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.

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Social Media Media Management Social 228

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Steve MacLaughlin, publisher of Connections For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using social media and social networking in their organizations. Is that MySpace friend an activist? Hope from the Hype So why does social networking matter? Social networking matters.

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Social Network Network Create Strategy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. You already know Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn et al???now now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. Each of the panelists shared a brief overview of the current social networking projects.

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Chicago Social Network Network Web 50

NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

Your principal database – what you might call your “database of record” – also needs to reach out in real time into the systems in which your constituents interact and network. Through the use of SOAP and language-agnostic Web services, APIs are evolving and becoming much more robust, while simultaneously becoming much simpler.

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Integration Personal API Blackbaud 105

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Google has a number of partners, including social network sites like LinkedIn, Friendster and Ning, as well as Salesforce, which does have very interesting implications given the increasing use of Salesforce in the nonprofit sector. And the language of these APIs are standard HTML and Javascript. OpenSocial is a set of APIs.

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Ning API Open Source Social Network 100

NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Micro-philanthropy -- that ambiguous term that refers to all things socially networked, small-scale, and charitable -- will have matured. Nonprofits are spicing up their social media communications strategy with language and informalities that may turn-off older supporters and major donors. This is a flawed assumption.

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Money Raise Contest Social Media 53

Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

You’ll land on Braincake , their social networking site for girls, parents, and teachers focused on math and science education. So how do you design for that kind of maturity, and for kids who want a MySpace? We didn’t want to build MySpace. That’s what they do—find cool stuff on the internet and send it around.

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Interview Museum Teen Myspace 20