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OnMessage Teams with Honor Flight Network

PR Web is reporting that OnMessage has teamed with Honor Flight Network to give their website a new look during their 2009 donation drive. Read more...

World Green Web Community Launched by Leonardo Academy

CSR Wire is reporting that the Leonardo Academy has launched the world green web community, which promotes sustainability and connects companies that wish to share sustainability information. Read more...

Editor's Choice - May 6, 2008

ImageIt's difficult to believe that 1/3 of 2008 has passed us by. I thought it would be good to take a look at the recap we did of 2007, in order to gain a bit of perspective.

The year 2007 is winding to a close, finishing up one of the most exciting chapters in nonprofit technological achievements. It was the year that brought about greater acceptance of the newer Web 2.0 applications, such as Kintera’s Sphere platform, that allows non-profits to reach thousands of constituents and contributors in a single forum and to create communities in unheard of numbers in real time. Read more...

International Humanitarian Fund to Use Social Networking

The International Humanitarian fund has begun to use social networking sites to campaign, as a way to reach more potential donors. Read the article on Yahoo. Read more...

Editor's Choice - April 22, 2008

We publish a good number of articles in each issue of Nonprofit Technology News, and sometimes some of the most important, or relevant items are posted in issues that we miss reading for one reason or another. Read more...

Just One Question - Richard McPherson, president and founder of McPherson Associates

Richard McPherson, president and founder of McPherson Associates .

What are the biggest challenges you have in working with clients to develop an online list acquisition/fundraising strategy? How do you typically address those challenges? Read more...

From The Top - ASI

ASI’s Chairman and CEO, Bob Alves, talks with Nonprofit Technology News
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MySpace and Nonprofits: An Interview with Lee Brenner

NPTech News recently spoke with Lee Brenner, MySpace.com's executive producer of political programming and director of the nonprofit oriented Impact section at MySpace.

Nonprofit Technology News: What kind of applications and other assistance do you provide to nonprofits?

Brenner: We've worked with hundreds of nonprofits from very small ones to large international nonprofits to assist them in utilizing the tools of MySpace. We have a relationship with PayPal so they can do viral fundraising, which is free for them. They can put a viral fundraising widget on their page and that can out among other users, who can put it on their own pages. They can literally have a viral fundraising team. Read more...

Just One Question - Nancy McBride, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

Just One Question: How do you integrate information and communicate with both constituents and law enforcement?

Nancy A. McBride ---National Safety Director, The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s® (NCMEC) Read more...

From the Top - Convio

Convio is capitalizing on two hot trends in the nonprofit universe: SaaS and Web 2.0 social networking.

In 1999, Vinay Bhagat volunteered at a local public broadcasting station and soon found himself passing written messages when people called in. The quickly jotted notes contained little information about the donors and that troubled Bhagat. Shortly thereafter, he quit his job at a software company and conducted more than 1,000 interviews with nonprofit executives to learn about how they raise money, drive advocacy and communicate with constituents. Based on that research Convio delivered its first online constituent relationship management products in July 2000. Read more...

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