Charity pours heart out online

Charity pours heart out online: "A CHARITY in Singapore has raised the bar in transparency by giving its major donors online access to its day-to-day accounts."

Twitter quitters are fleeing the site in droves

Twitter quitters are fleeing the site in droves: "It seems that while people are joining the micro-blogging site in droves, a whole lot of them don't sticking around for long. A Nielsen Co. report released yesterday shows that 60% of Twitter users do not return to the microblogging site the next month. And for the 12 months prior to Oprah Winfrey joining Twitter this month with great media fanfare, the site had a retention rate of less than 30%."

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Nonprofits Are Embracing Social Networks:
Industry Survey Reveals 74.2% of Nonprofits Have a Presence on Facebook"

Asian American Giving: Role of philanthropy in China

Asian American Giving: Role of philanthropy in China: "I was twittering at Give2Asia's Investing in China Philanthropy Forum in Beijing last week. You can find the play-by-play details of the event here. I thought I would share some of the highlights from the tweets:"

Change the Web Challenge a win for all - Digital Life

Change the Web Challenge a win for all - Digital Life: "After community voting and a final review by a judging panel that included Vancouver's social media rock star Kris Krug, winners in the Change the Web Challenge were announced at NTEN's Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco.

Change the Web Challenge was launched by Social Actions, an online non-profit organization that acts as a clearing house for non-profits to share their causes, their stories and their needs."

2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference: Social Media for Nonprofits

From Marc Pitman

2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference: Social Media for Nonprofits: "2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference
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This is the time of year when all the nonprofit geeks gather at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference and when the rest of us who feel techincally savvy realize we’re probably just geek-wannabes."

AFP > Resource Center | Fundraising news > Facebook Yields Scant Returns with Causes Program

AFP > Resource Center | Fundraising news > Facebook Yields Scant Returns with Causes Program: "Building a Following Just as Valuable

A widely followed social networking expert Allison Fine notes in a blog article that Facebook has value beyond the amount of dollars per donor raised.

“Causes enables a lot of people to ‘support a cause.’ In old thinking that meant only one thing: give us money,” Fine writes. “But in connected thinking, it means that each one of us can be more than an ATM for our causes. Causes on Facebook enables us to tell our own world—distinct from the world—about the issues, campaigns and organizations that they are passionate about. We can bring our networks of friends, our ingenuity, our passion, our time, our expertise to support causes. It enables lots and lots of people to learn about causes and to share them with their friends easily, quickly and inexpensively."

Professors experiment with Twitter as teaching tool - JSOnline

Professors experiment with Twitter as teaching tool - JSOnline: "Many of the students in Menck and Ekechai's classes said they weren't on Twitter until they were encouraged by their teachers and guest speakers. Some became converts who tweet multiple times a day; others don't see much value in it.

In one of Menck's classes, students craft a marketing campaign for a nonprofit client. They aren't required to use social media, but Menck recommends it.

Students working with Growing Power, a nonprofit urban farm in Milwaukee, created a Twitter account and instantly got questions from people who wanted to know more about the organization. Since they started the account in January, they've gotten 260 'followers' - Twitter users who sign up to receive their messages."