The fundraising App known as Causes is very popular on Facebook:
http://www.causes.com

They had a version for about a year or so for MySpace. I added the App, but honestly never used it and the few times I tried to use it I just got tech errors.

Anyway, Causes deleted the App and the nonprofit sector talked quite a bit about it this week:

http://blog.techsoup.org/node/1054

Did anyone out there actually use this App? If so, how do you feel about it being shut down? THANKS!

As the Web goes mobile, so does social media… and so should your nonprofit. If there is one thing I have learned over ten years of using the Internet for fundraising and social change, those nonprofits that can embrace change quickly, empower their visionaries, and adopt new Web trends, reap the benefits of being early adopters.

The Web and how people use it is transforming quickly. There are more than 65 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices and that number grows daily. MySpace estimates that 50% of its Website traffic will be mobile within 24 months. In 2008, over two trillion text messages were sent worldwide. 1 trillion of those were sent by U.S. mobile subscribers… triple the number of how many text messages were sent in 2007. Many of those texts are being sent via Tweets on Twitter and Status Updates on Facebook.

Read More:
http://nonprofitorgs.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/social-media-is-going-mobile-and-so-should-your-nonprofit/

MySpace is the social networking site to all things pop culture. Launched originally as a social network for bands and musicians, there are now over 8,000,000 Music profiles on MySpace. I use MySpace to check out and find new music, but I mostly use it to promote nonprofit organizations and their causes to the MySpace community. The Nonprofit Organizations MySpace is a great community of mostly friendly people that has grown to over 40,000 friends over the last three years, but had any of the Top Artists on MySpace put the Nonprofit Organizations MySpace in their Top Friends, I have no doubt that the NPO MySpace would be well over 1,000,000 strong. But they didn't... not once.


More:
http://nonprofits.change.org/blog/view/celebs_rock_stars_and_nonprofits_are_not_friends_or_friendly_on_facebook_myspace_or_twitter

OK... I live in a weird tech geek bubble. For my work, I have to read Mashable, ReadWriteWeb, and TechCrunch daily... for about 18 months now. The bloggers on these sites are seriously in love with Twitter and Facebook, but when it comes to MySpace... it's unbelievable how they talk about MySpace.

MySpace is Dead

Just How Stupid And Poor Are MySpace Users, Exactly?

That's just the tip of the iceberg. Seriously.

Yet... MySpace is hardly dead:
www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/US

Slowing yes... but dead no.

There is this unfortunate MySpace vs. Facebook War in the blogosphere that is undeniable... and FB is definitely winning. For every 100 stories that mention MySpace, maybe one is positive. I am not exaggerating. None of the great new upgrades from MySpace have been covered by these bloggers, but Twitter goes down for 30 seconds and these bloggers blog poetic for days about they missed Twitter. What is going on here? For 18 months now, MySpace is getting slammed almost daily... and it's starting to take it toll... numbers and traffic are down. Are people truly growing our of MySpace, or is the blogosphere out to get it? And if so, why? Does it really just come down to my social networking site is better that your social networking site?

I have a sneaking suspicion that most of these bloggers don't even use MySpace. They sign up, see ads... and then go off to write blogs about how MySpace sucks and it's ugly and for losers, and Facebook is King.

I like Facebook and Twitter just as much as the next gal, but I am starting to find it pretty offensive... and I think class and race play a huge role. Most of these bloggers are white males, from Ivy League type schools... where Facebook was a part of the college experience. In general, race and class are rarely examined for their role in social media, but I am on all sites 40-50 hours a week and there is no denying that the diversity is on MySpace.

What do you think? Are race and class playing a role? Is is that Rupert Murdock owns MySpace? He's not exactly popular with the blogosphere. Or has MySpace made mistakes? Seriously... what do you think?

The MySpace Best Practices for Nonprofit Organizations are now capped at 75:
http://www.diosacommunications.com/myspacebestpractices.htm

Change.org just launched Jobs for Change:
http://jobs.change.org

In addition to jobs in nonprofit, government, and social enterprise sectors, there are 6 career guides there to do nothing more than help your job search by offering advice, resources, etc.

Also, please sign the Change.org Vision Statement and add the widget to you MySpace!
http://jobs.change.org/vision

If you do post the widget, please post on this blog letting me know!

This doesn't exist anywhere else on the Web!

http://nonprofits.change.org/blog/view/need_web_20_icons_for_your_website_facebook_page_myspace_profile_just_copy_and_paste

They look best pasted under "Interests"... yeah!

You'd have to sign up for 10+ different Web sites (and pay for most of them!) to get all the tools available to you for free on Change.org. All nonprofits should sign up and take their free Webinar to learn how to use the site!

http://nonprofits.change.org/blog/view/changeorg_nonprofit_admin_accounts_explained_the_premium_service_is_now_free_for_all_nonprofits

Free Webinar:
http://nonprofits.change.org