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How To: Put Technology to Use

Submitted by BrettMeyer on Thu, 09/27/2007 - 8:28am.

Your guide to resources that will help you put technology to work for your cause.

Make Money with Facebook (provided by Peter Deitz)

> Are Nonprofits actually raising money through Facebook? Read "The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes" and "Facebook changes the numbers!", then check out the metrics on Causes, Change.org, ChipIn, and Fundraising.

> The emergence of Facebook as a fundraising force has certainly caught people's attention:

> And if you're not totally Facebooked out (Facebookered?), you can learn more at:

Map Your Presence

> The American Institute of Architects has put GoogleEarth to great use with Blueprint for America. Their template for adding information to the project is also a model of clear documentation. Another project of note: Google is helping the Surui tribe map their territory along the Amazon to monitor illegal logging.

> GoogleEarth makes it relatively straightforward to map your organization's data via the KML file format. Read Google's own documentation or quickly learn to overlay KML on Google's MyMaps.

> You can learn more about Geographical Information Systems (GIS) at our upcoming webinar.

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