Thousands RSVP for Global Group Run on Meetup

Thousands RSVP for Global Group Run on Meetup: "itness app developer RunKeeper, which released its Health Graph API to the public earlier this month, has partnered with Meetup to organize a worldwide group run on July 9."

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Facebook assembles group to plan for disasters - CNN.com

Facebook assembles group to plan for disasters - CNN.com

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Online charity donation portal raises over S$5m - Channel NewsAsia

Online charity donation portal raises over S$5m - Channel NewsAsia: "SINGAPORE: In just over a year, Singapore's largest charity donation portal, SG Gives, has raised raised over S$5 million online for Singapore charities.

Most of the donations went to the social service sector (63 per cent) and the health sector (36 per cent)."

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How Non-Profits are Exploring Augmented Reality Tech

How Non-Profits are Exploring Augmented Reality Tech: "Augmented reality promises a new level of interaction between people and data. Now, even the newest for-profit applications can turn heads by utilizing this new advanced technology.

The non-profit sector has started to experiment with augmented reality. One of Sunlight Labs’ early entries is their Recovery.gov mashup. Another example is Amsterdam’s Allard Pierson Museum, which highlights virtual reconstructions of Satricum and the Forum Romanum. But while there are early leaders, non-profits generally lag behind in market experimentation."

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Who's Your Mayor? Philanthropy Meets Foursquare | Social Enterprise

Who's Your Mayor? Philanthropy Meets Foursquare | Social Enterprise: "Blanketing BART stations in San Francisco since mid-June are public service ads urging passers-by to use their cell phones to 'drill the oil industry.' Another Twitter campaign? Guess again. Think Foursquare, the new mobile social network which a number of nonprofits are using to drum up some money and a crowd of supporters -- online and off."

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MySpace Resuscitated With UI and Social Messaging Makeover? | Fast Company

MySpace Resuscitated With UI and Social Messaging Makeover? | Fast Company: "MySpace is still alive, which may not be surprising, but the fact that it's alive and kicking is a bit of a shock: It's due to give a sleek revamp to its hideous profile pages, and has bought Threadbox to rejig its social messaging skills.

The news about a revamp to MySpace's profile pages first came via a tweet from a MySpace executive, but then MySpace confirmed it via a short statement: 'We're testing a new look and feel of our site among users' it noted, adding that clients seemed to like the changes thus far. 'As always, we're interested in hearing feedback from our community as we roll out enhancements to the user experience and look forward to sharing more details with you in the coming weeks' is a much more exciting phrase to read, though, as it points to a more thorough revamp en route."

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Saratoga County nonprofits find funds through social networking sites - The Saratogian News: Serving the Saratoga Springs, N.Y. region (Saratogian.com)

Saratoga County nonprofits find funds through social networking sites - The Saratogian News: Serving the Saratoga Springs, N.Y. region (Saratogian.com): "Nonprofit organizations are no exception to the growing use of social networking in the workplace.

The Saratoga Hospital Foundation, for example, started a hospital-wide Twitter feed in February and just joined Facebook."

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Cleveland software firm holding 'tech camp' to help nonprofits with websites | cleveland.com

Cleveland software firm holding 'tech camp' to help nonprofits with websites | cleveland.com: "We're inviting a bunch of geeks and people passionate about software development to help do good things for charity,' is how Stahl describes GiveCamp, set for July 16-18.

Keyboards will click continuously during the round-the-clock event, as software developers, designers and database administrators donate their weekend to craft custom software for 15 lucky nonprofits, he said.

Tents and campers will be set up in the parking lot for bleary-eyed programmers and nonprofit leaders who need to catch a nap. 'We'll take turns working on the solutions,' Stahl said. 'We might have a couple developers working on a project, and when they get tired, they'll sleep and somebody will relieve them.'"

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Checking in at Foursquare's Hot Tubbin', Rooftop, Rock Star Moment | Fast Company

Checking in at Foursquare's Hot Tubbin', Rooftop, Rock Star Moment | Fast Company: "Since then, Foursquare's user base increased five-fold (from 200,000 to 1,000,000 users), and it's managed to steal the spotlight from established networks like Loopt and Brightkite and upstart competitors like Gowalla. 'Foursquare has a personality that's fun to interact with,' explains New York resident, Leslie Forrester. 'This identity makes it funner than the other ones.' Brandon Keene, a 24-year-old Foursquare user at the party, adds, 'It's interesting that users are so passionate about Foursquare that they threw this party for them, rather than Foursquare throwing it themselves. People are obsessed with Foursquare. It's kind of ridiculous.'"

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Mobile Social Networking Usage Soars [STATS]

Mobile Social Networking Usage Soars [STATS]: "Digital measurement firm comScore released a study today highlighting the rise in social media access via mobile phones and offering some comparison metrics for some of the biggest social networks and their usage on mobile devices."

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Social Media for Nonprofit Goals

Social Media for Nonprofit Goals: "Using Social Media to Meet Nonprofit Goals: The Results of a Survey"

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Will Google Buzz Go the Way of Facebook Beacon? | Technomix | Fast Company

Will Google Buzz Go the Way of Facebook Beacon? | Technomix | Fast Company: "Whether you like it or loathe it, Google's new Buzz social sharing system has hit the headlines in a particularly catastrophic way over and over in the week since its launch. Though Google has moved to adjust some of the issues, some of the damage is already done. Google's usual trick of data-mining and automating some of the process (a trick it uses elsewhere in its other services) directly exposes to public view some data that many Google users would prefer to remain private--thanks to the auto-populated friends list that Buzz used to deliver to you on login."

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Time Spent With Personal Email Unchanged From Last Year : eMarketing & Commerce (eM+C)

Time Spent With Personal Email Unchanged From Last Year : eMarketing & Commerce (eM+C): "Despite the growth in the number of people using social networking sites to communicate with each other, time spent with personal email to friends and family is unchanged from last year, with 71 percent of respondents spending 20 minutes or more weekly."

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Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education: "Shortly after last's week's earthquake in Haiti, a group of students working in a laboratory in Colorado unveiled a project that makes it easier for victims and volunteers to tweet for help.

The lab, at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Atlas Institute, produced a guideline for a 'help specific' Twitter syntax that allows tweets requesting help to be easily processed by a computer program. The program organizes the messages by 'hashtags,' as code words used in Twitter are often called, that express need and location. Then the software can send the information to an organization providing relief."

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The New Media Relations for Nonprofits - How Nonprofits Can Get Their Stories Out Through Bloggers and Twitter

Joanne Fritz covers New Media Relations
The New Media Relations for Nonprofits - How Nonprofits Can Get Their Stories Out Through Bloggers and Twitter: "Media relations in the world of Web 2.0 have changed dramatically.

While it is still important to keep in touch with the so-called 'main stream media,' especially your local reporters, that is no longer sufficient."

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Virtual volunteering carries real benefits -- chicagotribune.com

Virtual volunteering carries real benefits -- chicagotribune.com: "Jeanine Handley, a graphic designer, volunteers without ever leaving her house by designing materials for a nonprofit legal aid organization. Amy Bogl uses Facebook parties to help an organization that shelters homeless teens win a fundraising contest. Molly Shah, a volunteer tutor, uses texting almost daily to motivate a student"

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Top 10 Ways to Boost Online Giving at Year-End - Resource Center - AFP

Top 10 Ways to Boost Online Giving at Year-End - Resource Center - AFP: "Top 10 Ways to Boost Online Giving at Year-End

By Gail Perry, CFRE

Author and fundraising consultant Gail Perry offers advice to fundraisers on how to ramp up online giving in the final months of the year.

(Dec. 1, 2009) The most important--and most critical--giving season is upon us. And for many nonprofits, one out of every two gifts comes in the last three months of the year.

Online giving is even more important at year-end. About 40 percent of online gifts are made in December. And 40-60 percent of those gifts are made the last two days of the year."

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