Nonprofit Tech for Good
AUGUST 7, 2013
Nonprofits were the early adopters of social networks. The were active on Myspace, YouTube, and creating Facebook Groups long before most of the companies that are often praised for being the pioneers of social media. One of the reasons was that social networks were free to join and lacked monthly fees.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JULY 28, 2010
Social networking communities are migrant communities. They move with you to The Next Big Thing i.e., from MySpace to Facebook to Twitter to Foursquare. Social media skeptics often say that it’s a waste of time to utilize social networking sites because they are here today, and then gone tomorrow.
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Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 2, 2009
As I spent the Thanksgiving weekend pondering gratitude, MySpace made the top of my list of things to be grateful for. If it were not for MySpace, my professional life no doubt would be much less fulfilling. And for that, I will be eternally grateful to MySpace and the “Nonprofit Organizations&# MySpace community.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JULY 16, 2012
The internet was once considered a great equaliser, a platform that could bring strangers together, even across racial boundaries. But internet users of the same race have recently begun clustering on certain social media websites. Nonprofits like Invisible Children and To Write Love on Her Arms were born from Myspace.
NetWits
MAY 21, 2008
With thousands of jobs posted on the Internet, many organizations are asking how they can attract highly qualified candidates. One creative solution is social networking. LinkedIn® users create profiles and build their networks by inviting friends and past and present colleagues to join their social networks.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JANUARY 3, 2012
I took some much-needed time off in December and was able to spend some down time reflecting on the future of social media and mobile technology for the nonprofit sector. One of the simplest ways to significantly increase your nonprofit’s return on investment (ROI) from using social media is to learn basic HTML. Learn basic HTML.
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. My colleague Amy wrote in a Stanford Social Innovation Review column , "The debate around social media and the Internet in general as a leveling force is still heated from all sides.
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