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Ten Things Nonprofits May Not Know About MySpace [But I Wish They Did]

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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.

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HOW TO: Launch a Mobile Photo-Sharing Campaign for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They were on Myspace and organizing via Facebook Groups years before corporate brands, higher education, and broadcast and print media. That said, the community on Daily Booth has a lot of active teens. If your nonprofit works with teens and young people, this is a mobile photo-sharing community that you should definitely explore.

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New on SSIR: First and Foremost Know Your Community

Amy Sample Ward

As profiled in the New York Observer , Danah talked to the data uncovered in her four years of research on new media use in a presentation at the Personal Democracy Forum. MySpace has become the ghetto of the digital landscape,” Ms. Did you consider MySpace ? I believe we have, and so does Danah Boyd.

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MySpace and Nonprofits: A couple of articles on how-to

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A couple of good articles about how nonprofits are using myspace and some dos and don'ts this week. I have a myspace site but I haven't done any deep experimination. I set it up so I could help some friends with teens who are it and hopefully by the time my kids are teens there will be a different technology use pattern to master.)

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4 Signs Your Nonprofit Should Quit a Social Network

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good began as a “Nonprofit Organizations” Myspace Page in 2005. But time and mental space are precious commodities and as I have always said (though I rarely write in first-person), it’s better to manage a few profiles well than manage many profiles poorly. Pinterest did not make the cut.

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10 Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Innovation in online fundraising was driven by the release of new technology, such as email marketing services like MailChimp in 2001, the launch of WordPress ( a content management system now used by 44% of nonprofits worldwide ) in 2003, and social networking websites beginning with Myspace in 2005.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social networking requires commitment -- you can't set up a MySpace profile and then walk away. You have to approve new friend requests, respond to messages, post your latest action alerts, send out bulletins, keep your profile up-to-date, and more.