Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

We engaged, asked questions, held competitions, discovered advertising and had a great time teaching the world about our cause and how to keep kids safe. I’ve observed this phenomenon on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Myspace, and Foursquare. We worked so hard to get to 5,000 and then we took off!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

There’s also been a bit of controversy around the Causes application specifically, due to it’s decision to abandon the MySpace platform and offer it’s application/services only to the Facebook community. You can read more about the MySpace/Facebook move here , here , and here.). Probably not 400,000.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

There's been a lot of discussion over the past week about Causes leaving MySpace and becoming a Facebook-only application. The access debate aside, the removal of Causes from MySpace where there are active communities of supporters means 'equal opportunity activism' is defined by only certain communities." read more.

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NetWits

JULY 10, 2012

Facebook has it’s roots in education. Once Facebook conquered colleges the now web-giant with more than 900 million active monthly users moved on to support high schools. Naturally, Facebook’s appeal reaches down into the earlier years of education because kids love connecting with friends. Master them first.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits. Posting more than one status update a day on Facebook. I am a big believer that less is more on Facebook. Like us on Facebook! Craziness! Make a donation!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Facebook: facebook.com/JointheFight. The 1 st tool was MySpace back in 2007. The tools I am currently using are Facebook, two Twitter accounts (one for National messaging via @PanCAN and one specifically for advocacy efforts via @Advocate4PanCAN), YouTube, LinkedIn, MySpace and Delicious. Website: pancan.org. gid=104492.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 11, 2010

I’m going to take a little chunk off of this, though, and ask some leading questions. How do you know which of your Facebook fans/Causes members are also a donors (separate from donations through Causes)? Can you follow the trail from tweet (or facebook status) to a donation? facebook scrm socialmedia twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Facebook: facebook.com/humanesociety. MySpace, back when it was cool. We’re using Facebook primarily, Twitter for feedback, dabbling in Foursquare, and starting our LinkedIn presence. We don’t use it like we use Facebook, for advocacy, fundraising, and relationship building. Title: Director of Emerging Media.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

For the last week, there’s been a rich discussion about Causes and the way that it abruptly, without much notice, left MySpace (deleting all of the related content, connections, communications, etc.). (To If you have any questions please contact hello@ideablob.com. ideablob.com allows users to post business ideas.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

MySpace has become the ghetto of the digital landscape,” Ms. You’ve probably heard of Facebook ; you may even have set up a group or a fan page there for your organization. You’ve probably heard of Facebook ; you may even have set up a group or a fan page there for your organization. Did you consider MySpace ?

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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." " Here are the questions to think about before setting it up: 1) What???s 2) Is Facebook the right network for you? re not in Bebo, MySpace, Orkut, or other network? Are you sure they???re

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

For the last week, there’s been a rich discussion about Causes and the way that it abruptly, without much notice, left MySpace (deleting all of the related content, connections, communications, etc.). (To If you have any questions please contact hello@ideablob.com. ideablob.com allows users to post business ideas.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

The 2011 Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report provides some incredible data on how 11K+ nonprofits are using social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and others. The study also answers the biggest question on everyone's mind. Facebook is the most popular commercial social network for nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Facebook: facebook.com/nationalwildlife. Back in 2006 when I joined the organization we had a MySpace page with 25 friends. From there I signed us up for various Facebook groups and profiles and continued experimenting sites like Change.org and Care2. Website: www.nwf.org. Blog: www.wildlifepromise.org. Twitter: twitter.com/nwf.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Facebook Pages. is a component of a new advertising service that Facebook is offering to encourage brands (or nonprofit organizations, personalities (like Ranger Rick) or causes) to promote themselves through their social networks. How is this different from Facebook Groups some nonprofits may be asking?

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See3

JULY 17, 2006

read more | digg story Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up [.] read more | digg story Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up [.] Take a look.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2008

I "met" or rather connected with Tony from Fern Thai through Facebook (I think). Tony was kind enough to help promote the America's Giving Challenge to his community on MySpace. The question is about building a community around your blog. One quick question I???d d like to ask is how long you???ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

Pete Cashmore of Mashable has a post that asks an interesting question: Facebook, MySpace (MySpace reviews), LinkedIn (LinkedIn reviews), Digg and Twitter are often compared in terms of features, but which one has the most generous users?

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Robert Weiner

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

We are purchasing Net Community for some of the other things it offers, and we're trying to decide if we should pursue social networking through it or use Facebook, etc. What we see as a benefit is the thought that perhaps using the Net Community, it might be a little more professional than having a group on FB or MySpace.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

It's the latest question and answer platform to have caught the attention of the blogosphere and techie hipsters. I have to admit, I've been slow to "get it" and I really have spent more time lurking and browsing questions while reading others’ experiences and impressions. Nonprofits should also be asking questions on Quora.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

The big question nonprofits ask is, how useful is social media? In an attempt to help nonprofits answer that question, Idealware , in partnership with NOI , recently released " The Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide.". Less then 40% think using MySpace to reach new supporters is helpful. Other tangible results include:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

My question: Network for Good's recent Wired Fundraiser report talks about "superactivists" or the nonprofit equal of Seth Godin's Evangelists. Ben Greenberg from Physicians for Human Rights asked a couple of really great questions. Watch out for Google's Facebook killing strategy, OpenSocial.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

It was a tough question, but someone had to answer it: Idealist’s Scott Stadum! Do you provide different content or appeals to your Twitter followers than to your Facebook group? How you use Twitter is going to be different than how you would use Facebook Pages. Do you track how people find your organization?

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Care2

JULY 22, 2010

One of the biggest questions nonprofits have been asking for the past couple of years, is what benchmarks should they be using for social media? According to 1200 nonprofits surveyed: Facebook is the number one used commercial social network by nonprofits. 86% said that they have a presence on Facebook, a 16% increase from 2009.

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NTEN

AUGUST 17, 2009

You get to ask the questions! > Share your questions, stories, and concerns with your nonprofit tech colleagues. Tags: broadband causes events facebook nonprofit technology NPTech NTEN nten members. Join your NTEN colleagues ( tomorrow! ) for this free and members-only Q&A session. > Learn more and RSVP. >

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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

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Continuing on last week's discussion about Causes leaving MySpace, TechSoup's own Amy has written an interesting guest post on Sean Stannard-Stockton's Tactical Philanthropy blog. She gets at some of the big questions nonprofits should be asking about the tools we're using. It's definitely worth the read.

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Care2

MAY 18, 2010

Check out any nonprofit Web site these days, and in addition to an About Us page, you're likely to see icons for Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. Now, some organizations are great at social, while most are just terrible, so I question whether a mean average applies. But does social media really work for fundraising?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2007

I'm still looking for the best places to find numbers on Social Networking sites (like number of users and growth -- I'd love a chart or graph of comparisons to MySpace, Facebook, and Linked In. The chat above is from Alexa and is shows the growth of page views for facebook versus myspace over the past three years.

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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! Which brings us to an important question: Who should build that strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

I'm going to riff on Ivan's advice, " You Don't Have To Be Everywhere" (like Mastercard) After an organization has identified an audience, objective, and strategy, a question that often comes up: What social networks should we establish our presence on? But, it isn't a black and white question in my mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

There was a great question about social networking and representing one's organization posted on the Social Networking Affinity Group at NTEN by K.E: " My question is, are the organizations doing this, like TNC, using personal usernames or organization usernames? pretty much anything goes on MySpace

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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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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Until you master fundraising on your own site, you SHOULD NOT spend loads of time fundraising on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. This begs an important question, how do you get more folks to visit and donate via your site? Your website is still your home base online. or 64.1%) comes via nonprofit websites.&#

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See3

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

In today’s NY Times is an article about Facebook and the difficulty of getting your data removed. So to really delete my entire life on Facebook would mean deleting data from many individual accounts. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today!

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

The million-dollar question you should ask is not only, “How can we keep our current supporters engaged?”, If we in the nonprofit community are going to succeed at reigniting the growth in these numbers, we are going to have to anticipate the needs of the next generation of donors. Check out Blackbaud Labs to see these ideas in action.

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Care2

JULY 29, 2010

Give them helpful resources and answer questions they have about your issue or organization. Here is the short list of the social media sites that are included in our analysis: Facebook. (Be strategic on this one - no one likes to be treated like an ATM machine). StumbleUpon. LiveJournal.

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