Update: Apple made an official statement about why the pulled the app and appears to put the donation policy out of the picture. So far, no official word from Apple on the iPhone app donation issue. Today, the Guardian Technology blog speculated that the reason why the Wikileaks iPhone app was pulled from the iTunes store was because the $1.95 fee for the app was a donation to the organization. Let's unpack this .... This is a nuanced issue. No doubt about it. The online petition with over … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2010
Apple May Not Listen, But Google and Microsoft Are All Ears …
You might have read this article in the New York Times this month about how Apple makes it really difficult for nonprofits to collect donations from within iPhone apps and the ensuring kerfulffle from many in the nonprofit and CSR sector, including the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Nonprofit Quarterly, Cause Marketing Forum, and Foundation Center. But the outcry was not limited to the social sector industry in US, we also heard complaints from Australia, UK, and Canada. It has also been … [Read more...]
Don't Merge Your Nonprofit Facebook Page With Places Page
Update: Facebook added the ability to "unmerge" your page with places. Note from Beth: It has been less than a month since we launched the Zoetica Salon on my Facebook Page, a free peer learning space where we are discussing a monthly theme (this month is measurement) related to nonprofits and social media, sharing resources, as well as answering questions and sparking conversation. The Salon has been a terrific listening post and generated some good ideas for how-to posts like this one from … [Read more...]
RIP: del.icio.us
According to PC World, Yahoo will shut down several of its Web properties, including Delicious, according to a leaked Yahoo presentation slide that was posted on Twitter. I was hoping this was just a rumor. Oh, say it ain't so .... but this TechCrunch confirms the demise of one of my favorite tools pointing to this post by Liz Gannes. My early days in social media were spent immersed in tagging and social bookmarking. Marnie Webb introduced me to the NpTech Tag and a whole nonprofit tech … [Read more...]
Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing
Crowdsourcing 101 View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Over the past two years, as part of my work as Visiting Scholar for nonprofits and social media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I have had the opportunity to participate in The Network of Network Funders (NNF) , a community of practice for funders who are intentionally investing in and working through networks. The focus has been to develop practice and share insights on networked effectiveness. I've had the … [Read more...]