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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