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Facebook Causes offers short URLs for easier marketing

Joe Downie, Website Manager at WaterAid yesterday told members of the charitywebforum that users of

Facebook groups and events just got more important

According to Nick O'Neill's "allfacebook - the unofficial facebook blog", Facebook has now given Google access to index the content in its users' groups and events sections, or at least those that use

Justgiving Facebook app installed over 100,000 times

Online giving site Justgiving have announced that their Facebook app, which lets sponsored event participants promote their event via th

Become a Facebook fan of Oxfam

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:

Finerday, an older folks social network, set to launch next week

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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Aspinall Foundation launches monthly giving Facebook app

Aspinall Foundation Facebook app

The Aspinall Foundation have launched a new fundraising application on social network site Facebook.

Causes Facebook App celebrates 1st birthday - but surely there's more potential for Facebook fundraising?

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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Easy widget creation - now anyone can make a Facebook App

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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'Must read' free Ofcom report on social networking

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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Are social network users older than you think?

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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