Thursday, October 25, 2012

Facebook sets up $500,000 foundation to deliver services in East Palo Alto, Belle Haven - San Jose Mercury News

Facebook sets up $500,000 foundation to deliver services in East Palo Alto, Belle Haven - San Jose Mercury News: Facebook is delivering on its promise to create a charitable foundation that will distribute $500,000 to community nonprofits serving East Palo Alto and Menlo Park's Belle Haven neighborhood.

The social network company's investment is part of a deal it struck with the city of Menlo Park for permission to almost double the number of employees at its main campus at the intersection of Bayfront Expressway and Willow Road.

Short-Form Stories Sizzle on Social�Media - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media -

Short-Form Stories Sizzle on Social�Media - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media -

Technology news,�events,�jobs,�and�company�profiles - Techvibes.com

Technology news,�events,�jobs,�and�company�profiles - Techvibes.com: We learned this morning that Salesforce was "decimating" Radian6's marketing and social community departments. According to a source familiar with the matter, people from the vice-president level down are facing layoffs "left and right" today at Radian6, which Salesforce acquired for more than $300 million last year.

YouTube Unveils New Fundraising Tool for Nonprofits: Associations Now

YouTube Unveils New Fundraising Tool for Nonprofits: Associations Now: For associations that have tried using social media to fundraise, the YouTube Nonprofits Program could prove a valuable complement to existing campaign strategies, especially in the area of relationship building, said Amy Sample Ward, membership director at NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

3 Critical Skills Community Managers Can Learn from “Whose Line Is It Anyway”? � The Community Manager

3 Critical Skills Community Managers Can Learn from “Whose Line Is It Anyway”? � The Community Manager: Successful (and hilarious) improv is more like Community Management than you might think.

In both, you need to be able to work together with another person (or a group of people), often in the moment, to solve problems with uncontrollable factors including your environment and any shared & internal feelings.

In Mobile World, Tech Giants Scramble to Get Up to Speed - NYTimes.com

In Mobile World, Tech Giants Scramble to Get Up to Speed - NYTimes.com: Today almost half of Americans own a smartphone, according to comScore — an astoundingly fast adoption since Apple introduced the iPhone just five years ago. The amount of time people spend on their phones surfing the Web, using apps, playing games and listening to music has more than doubled in the last two years, to 82 minutes a day, according to eMarketer; the time spent online on computers will grow just 3.6 percent this year.

“What has caught people off guard has been acceleration of the multitude of things that you can do with a smartphone,” said David B. Yoffie, a Harvard Business School professor who studies the technology sector.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Why Did Salsa Labs Fire Its CEO and Co-Founder? - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active and engaged democracy.

Why Did Salsa Labs Fire Its CEO and Co-Founder? - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active and engaged democracy.: n a move that has relevance for nonprofits engaged in issue campaigns, Salsa Labs fired CEO and co-founder Chris Lundberg. The Salsa Labs organizing platform (and before it, Democracy in Action) was the creation of Lundberg and April Pederson. Salsa Labs went from a nonprofit at which Lundberg and Pederson sacrificed their salaries to a privately-held for-profit with thousands of clients using it as an integrated platform for “nonprofits [to] build, organize & engage a base of support with tools to communicate, fundraise, advocate & build community,” as stated on Salsa’s Twitter account.

Foundation Center - Nonprofit Collaboration Database

Foundation Center - Nonprofit Collaboration Database

Monday, October 22, 2012

Charity notebook: Jowonio wins $8,500 grant to buy technology that will help special needs children communicate | syracuse.com

Charity notebook: Jowonio wins $8,500 grant to buy technology that will help special needs children communicate | syracuse.com: he CNY85 Giving Project was created to engage the public in the foundation's 85-year anniversary celebration and draw attention to the many nonprofits that benefit Central New York. The online campaign invites visitors to its websiteto vote for a project once a day during the designated month.

The grant to Jowonio was the third awarded this year as part of CNY85. Previous winners have included Orenda Springs Experiential Learning Center and the Madison County Office for the Aging.

Social Media and Fundraising: Metropolitan Ministries � AFP Suncoast Blog

Social Media and Fundraising: Metropolitan Ministries � AFP Suncoast Blog: The next stop on my journey to discover how social media is impacting AFP member organizations and whether it is helping to raise dollars was at Metropolitan Ministries. There I had the pleasure of talking with Justine Burke, Director of Marketing, and Jim Alexander, Digital Marketing Coordinator.