From the monthly archives:

March 2008

why nonprofits should care about bebo & aol

by Beth Dunn on 13 March 2008

Nonprofits have a hard enough time determining if, when, and how they should get shaking on Facebook or MySpace, the two massive players in the United States social networking space. Now comes news that AOL has acquired Bebo, a popular social network in the United Kingdom and New Zealand, but a bit of an also-ran [...]

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top, drop, and role

by Beth Dunn on 11 March 2008

Top The new multi-disciplinary blog aggregrator from Guy Kawasaki, Alltop.com, officially went live today. As noted here last week, the Nonprofit Alltop page looks to be a good at-a-glance resource for all the latest blog posts in the nonprofit world (primarily those in the United States, from the look of it, for now at least). [...]

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facebook is out for blood

by Beth Dunn on 10 March 2008

A New York nonprofit, Takes All Types, has announced a new program that will mobilize blood donors through Facebook, The New York Times reports. For those who opt in, the system will send out alerts through Facebook — as well as by phone, fax, e-mail and text message — when their blood type is needed [...]

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there are disasters, and there are disasters

by Beth Dunn on 9 March 2008

The mega-festival that is SXSWi (South by Southwest Interactive, also known as Spring Break for the Internet) has been underway for two days now, and many of us have been watching it from home through Twitter, Flickr, the occasional livestream, and related blog posts. The big news today was the keynote interview of Facebook founder [...]

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