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What is private? What is public?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), Be Helpful.

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Twitter and Nonprofits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But right now, at this moment, twitter’s demographic is both tiny and highly nonrepresentative of the population of the world. If your organization’s mission will be greatly benefited by making connections with the twitter demographic then, yeah, twitter makes tons of sense. And so what on earth does that really mean?

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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.) Friendster, Orkut, Hi5 and LinkedIn have very different demographic and geographic reaches. And the language of these APIs are standard HTML and Javascript.

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.)

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Purchasing Nonprofit Software: A Fundraiser’s Guide

NonProfit Hub

You can share both your Facebook and Twitter feeds on your site while giving your donors the opportunities to share their donations and involvement. BidPal’s software offers an easy-to-use event website that will help with your brand awareness, event promotion, and social media integration. Why We Love It. Their mobile bidding app!

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Tools Galore in Online Communications - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

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!" There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not.

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Great reads from around the web on October 11th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Surprisingly, tech did not play a huge role.

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