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How To: Put Technology to Use

By BrettMeyer
Created 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 [1]" and "Facebook changes the numbers! [2]", then check out the metrics on Causes [3], Change.org [4], ChipIn [5], and Fundraising [6].

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

  • Change.org is now on Facebook! [7]
  • Can Change.org Change FaceBook Organizing? [8]
  • Interview with Joe Green and Chris Chan of Project Agape [9]
  • Joe Green on Project Agape and Online Democracy [10]
  • Facebook Generation: Will Social Networks Change the Nature of Philanthropy? [11]

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

  • Using Facebook in Your Nonprofit [12]
  • How Nonprofits Can Use Facebook [13]
  • A beginner's guide to Facebook for non-profits [14]
  • Promote your cause on Facebook in 5 easy steps [15]
  • Top-12 Nonprofit Facebook Applications [16]
  • More Articles about Nonprofits and Facebook [17]

Map Your Presence

> The American Institute of Architects has put GoogleEarth [18] to great use with Blueprint for America [19]. Their template for adding information [20] to the project is also a model of clear documentation. Another project of note: Google is helping the Surui tribe [21] 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 [22] or quickly learn to overlay KML [23] on Google's MyMaps.

> You can learn more about Geographical Information Systems (GIS) at our upcoming webinar [24].

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