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.

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.

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

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.

YouTube reaches out to nonprofits with Campaigns tracking tool | ZDNet

YouTube reaches out to nonprofits with Campaigns tracking tool | ZDNet: YouTube continues to beef up analytics support on the front and back ends of the video sharing platform with the introduction of Campaigns.

Described as a "digital thermometer," essentially this tool can be used to set goals for the number of desired views with real-time tracking for pinpointing progress.

Google Wallet Ushers in a New Era in Online and Mobile Fundraising for Nonprofits � Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Blog :: A Social Media Guide for Nonprofits

Google Wallet Ushers in a New Era in Online and Mobile Fundraising for Nonprofits � Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Blog :: A Social Media Guide for Nonprofits: Now, there are numerous mobile wallets out there (Square, Visa, Isis, etc.), but Google Wallet does appear to be the first one to empower nonprofits to fundraise online. In the future, my guess is that when donating or shopping online we will be able to choose which wallet service we want to use with one-click – similar to how we now choose which credit card we want to use when donating or shopping online.

More small businesses dedicating time to social media - latimes.com

More small businesses dedicating time to social media - latimes.com: It started with an injured rescue dog, $125 in cash and an old silk screen machine.

Inspired by the dog, David, Donny and Darren Hendrickson used the money and the machine to launch an online skateboard and apparel company that donates a chunk of its profit to animal causes. To raise awareness for their endeavor, the 25-year-old brothers — they're triplets — turned to Facebook.

Jaitly Leaving Knight Foundation to Lead Twitter's Efforts In India | Xconomy

Jaitly Leaving Knight Foundation to Lead Twitter's Efforts In India | Xconomy

TechSoup Global Cutting Staff, Reorganizing - TheNonProfitTimes

TechSoup Global Cutting Staff, Reorganizing - TheNonProfitTimes: TechSoup Global is undergoing a reorganization that will result in fewer staff positions and a change in strategy for the technology product distribution nonprofit.

Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic

Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic: his means that this vast trove of social traffic is essentially invisible to most analytics programs. I call it DARK SOCIAL. It shows up variously in programs as "direct" or "typed/bookmarked" traffic, which implies to many site owners that you actually have a bookmark or typed in www.theatlantic.com into your browser. But that's not actually what's happening a lot of the time. Most of the time, someone Gchatted someone a link, or it came in on a big email distribution list, or your dad sent it to you.

Bringing the benefits of technology to Austrian nonprofits - Microsoft Citizenship Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

Bringing the benefits of technology to Austrian nonprofits - Microsoft Citizenship Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs: Technology donations for nonprofits made easy: What has benefited German nonprofits for nearly four years now, is now also available in Austria. As of late September, the online technology donation portal Stifter-helfen.at – IT for nonprofits went online with a press conference in Vienna and media coverage in various print and online titles. It gives Austrian nonprofits access to over 100 products from three software companies. Among those three: Microsoft. The company was also among the three initial donors in Germany, and it was instrumental in setting up the donation platform in the early 2000s in the US with the American non-governmental organization (NGO) TechSoup Global.

CRM must deliver cross-channel experience | TMA Resources

CRM must deliver cross-channel experience | TMA Resources: Crossing channels
Speaking to TechTarget, Natarajan, global head of CRM enterprise solutions for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), said offering a cross-channel experience is one of the greatest challenges that many organizations face.

Numerous studies have indicated that customers now expect organizations to offer services through multiple channels. In addition to traditional forums, such as the telephone and email, clients now want to be able to reach out to a firm via live webchat, text messaging, social media and more. If these options are not available, individuals may feel the organization is not paying sufficient attention to their needs and desires.

Typical Twitter user is a young woman with an iPhone & 208 followers — Tech News and Analysis

Typical Twitter user is a young woman with an iPhone & 208 followers — Tech News and Analysis: witter’s endless funnel of data is producing an equally endless series of studies — including on Twitter itself. The latest study offers fun tidbits about who is using Twitter and why.

In “An Exhaustive Study of Twitter Users Around the World,” analytics firm Beevolve claims to have crunched data from 36 million Twitter profiles. What they found probably corresponds to what you suspected: most Twitter users are young iPhone users from English speaking countries.

Nonprofit Sector “Short on Innovation?” Bull! - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active and engaged democracy.

Nonprofit Sector “Short on Innovation?” Bull! - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active and engaged democracy.: Writing for the Wall Street Journal, Ben Rooney begins a piece on nonprofits using relatively new digital and social media tools made possible by the Internet with this intro: “If big data and other technologies are transforming enterprise, then what effect will they have on the not-for-profit sector? It is an area that is typically strong on good will but short on innovation.” Wow! Mr. Rooney, may we introduce you to the nonprofit sector?

This opening body slam on the sector would be fine if Rooney offered any evidence to support such a generalization, but he doesn’t.

Coding for the community: techie-style philanthropy comes to Manchester | UK news | guardian.co.uk

Coding for the community: techie-style philanthropy comes to Manchester | UK news | guardian.co.uk: Over a warm autumn weekend in Manchester, around 20 designers, coders and lovers of all things techie gathered to share their skills with three local community projects - for free. The 'Good for Nothing' weekender which took place at Madlab last week, aims to help community projects build their profile and equip them for an increasingly competitive funding market.

Not-for-Profit Sector Gets Internet Savvy - Tech Europe - WSJ

Not-for-Profit Sector Gets Internet Savvy - Tech Europe - WSJ: A new breed of organization born in the heart of the digital disruption is using all the tools that the Internet, and in particular social media, afford to drive fundraising, raise awareness and more important, to help boost efficiency, delivering more returns.

The recruitment poster boy for these Young Turks is Charity: water, a campaigning group set up by Scott Harrison, a former nightclub promoter, to bring clean drinking water to the world’s poor. For Mr. Harrison, who built the charity into a multimillion-dollar operation, technology is transformative through its ability to link individual projects to individual supporters.

Crowdfunding 101: A Comparative Look at Kickstarter, Indiegogo and Razoo - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active and engaged democracy.

Crowdfunding 101: A Comparative Look at Kickstarter, Indiegogo and Razoo - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active and engaged democracy.: Crowdfunding 101: A Comparative Look at Kickstarter, Indiegogo and Razoo

It’s Time to Break the Bandwidth Monopoly | Tech News/Trends content from Meetings Net

It’s Time to Break the Bandwidth Monopoly | Tech News/Trends content from Meetings Net: Technology has invaded face-to-face events. If you stand in the back of a breakout session and observe attendee behavior, you’ll see what I mean. Today’s attendee brings a smartphone plus an iPad or laptop to every event. She is a hyper-connected multitasker, a member of the new “on-demand” generation. She expects to be able to check e-mail, post tweets, and stay productive at all times.

Lasa report showcases top digital tips from sector leaders

Lasa report showcases top digital tips from sector leaders: Lasa has launched an online report exploring the potential of technologies for the sector and urged others to share their thoughts.

Titled Digital: What Every Charity Leader Should Know, the report asked 31 relevant parties to summarise their top five digital insights using one digital presentation slide. The report includes contributions from Martha Lane Fox (chair, Go On UK and the UK's digital champion), Nigel Lewis (CEO, AbilityNet), and Karl Wilding (head of foresight, NCVO).

Your Facebook Fans Are Hiding Your Posts At An Alarming Rate | Fast Company

Your Facebook Fans Are Hiding Your Posts At An Alarming Rate | Fast Company: We are all counting numbers around our communities. After all, a thousand fans looks better than a hundred. But have you personally ever hid a post from a brand you're a fan of? And have you, as a marketer, ever wondered how many of your fans do the same thing?

There are four types of negative feedback on Facebook ranging from undesirable, to worst for a marketer, starting with:
● Hide: hides a single specific post from the user’s newsfeed
● Hide All: hides all the posts by that page from the user’s newsfeed. This used to be known as “unsubscribing”.
● Unlike Page: “unfan” the page
● Report spam: user thinks your page is spam