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Online giving site Justgiving have announced that their Facebook app, which lets sponsored event participants promote their event via th
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How do you link your main corporate charity site to your charity's Facebook group or Facebook page? Facebook offers you a simple blue graphic which you can download and use:
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Contrary to the countdown on the Finerday holding page (which seems to have gone wrong as it currently suggests that it won't be live for over 106 years) this new social networking site aimed at 'older people and their families' is apparently all set to launch next Friday, 4th July.

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Last Saturday was an important anniversary in Social Networking terms, marking one year since Facebook launched Facebook Platform, the toolkit that enables the development of 3rd party Applications (Apps) that integrate directly with Facebook user data.

The same day was also the first anniversary of the biggest non-profit Facebook App, 'Causes' from Project Agape (now also available on MySpace) – and Project Agape marked the date with the release of statistics on its first year's activity.

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Ever since Facebook launched its open developers platform almost a year ago Facebook Apps have been all the rage, including a wide range of Apps developed in support of various charities. However, for anyone not especially into software development the idea of creating your own Facebook App may well never have occurred. Where do you start even if you want to have a go?

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Ofcom, the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries, has just released its first dedicated report on social networking in the UK. It's free to download and makes very useful reading - essentially an extremely well researched one-stop primer on the whole subject.

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A common question that crops-up when I'm discussing the potential for Web 2.0 approaches to supporter engagement is whether such things as Facebook and MySpace aren't just the domain of 'young people' (a flexibly applied term - usually defined as 'younger than our supporters').

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I'm afraid that a combination of some especially busy weeks at work and my home broadband going down for a while has left my blog rather sparsely updated recently.

However, I have had the opportunity to write a short piece for the e-newsletter of the Resource Alliance on one of the subjects I've been working on quite a lot recently - Community Fundraising 2.0.

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You know that Facebook and other social networking sites look a likely source of new donors and a good way to communicate with existing supporters.
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