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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones.

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HOW TO: Launch a Group Text Messaging Campaign for Your Nonprofit for Free

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They were getting creative and pioneering MySpace in 2005 and Facebook in 2006 long before corporate brands and universities, but that hasn’t been the case with mobile technology. Your TextMark functions as a Short Code and should ideally match your website and social networking profile URLs.

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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.) Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets. at 1:15 pm Open Social ! Be Helpful.

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What is private? What is public?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), I don’t know whether to be sad or proud that RapLeaf finds only my Facebook profile and no demos. I was trying to parse the usefulness of the service under the original wording, and it seems like there wouldn’t be much. 2 admin 06.11.08

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Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Signing up for new ones, making profiles, adding friends, adding applications, etc. At least the content-focused social networks, like del.icio.us, or flickr, or my personal favorite, our own Social Source Commons , there is some there there. They own my profile, and whatever time I spend adding content. at 9:46 am Web 2.0

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A few new social apps.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today I got an email about Mypacis - a word play on myspace and peace? Here's the description The site is an open source, integrated and localized social network which "promotes peace by linking people", putting Web 2.0 I went ego surfing and it turned up my myspace profile information. Here's the link.

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Web 2.0 Experiments, snafus and stumbles

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Turns out, unlike Facebook, or Myspace and such, the “Spock Bot&# makes pages for people without their knowing. Creepy part: do I really want to know what’s on my ex-girlfriend’s MySpace page? 2 trackbacks } Change » Blog Archive » Profile aggregators 12.18.07 tool to jump in. What a concept.

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