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06.20.09Towards a New Kind of Nonprofit Website, Part II've been doing some research lately on building websites for a political advocacy group, Asian Pacific Americans for Progress (APAP). I haven't been posting lately because I went down a VERY, VERY deep Drupal, information architecture and SEO rabbit hole for the last few months. I would have written this post sooner but I really wanted to confirm a lot of my thoughts first with site traffic measurements. Basically, this is a story of how a very small political advocacy group went from zero to hero in roughly six months. This is going to be a long post so let's ...
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08.12.08Blackbaud NetCommunity DemoWell, I knew it would happen sooner or later but Blackbaud has finally done it. They're starting to do what was once possible only by hiring a team of developers and spending a large sum of money with version 5.5 of Blackbaud NetCommunity (BBNC). What is it I'm talking about? The wholesale merging of social networking with your fundraising tool. BBNC developer Tim Wolf gave me a tour of BBNC last week. Continue Reading...
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05.07.08Do nonprofit Facebook apps fail because they’re too useful?Great blog post over at Futuristic Play which details an exchange between Andrew Chen, the blogger at Futuristic Play, and Ben Rattray of change.org. Actually, it's more of a posting of an e-mail that Ben Rattray sent to Andrew Chen regarding the future of Facebook apps. It's a good introduction to the problems faced by would-be Facebook developers. You can summarize the problems as: Too many apps for limited attention capacity of Facebook users Too many invites from other apps lower adoption rates for all apps (including your own) by Facebook users Useful apps have a tougher time getting users than social or ...
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01.28.08Project Agape’s Causes Does Not Report December NumbersIn September, we had a bet on this blog as to how much money the Causes app would raise in December. My guess was that Causes would raise $825,000 in that month. I based that on a projection of around 3.3 million users in December with an average $0.25 donation. That's right -- I thought Causes could surely raise a quarter per user in December. Joe Green verbally agreed to releasing the pertinent figures for December. I sent e-mails to Joe Green and Susan Gordon at Project Agape asking for their December numbers. I haven't received any word from them and ...
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10.31.07Why the vast majority of nonprofits can’t take advantage of OpenSocialSo here we go again! Another major step in the development of a new social networking platform is set to release tomorrow. Google and a panoply of other social networks have decided to one-up Facebook and create a super-platform whereby developers can create one application that can be served over Orkut (Google's social network), LinkedIn, Hi5, Ning, Plaxo, and Friendster. Oddly enough, salesforce.com is in this mix too but it's hard to understand how they can be a part of this unless your app can be added through AppExchange. Continue Reading...
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10.19.07Convio Facebook App not recommended for use right nowEvery so often I read in the nptech blogosphere articles that I consider to be problematic. I just read one today that stated that the Convio Facebook App is better than the Causes App on Facebook. Apparently, the major claim to fame is that people within a Convio Facebook App can now directly sign-in to an organization's CRM. Another added bonus is that content from a Convio-powered Web site can be integrated with a Facebook App. Unfortunately, you can only run one Facebook app at a time using the Convio tool. There are multiple problems associated with the statement and here's ...
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09.29.07More Facebook charity App newsWith some amazement on my part, it looks like the Razoo Speed Granting application has definitively overtaken Change.org's Facebook app and is now the second most active Facebook charity app. Of course, both Razoo and Change.org are far behind Causes which is nearing the five million mark and probably pass it by next week. As the chart shows, Razoo Speed Granting will soon be at around 500 active users a day. Razoo launched in late June 2007 and quickly rose in the last few months to grow to greater usage. What's their secret? I don't know. I'll ask for an interview ...
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09.08.07Bet on Facebook Causes!Well, it looks like we have two takers, myself and Bill Templeton. We've been beating each other up on a comments stream about whether or not Project Agape is a runaway success and now is the time to place the bet we discussed in the comments. Continue Reading...
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08.29.07Facebook changes the numbers!Jon Stahl points out that Facebook is no longer measuring apps by raw number of users but by their engagement. There's more info at the Facebook blog. So how does this play out for charity apps on Facebook? Well as of 10:38 PM EST on 8/29/2007, here are the stats for charity Facebook Apps: App Name % of active users Active users per day Firstgiving 14% 34 Causes 6% 203,182 Change.org 4% 288 Razoo Speed Granting 3% 207 Chipin 1% 39 Clearly, there's room for better user engagement within most of these charity apps. Causes is still the 800 lb. Gorilla of the Facebook charity app world. What's even more interesting is that Causes is also the biggest political Facebook ...
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07.03.07Change.org is now on Facebook!Ben Rattray must have had one heck of a release timeframe since he's just e-mailed me at 4:55 AM his time to tell me that change.org has just released on Facebook. His hard work has produced one of the slicker integrations I've seen out there in the Facebook apps world. Almost everything change.org has is implemented within Facebook. The only thing missing (and soon to be added) is the "Actions" portion of change.org where you can: Start email campaigns targeted at your state or national representatives Organize volunteer events and rallies Make committments with friends to help advance change in your daily ...
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