Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

I think that Twitter is, in many ways, a harbinger of the future – I think eventually, a lot of things that happen between people over the net will work a lot like twitter, even if it’s not actually twitter – social networks carrying short snippets of people’s thoughts, ideas and events.

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Twitter Nonprofit Demographics Open Source 100

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

As I mentioned in my post about " extra-organizational activists" , there are bloggers out there who would love to raise money for your cause: Beth Kanter raised $800 for the Sharing Foundation using the ChipIn widget plus her blog , social networks, Flickr and video in 26 days. Why not ask them? 70% have contributed to a campaign.

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Blogger Causes Support Nicaragua 41

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Facebook’s grant will encourage users of the social network to learn more about service opportunities through ServiceNation’s Facebook Page and connect with MyNation, a new, online social-networking community on ServiceNation.org being launched in preparation for the first National Day of Service on September 11, 2009.

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Nptech Social Media Ning Media 91

Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

USAID should develop an online social networking community for young adults interested in international development. Disaster Response. For example, a 25-year-old could see what average benefits would have been for their demographic had they been born in 1925 rather than 1984 and retired in 1970 rather than 2034.

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Ideas Share Disaster Government 47

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

I don’t know if we’d have welcomed a male passenger we only knew through social networking. Or, more recently, how the native population in Avatar are connected to one another through a planetary-wide nervous system. Also, we were two women undertaking a long journey through some pretty uninhabited area.

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Twitter El Paso Phoenix Haiti 36