The use of facebook in the nonprofit sector has recently been one of the top topics in nonprofit blogs. I wrote about the potential facebook has for nonprofits in November in my entry titled How Nonprofits Can Use Facebook. Since then, Facebook started something new called Facebook Applications.
Bl'ong has a great entry about this titled Top 12 Nonprofit Facebook Applications.
What other Facebook Applications are nonprofit related?
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Sunday, August 05, 2007
Sunday, July 08, 2007
Bald Eagle Recovery
I recently had a very exciting experience in my temporary website position at Defenders of Wildlife. I got to post news to webpages about the bald eagle being removed from the endangered species list.
For more information about this news, check out the following links:
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Social Media Club, Social Networking, and Nonprofits
I attended the May DC Social Media Club meeting on social networking. It was very interesting and I was so excited when nonprofits were mentioned as examples.
Social networking sites mentioned in the meeting were Facebook, MySpace, Second Life, and a few others.
One of the first examples mentioned was about The Humane Society using MySpace. They get about 100 new friend requests a day. They have a profile for the organization as well as a profile for a seal named Sammy the Seal. The seal has a blog and has more friends than the profile for the organization. I have noticed in my research of social networking for nonprofits that people are more likely be friends (or join a group) with a specific issue/campaign and not be friends with an organization.
Examples from Second Life include ISTE and American Cancer Society. One thing that was mentioned about ISTE is that their presence is for their members and they actually show powerpoint slides at their virtual meeting. You can read more about how they use Second Life at ISTE Second Life. The American Cancer Society holds a virtual relay for life in Second Life. I've written about this topic briefly here. You can read more at Second Life Relay For Life.
Another nonprofit example that was shared was a campaign by Greenpeace called Green My Apple.
Things I learned:
Social networking sites mentioned in the meeting were Facebook, MySpace, Second Life, and a few others.
One of the first examples mentioned was about The Humane Society using MySpace. They get about 100 new friend requests a day. They have a profile for the organization as well as a profile for a seal named Sammy the Seal. The seal has a blog and has more friends than the profile for the organization. I have noticed in my research of social networking for nonprofits that people are more likely be friends (or join a group) with a specific issue/campaign and not be friends with an organization.
Examples from Second Life include ISTE and American Cancer Society. One thing that was mentioned about ISTE is that their presence is for their members and they actually show powerpoint slides at their virtual meeting. You can read more about how they use Second Life at ISTE Second Life. The American Cancer Society holds a virtual relay for life in Second Life. I've written about this topic briefly here. You can read more at Second Life Relay For Life.
Another nonprofit example that was shared was a campaign by Greenpeace called Green My Apple.
Things I learned:
- Organizations want to do more with web 2.0, but members may not want to use these tools.
- You can measure the success of social networks not by the number of friends but by the number of new friends a day and who is clicking on links to the network pages
- People are noticing how nonprofits are using social networking and other web 2.0 tools
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
NetSquared Projects
I looked through the 21 projects and came up with 6 of them that I liked. There are more of them that I did like, but I felt alot of them did not meet the definition of what I think NetSquared is.
Here are the ones I thought were the most interesting:
Here are the ones I thought were the most interesting:
Sunday, April 15, 2007
NTC Session - Web 2.0 for Communities
One of the sessions I attended at NTC was Web 2.0 for Communities, which is a topic I am very interested in.
The American Cancer Society was used as an example of a nonprofit that used Web 2.0 technologies. Here is more information about their experience:
The American Cancer Society was used as an example of a nonprofit that used Web 2.0 technologies. Here is more information about their experience:
- They defined their community. This consisted of anyone affected by cancer, events, volunteers & donors, and location
- They researched the blogosphere and went to where people were. They started using tools like MySpace and Second Life.
- They recently launched an online community at RelayForLife.org. It has an rss feed which is from the ACS website. Their most popular feature is the gallery which allows users to share photos. Volunteers helped spread the word about this new community.
- Relay for Life started on Second Life because a volunteer asked for this. They raised $5,000 their first year and $41,000 their second year.
Things to Do:
- Find out what online communities people use
- Find out what donors and volunteers do on these websites
- Find people who are talking about the topic/issue on the Internet and connect with them
- Use Technorati to find blogs about the topics/issue
- Comment on blogs and provide a link to the organization
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