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. Just send the company your e-mail list and tell it what social networking sites those on your list are using, their demographics, the numbers of friends they have, how many widgets they’re using, even their interests. What is public?

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" “ According to a recent study, the fastest growing demographic on Facebook is people aged 55+.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" That lead me to hunt and gather demographic information on the various sites and where I found that chart.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" “ According to a recent study, the fastest growing demographic on Facebook is people aged 55+.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Jeremiah Owyang has an excellent post called " Why you need to have a strategy NOW before you make a Facebook Fan page." 2) Is Facebook the right network for you? re not in Bebo, MySpace, Orkut, or other network? Do you know the Facebook demographics? (I The features of Facebook pages are limited, it???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

They were all on Facebook (turned their noses up at Myspace), watch YouTube videos, and use IM applications, with more 20 people on their IM lists. You want to use these tools to keep up on others, in a good way, of course, and to let them keep up on you,??? Facebook, for instance ??? t the right tool for that job,???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Perhaps you need to look existing secondary research on demographics and characteristics of users (see this post for some places to start finding free information). Anyway, I like the tool that lets you check out a bunch of social networks at once to see if your name has been taken. Recently, I read about twitter squatters.(Remember

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

They've built a profile tool over at the blog that lets you plug in some very general demographic information and get a summary of the percentage of profile types that fit that demographic. I plugged in my demographics and I'm most likely to be an inactive! created a quiz.

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MAY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Source: How To Reach Babyboomers With Social Technology A new report from Forrester Research on the demographics of social media use or social technographics also discovered that Baby Boomers that more than 60% of boomers actively consume socially created content like blogs, videos, podcasts, and forums. by Beth Kanter. by Beth Kanter.

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AUGUST 7, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Tips for Promoting a Cause on Facebook If you build it, will they come?

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JULY 24, 2007

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

But a shifting communications environment and changing donor demographics could render those best practices ineffective at best, and obsolete at worst, as early as 2012. When it comes to preparing for the shifting communications environment and donor demographics, your employees are your biggest asset. Four years ago, web 2.0

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JULY 26, 2007

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JULY 17, 2007

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MARCH 27, 2008

Another point Brian made was that perhaps Facebook and Myspace are not for your organization. So, if you use the right tools through LinkedIn, you can get that much closer to a donation–so I’d say that is a better path. In other words, to formalize that relationship is a great idea.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

The first full session I was able to catch was “Tools Galore in Online Communications” moderated by Netsquared’s Amy Sample Ward with speakers Natalie Foster , Director of New Media for the Democratic National Committee , Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach and Laura Quinn, Executive Director of Idealware.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

She talked about how online social networks mirror off-line social dynamics, and described the phenomenon of “white flight” from MySpace to Facebook. He quoted the famous Marshall McLuhan: “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” Facebook now has 200M users, the majority of whom are outside of the US.

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