online? Set up a virtual book tour I first heard about virtual book tours through Kevin Smokler. Here are a handful of ideas: 1. Flickr photo contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

She also just signed a book deal with the tentative title: How to be a Social Capitalist: winning with the currency of online communities. 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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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) are permeating our everyday lives: According to a San Francisco Chronicle article earlier this year, Facebook has outstripped Google as the main traffic source for big sites like MSN and Yahoo! Casey Golden, CEO, Small Act. Recently, I learned some amazing new ways in which social media (i.e.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

It was much more traffic than I would have ever thought possible, but thanks to the burgeoning “Nonprofit Organizations” communities that I had built on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, launching a blog was much easier in 2009 than it was when I tried and failed in 2004. As of last month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Allison Fine and I have been busy working on a book about how social media and connectedness is changing the way nonprofits are creating social change. Says Tom, "We don't talk about Facebook or Twitter. Social Media Explained View more presentations from kanter. Social media is described in terms of the mission, not the tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

That said, for those of you that have bought the book [Thank you!], You may also want to listen to a 30-minute radio interview I did about the book on May 17 which also discusses how social and mobile media has changed since the release of the book. At the time the book was written, mobile wallets hadn’t been launched yet.

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JULY 20, 2013

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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. But as Charlene Li and Josh Bernhoff point out in their new book it is important to think behind the new tool - and to ask the larger question - how do you evaluate new technologies as they enter the landscape?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Ben Rigby of Mobile Voter, and the folks from Rock the Vote have just written a new book, Mobilizing Generation 2.0: Could a local social change site knock off Facebook for the social networking webby? If you already have a presence on MySpace, check this out - causes has just launched an application at MySpace.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Turns out, unlike Facebook, or Myspace and such, the “Spock Bot&# makes pages for people without their knowing. So people who were in my gmail address book, and in Spock, got a request for trust from me, not knowing where it came from. I then decided, why not – let’s find out who else is on Spock.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

That said, for those of you that have bought the book [Thank you!], You may also want to listen to a 30-minute radio interview I did about the book on May 17 which also discusses how social and mobile media has changed since the release of the book. At the time the book was written, mobile wallets hadn’t been launched yet.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2008

Ask for a show of hands, who has heard of Myspace? Who has heard of Facebook? Urban League Facebook page ) We're so delighted that we decided to give away one more book! We'll pick six contributors randomly to receive a copy of Ben or Brian's awesome books. You'll get some people who know.).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

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. I was trying to parse the usefulness of the service under the original wording, and it seems like there wouldn’t be much. 2 admin 06.11.08

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2009

The organization is asking supporters to change their Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook avatars at 1:10 on Friday, March 6th to the "oneten" avatar. One of the events listed is an exhibition of photos at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris from the book Celebrating Women by Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed in October 2007).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Congrats to Allison Fine for the Terry McAdam Book Award. Jason Z at DIA bog writes about the launch of " Make It Your Own: Case Foundation's Experiment in Citizen-Centric Philanthropy " which includes both MySpace and Facebook. Holly Ross points to Robin Good's Beginner Guide to Facebook. NpTech Talk.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

It was much more traffic than I would have ever thought possible, but thanks to the burgeoning “Nonprofit Organizations” communities that I had built on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, launching a blog was much easier in 2009 than it was when I tried and failed in 2004. As of last month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

The Social Technographics concept is discussed in depth in Charlene Li and Josh Bernhoff's new book " Groundswell " that I have been reading over the past two weeks since it arrived from Amazon. It is a valuable way to think how your nonprofit's target audience fits into the social media landscape.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Will people give through Facebook? Is that MySpace friend an activist? An article in the Washington Post notes that "fewer than 1% of those who have joined a cause have actually donated money through [the Facebook Causes] application." Lots of buzzword bingo. Lots of new vendors. Lots of tools. Few experts. Few owners.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

On the day that I submitted the final manuscript of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits to McGraw-Hill, Facebook launched Timeline for Pages. There was no time to get in any more final edits and I feared that the book would be terribly out of date by the time it was released. and Web 3.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

I get to use sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace for a living! The third month would involve a lot of content creation in the form of blogs, articles, press releases, e-books or whatever else they found to be lucrative in the research phase. Tell me about your job My job is pretty amazing.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

This age group is increasingly on Facebook , MySpace and Twitter -- more ’mainstream’ social networks.“ “ According to a recent study, the fastest growing demographic on Facebook is people aged 55+. LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace). Facebook : Fastest growing demographic is 55+.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

They even created a Facebook application. We started slowly with the MySpace page , and we started in earnest with Flickr. MySpace is, but Facebook isn’t. We get so much spam on MySpace, whereas on Flickr and Facebook and the blog we never get spam. The facebook thing was very organic. It depends.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

This age group is increasingly on Facebook , MySpace and Twitter -- more ’mainstream’ social networks.“ “ According to a recent study, the fastest growing demographic on Facebook is people aged 55+. LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace). Facebook : Fastest growing demographic is 55+.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

, YouTube , Google Maps , DIGG , TypePad , MySpace , Facebook , Plaxo, or Salesforce , then youve likely run across an API. Another popular implementation of APIs is the Plaxo address book synchronization service, which allows you to aggregate your various address books into one database, using Plaxos API.

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