Got the message pasted below from Change.org the other day; also was forwarded an article on how facebook is opening up its platform. Links below.
I happened to attend a recent workshop on how nonprofits can use social media tools to advance their mission (http://nptechboston.wikispaces.com/). Our organization, SCI, is developing community portals based on Drupal and we hope there are features from Facebook we will be able to integrate now that the platform is opening up.
-Mike
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117971397890009177-wjdKPmjAqS_9ZZbwiRp_CoSqvwQ_20070620.html
http://developers.facebook.com/
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Subject: Change.org is partnering with Facebook.com!
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 14:42:57 -0700
From: Ben Rattray < ben%40change.org">ben
change.org>
Reply-To: Ben Rattray < ben%40change.org">benchange.org>
To: < mike%40socialcapitalinc.org">mikesocialcapitalinc.org>
Hey everyone,
Exciting news! Change.org is going to be integrating with Facebook over the next couple of weeks, meaning that your communities on Change.org will also soon appear within Facebook?s community of over 25 million members. Anyone on Facebook will then be able to donate directly to your organization through the site, highlight you on their profile, and invite their friends to join your organization.
We will still maintain our complete feature set at Change.org, but soon any activity on Facebook will also appear on your Change.org community and vice versa ? meaning the two sites will be completely integrated.
This is an exciting time for us and will help continue to expand our community, which is growing at a rate of more than 3,000 people each week. We expect the Facebook integration to exponentially increase this growth, and we look forward to having all the organizations on Change.org benefit.
If you have any questions in the meantime, please send them my way or email our community manager, Heather, at heather%40change.org">heatherchange.org.
Thanks!
Ben
Founder, Change.org
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