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Net2 Think Tank: Lessons from the Campaigns

amysampleward — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:50:47 -0500

Earlier this month, the world watched as America elected a new president who came from a campaign rich with social media. The campaigns had much more money and resources than all the nonprofit organizations that I know, but were really succeeding with free, or nearly-free, tools. The question this month focused on lessons for nonprofits:

UK Charities needed for Virtual Promise

amysampleward — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:10:45 -0400

NFPSynergy, the only specialist research consultantcy for nonprofit organizations in the UK, wants to hear from your organization for the next Virtual Promise report. Over the last seven years, Virtual Promise has provided a unique insight into the use of the internet by charities in the UK.

With growing numbers of participants every year and readers from around the globe, we're told it's the only way charity professionals can compare and benchmark their new media activity, priorities and investment.
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Amazee Launces Two Programs to Help Nonprofits

amysampleward — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:43:10 -0400

Amazee, a free platform that allows you to share your goals and gives you the tools to connect with like-minded people to run and promote projects, has just launched two free tools to help nonprofits.

Check out the Amazee Camp!

Check ou tthe Amazee Bucket!

Learn more about Amazee's new Camp & Bucket

Net2ThinkTank: Key Questions about Social Media Training

amysampleward — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:34:00 -0400

This month's Net2ThinkTank Question was: What are the key questions nonprofit organizations should ask to help them determine how to prioritize social media training and experimentation as they do their technology and organization-strengthening planning?

Below is a roundup of your answers!

ReplyforAll says Join the Cause!

amysampleward — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:12:21 -0400

Replyforall is a new tool that lets you support nonprofit causes in a sustainable way: your email signature! Their just-launched Your Message, Your Vote contest could mean your favorite nonprofit wins $10,000!

How does replyforall work?

Replyforall is built on the knowledge that we all send a lot of emails - to our friends, our colleagues, our family. We have a lot of emails, and replyforall helps us change all of the emails we have into things we can do!

How to Use FriendFeed to Keep Up on Nonprofits' Use of Social Media

lnorvig — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:32:29 -0400

Twitter may be all the rage, but I find it unintuitive and therefore have not heavily adopted it.

With FriendFeed, however, I can keep up on the "tweets" of folks involved in the nonprofit tech/social media space, and get so much more to boot.

Change.org Relaunches: what can you do?

amysampleward — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:00:37 -0400

Change.org has just relaunched its website - an online hub and media network for social issues and collective action.

The new version of the site focuses on the question: what can I do? "If I want to end homelessness, what can I do? If I support gay rights, what can I do?"

The Answer

In Josh Levy's words (Josh is the new Managing Editor):

Should funders reward nonprofits for how much they communicate in new media?

Mazarine — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:24:40 -0400

If the more you communicate, the more impact you can have, the more you potentially can create more support for your cause, get donors, etc, should funders look at nonprofits who are communicating more in a more favorable light?

And should every facebook event post, every myspace friend, be counted towards that communication quota?

Or are nonprofits in new media investing program money in something that has yet to show a serious $$ per person return?

Are funders even looking at communication as something worth supporting?

What is your experience?

Pandora and Philanthropy

Britt Bravo — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:07:35 -0400

On Monday, I posted the question, How Can Nonprofits Use Pandora? I wanted to share with you the response from Pandora's Community Manager. They're doing some pretty great stuff!

I do know that teachers use Pandora stations and our musicology podcasts to educate students. And indie musicans are making better livings via their exposure on Pandora, which is a great source of pride for us.

Just wanted to let you know of a few of the philanthropic works Pandora is involved in as well...

- We have donated over 6,000 CDs to the Oakland Public Library.

- We raise money for music education through GlobalGiving.

- Pandora staff volunteer monthly at a local Oakland school that doesn't have music education. We teach music theory and by the end of the year, even have them hooked up in a mini recording studio, burning them CDs of the songs they created. (Flickr photos of Pandora volunteering).
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How Can Nonprofits Use Pandora?

Britt Bravo — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:25:53 -0400

I finally set myself up on the personalized Internet radio station, Pandora, and I LOVE it.

I'm wondering, is there a way that something this awesome could be used to help nonprofits, especially ones that support the arts?

The thought must be in the air because recently Lucy Bernholz of Philanthropy 2173 wrote a post, Pandora, Pop Culture and Philanthropy. In it she says,