The Verge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The company confirmed this week that it’s testing a new feature that encourages users to post and share news in miniature social networks focused on small geographical areas. In recent years, the company has put more emphasis on private and public groups, as opposed to more open sharing between a user’s widest circle of friends.

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The Verge

JUNE 15, 2021

That’s the bet behind IRL, a young social network that has been quietly growing over the past year and just attracted an eye-popping amount of money to take on Facebook. According to Shafi, the goal is to become “a super messaging social network” over time. “We Image: IRL. IRL CEO and co-founder Abraham Shafi.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

That’s the premise underpinning Polywork , a new professional social network founded by Lystable/Kalo founder, Peter Johnson. Polywork also lets users send collaboration requests to others on the network — aka, its version of LinkedIn’s in-mail. It’s announcing a $3.5 Er, good luck with that! .

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The Verge

JULY 16, 2021

An app is in development, though, as are plans to make the platform open to everyone. Sternberg says RSS is a problem, even, because it doesn’t allow for a social network to grow in one app. “I A screenshot of the Racket interface. Racket limits people to nine minutes of recording, which right now, they can only do on the web.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

New York-based MyPlace , a social network designed to help friends share their private homes, has raised $5.8 Since then, the platform has grown into a social network used by thousands of people in 86 countries. Since then, the platform has grown into a social network used by thousands of people in 86 countries.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

There have been countless studies about the damaging effects of social media on mental health, particularly on teens. And yet, most of us just can’t quit social networking. Enter Inpathy , a new kind of social network — a “healthy” one. The end goal is to bring more wellness to the social network world.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Bluesky, Twitter’s decentralized social networking effort, has announced its first major update since 2019. The report covers how these systems handle key social network elements like discoverability, moderation, and privacy, as well as how services based on them can scale up, interoperate, and make money.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2012

At a time when Facebook was primarily used by college-educated individuals from the middle and upper classes, Myspace was open, diverse, creative, and seemingly the epitome of an online grassroots community. The birth of social networking on a mass scale was messy and chaotic, and at times fear and paranoia ran amok.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

I identified a trend forming with social networking, and set up our very first profile. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Every full time staffer we have on the Emerging Media team has been paid for by raising money on social networks. Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Hopefully from here on out any new social network that launches will learn from the mistakes made by Myspace, Facebook, Google+, and Pinterest and launch simultaneously with both personal and business/nonprofit accounts available for individuals and brands. It also allows you to stop having to use a personal profile as a brand (i.e.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. Launched on May 5, 2003, LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. Their use of the social network is mostly inconsistent and without strategy – the 10 best practices below are meant to change that. LinkedIn Pages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 29, 2012

That said, here are five common mistakes that nonprofits are making in their online fundraising campaigns: 1) No social networking icons/pitches on the “Thank You” landing page. The “Donate Now” process of many nonprofits, however, still seems to be stuck in 2005. ” What a tragic lost opportunity!

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Peanut , the maker of a social networking app for women, is entering into the investing space with today’s launch of a microfund called StartHER. “Peanut’s StartHER fund opens the door to founders looking for that early funding. says Peanut CEO Michelle Kennedy, in a statement about the fund’s launch.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 29, 2024

While organic social media fundraising may not yield immediate financial gains, it offers something more valuable – a community of engaged supporters who genuinely believe in your cause. 100s of the world’s top nonprofits trust GoodUnited to help grow their mission on social networks – including Susan G.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Later he created Peach , a pop-up social network that remained beloved by its users far after its brief moment in the spotlight faded. With projects with Loot, we can begin to see something new coming into focus: an open-source … something with potentially broad appeal.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

The open rate of text messages is over 90 percent, since those who sign up tend to be your most committed supporters, so making the effort to promote your group texting campaign(s) and build your mobile list now could prove to be extremely valuable in years to come as the popularity of group text messaging continues to skyrocket.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. It’s a throwback from social networking circa 2006.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2017

Second, the popularity of social networking is steady and continues to spread globally, but messaging apps such as WhatsApp, LINE, and Snapchat are emerging as powerful digital communities. Email and social media are the first apps opened. The arc of success for digital fundraising has just begun. Source: ReportLinker.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Based in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins. Prominently feature your “Donate” button, e-newsletter opt-in, and social network icons. that your nonprofit uses. The button should be large and colorful so that it is obvious and not easily missed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2011

QR Codes are two-dimensional bar code images that when scanned by a camera on a smartphone open a link to a website, send a SMS, or dial a phone number. If you haven’t noticed QR Codes yet, after you read this post and browse the QR Codes on Flickr you’re going to start to seeing them everywhere. So, what are they?

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TechSpot

AUGUST 2, 2024

According to the law, UIAAS personnel will "patrol" open social networks, applications, websites, and even the Dark Web to identify crime perpetrators and detect potentially unlawful activities. Read Entire Article

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Based in the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko lauds Threads’ entry into the decentralized social media space, saying the move will make Mastodon — the open source Twitter/X rival — “a far more attractive option.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Consumer interest in open source, decentralized social networking isn’t something that was only reflected in news headlines over the past year, it’s also apparent in the financials behind Mastodon.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

I’m a fairly active user of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and some other social networking sites, and have been for years now. I certainly have followed and friended lots of organizations on these networks (particularly on Twitter, but also some more personally relevant to me on Facebook.)

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Five months after its launch in July, Meta’s social network Threads is now finally available to people living in the European Union. In a post on Threads, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta is opening up Threads to more countries in Europe. “Today we’re opening Threads to more countries in Europe.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

Buffer enables social media managers to schedule posts on social networks throughout the day and evening. Using emoji on social media can increase engagement and when used in email subject lines, it can increase open rates. Open Data Project :: nptechforgood.com/open-data-project.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. With one billion active monthly users, Instagram is a very powerful social network used by nonprofits worldwide. People had joined the social network primarily for the visual experience – not to read. Post Eye-catching Photos. Write Good Captions.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

keeping out of spam folders, increasing open rates, and click through rates takes work, and tinkering. They’re more shareable on social networks, and information is easily disseminated through infographics and equivalents. Continually optimizing your email blast campaigns should be at the top of any nonprofit’s to do list.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

(As a side note, Instagram announced earlier this month that creators on its platform will soon be able to create their own NFTs and sell them directly to fans, both on and off the visual social network.). Image Credits: Revel (opens in a new window). Revel is a cross between a social network and a marketplace.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2013

38% of email is now opened on a mobile device , with 33% for desktop and 29% for webmail. Most Social Media Will Soon Be Viewed on Mobile Devices. As of September 2012, more email is read using a mobile email client than using a desktop email client (such as Outlook) or via webmail (such as Gmail).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

For mobile social networkers, Viddy is a must-download. TwtPoll enables nonprofits to create polls that can be shared on Twitter or any any other social network. into “Stories” that can then be easily shared on social media and embeded on websites and blogs. USTREAM :: ustream.tv.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The support page originally detailed how Twitter would automatically send users of its mobile apps to the AMP version of a page from links posted on the social network. Twitter has quietly rolled back its support for Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) on mobile, according to a support page spotted by SEO consultant Christian Oliveira.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Based in the U.K.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

Social enterprise is wide use in classes covering computer software and services. The application purports to claim the trademark “social enterprise” in five areas: computer software, business services, educational services, on-line software and social networking services.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Based in the U.K.,

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