The Annual Giving Exchange

This month’s issue of Tech News features a great article by Adam Louie entitled Making Sense of Social Media.  Take 15 minutes out of your day to read this article and familiarize yourself with these important tools:

• Firstgiving.com: users can create fundraising projects for you and send e-mails to friends and family to get them to donate.
• Change.org: Organizations can make profiles, blogs, post videos, and take donations.
• Razoo.com: Online Donation site. No processing fees.
• Amazee.com: Online donation site. Users create projects to collaborate and donate money towards.
  Ning.com and Wikia.com Make your own social network site.
• Facebook.com: The most popular Social Network site today.
• LinkedIn.com: A great tool for finding companies and other professionals.
• Twitter.com: Broadcasts updates frequently and quickly – all in 140 characters.
• Mozes.com: Pushes your Twitter updates to cell phones as SMS text messages. Great for coordinating one-off events and volunteers.
• Wordpress and Typepad: Easy to use blogging platforms. Wordpress is free and open source, Typepad is free with the option to pay for upgrading. Both publish to RSS.
• Mailchimp and iContact: Both are mass mail programs you can use for free with the option to pay for more features.