Salesforce.com is a popular cloud computing customer relationship management (CRM) database that’s used by tens of thousands of companies around the globe. Nonprofits are utilizing Salesforce CRM to manage donors, activists, community members, contacts and more. Through the Salesforce.com Foundation product donation program, qualified 501©(3) organizations are able to receive a donation of 10 Salesforce CRM licenses. If you want to learn more, join us for this upcoming free webinar.

Many nonprofits and libraries are using Facebook to interact with their constituencies and reach out to new audiences – but what’s the best way to get your organization started on this hugely popular social networking site?

In this webinar Kami Griffiths will interview social media consultant John Haydon, who will walk through the essential steps to establishing and managing a successful Facebook presence for a nonprofit or library. We will also hear from Gabe O’Neill of Kids Are Heroes, who will share lessons learned from developing their own Facebook page. Get practical how-to information, learn best practices, ask questions, and leave with action items that will help you create an engaging Facebook presence for your organization.

What would you do if you could build a non-profit website from scratch without worrying about any integration issues?

It’s exactly what I’m doing at the moment. In this post I’m sharing my ideas and I’d love to hear your’s.

http://sm4good.com/2010/03/01/nonprofit-website-scratch/

I have been using Flickr for about two years to increase visibility of the work of Red Cross Red Crescent. Today, I’d like to share some of the lessons I’ve learned.

Why Flickr?

I believe that most non-profits spend too much time preaching to the choir. Flickr is a great website to show what your organization is doing and why it is doing it to people whom you haven’t been able to reach.

http://sm4good.com/2010/01/11/flickr-nonprofits-lessons-learned/

Recent announcements by Google make me think, that the company might go down a path that would ultimately mean more inequality, a worse position for developing countries and a widening digital divide.

I’m referring specifically to Chrome OS, Google’s new operating system, and the announcement that Google would dump Google Gears, a service that makes it possible to use services like GoogleDocs offline. In both cases, Google emphasized the importance of cloud computing as opposed to working offline. The idea is that all data, i.e. your spread sheets, your documents, your photos, get stored on remote servers (a.k.a. "the cloud") and none of it on your machine.

Read more on: http://sm4good.com/2009/12/21/google-cloud-search-giant-widening-digital...

NonProfit 2.0 Unconference is coming to Washington, D.C., February 12, 2010, and promises to be "more than just a conference on the next generation web."  Plus, if you register soon you can get a 20% discount! Simply use "HolidayDiscount" when you register for the Nonprofit 2.0 Unconference here.

FutureLab ("An Online Challenge for the NonProfit Community to Chart a Vibrant 2020") has just been launched by Independent Sector, and it provides an exciting new opportunity to share thoughts about the challenges and opportunities facing the nonprofit and foundation community now and in the future.  This site is essentially a nation-wide conversation about important nonprofit and philanthropic issues where you can share ideas and get feedback from others working in similar fields. 

FutureLab is open to anyone who has opinions and wants to contribute to the discussion - no official position necessary. 

This Thursday, ReadWriteWeb is bringing together industry leaders of the Real-Time Web - from social networks, financial services, media, nonprofit groups, and more - for a the ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit in Mountain View, CA, USA.  Tickets for nonprofits are now half off (see below).

That's right: Today is the first day of Mozilla Service Week!  This week, thousands of volunteers have signed up and over 10,000 hours have been pledged to make a difference in our communities, our world, our Web. This week is about using the Internet to make life better, and its not too late to get involved!

Learn more about Mozilla Service Week and get involved!

Disclaimer: I am not an attorney. The following post cannot and should not be taken as legal advice (it isn’t). It’s just meant to give you references to consider your legal options as you are deciding what is the best course of action for you to pursue in order to get your not-for-profit idea off the ground and to make it sustainable.

When you want to create social change there are several ways to accomplish it. You can do it by being part of a larger organization (a for-profit with a deeply engrained social credo and a track record of socially responsible behavior or an established nonprofit that you feel identified with), you can start your own nonprofit organization or you can go at it alone. Right? Well, sort of.