Posted in Uncategorized, tagged facebook, nonprofit, socialnetworking, takesalltypes, zuckerberg on March 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A New York nonprofit, Takes All Types, has announced a new program that will mobilize blood donors through Facebook, The New York Times reports.
For those who opt in, the system will send out alerts through Facebook — as well as by phone, fax, e-mail and text message — when their blood type is needed in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bethkanter, brianoberkirk, jeremiahowyang, jonathancoleman, kevingamble, natureconservancy, socialnetworking on February 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Brian Oberkirk’s recently posted advice to brands considering launching their own social networks (in short: don’t) has made the rounds in the nonprofit technology blogosphere, mostly thanks to the incredibly useful nptech tag (add this to your RSS feed now if you want to follow other practitioners and thinkers in this field).
It’s another volley in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged nonprofits, roi, socialmedia, socialnetworking on February 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Beth Kanter recently posted on the importance of outcome-based thinking for nonprofits getting involved in social media, and, with Alex de Carvalho, generated a great list of ways to address some of the challenges presented by social media. I’m just going to pull two items out of this list and expand on the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged good2gether, media, nptech, socialnetworking on February 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“When you read about “bad,” you want to be able to “do good.”
A new service was brought to my attention recently. It’s called Good2Gether, and it looks mighty interesting. (edited Monday February 4 - see below)
good2gether is a new search and social media Web service that connects people to causes through a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged jeremiahowyang, logicmodels, nptech, socialnetworking, strategy on December 3, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Nonprofits all around us are making decisions RIGHT NOW about how to engage in social networks, and many of us in the field have to fight a desperate feeling of running hard just to keep up - the overwhelming conviction that everybody else is winning friends, donors, hearts and minds through the savvy use of social networking [...]
