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.) And the language of these APIs are standard HTML and Javascript. OpenSocial means, basically, they can port to a whole lot fewer of them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Today, I happened to see HSUS that staffer Carrie Lewis posted a note on her profile and it showed up on my friends feed on Facebook. Here's some points: This is a great example of multi-channel marketing with integrating social media along with other more "traditional" internet tools like email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

You already know Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn et al???now What is the best mix of content between social networking profiles and main web site page? How do increase internet literacy with communities? What type of language should i use? I'm live blogging this panel from the Making Media Connections Conference.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

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. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

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. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Steven Cliff's Notes - Saving Internet 1.0 The two top posts of the week were about Twitter and MySpace, both Web2.0 The other big story in Kikono was Best Practices in MySpace pointed to by Solidariti blog. A quick trip through nonprofit profiles in MySpace, one sees two different aesthetics - ugly and beautiful.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 21, 2010

As someone who studied political science and has long believed in the power of the Internet to create positive social change, I am quite disturbed by what I am witnessing on this Facebook Page and others like it. Lessons learned thus far: 1) If they use hate or racist language, report/block them. You have to weed out the hate.

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