The long tail concept comes to life in the hundreds of thousands of niche communities that are exploding on to the social media scene. discovered that when it comes to dishn' with your virtual girlfriends the communities are as diverse as well .. In addition to communities for moms, the focus ranges from cars to sports to business to age and status to cultural niches. Social networks .. they're not just MySpace, Facebook or even Twitter.

Last week an interesting new initiative was launched by the team at Social Actions – whose open source database of microphilanthropic opportunities from over 50 different non-profits I wrote about in April this year. The social entrepreneurs on the database range from representatives of non-profits to individuals working within their own communities, but all have in common the fact that they have been formally recognised for their work by the organisations that have contributed the data. This time they have brought together data from a number of different social enterprise funders to create the world’s first open source database of social entrepreneurs who have who have won fellowships and awards.

Be certain that not only the nonprofit's community in general (its donors, volunteers, and community partners) know about its mission (don't assume that they do), but also be certain that they know about the organization's goals that its set for itself this coming year (the goals, anticipated achievements, and the reason each of these are needed by the community). Get the internal team clear, excited about their contributions in 2010 to this goal, and get the entire team onto 'one page' and empowered to meet the challenge of the goal. __ Value the reason for the mission

Partly because it is the latest of a number of innovative online community fundraising developments to recently come from the Netherlands, where the whole concept of online community fundraising has really taken off over the last 18 months or so . Pifworld project updates are also video-based, so you can really see (and hear) what the team have been doing with your donation. Just a few weeks behind the originally planned launch date (which is pretty impressive for a development of this complexity) the online fundraising site formerly known as Play it Forward and now renamed Pifworld went live over the weekend.

It’s a team sport. Pifworld Community Fundraising 2.0 Community fundraising Social networking Online fundraising Play It Forward Holland Nationale Vakdag Fondsenwerving crowdfunding PIF Web 2. A month ago, one of the big discussion topics at the Nationale Vakdag Fondsenwerving conference in Holland was Online Social Network Fundraising so it was great just after the event to spot a new online initiative coming from Holland looking to capitalise on the supporter engagement opportunities now available through Web 2.0. Play It Forward (named after the movie , presumably)

The podcast will introduce our session at this year’s NTC called Diversifying Your Tech and Online Communications Teams and is meant to be a teaser to get you there. But, how diverse are your tech and online communications teams? And, do your teams’ demographics impact your advocacy success? This beautiful photo is by chrisjfry . I’m doing a podcast ( my second ) today with my frolleagues Holly Ross, Executive Director, NTEN (Nonprofit Technology Network) and Allyson Kapin, Founder, Rad Campaign . Shireen Mitchell of Digital Sistas and Ivan Boothe

Her post and all the comments are worth reading and considering carefully, but the most powerful words (IMHO) are contributed by Brian Reich: "To be successful today, you must focus on the content - the substance of what you do, and whether that provides something to the community, or audience, that is valued. OK, nonprofit leaders, managers, fundraisers, social entrepreneurs, capacity builders, funders, enthusiastic art appreciators, community culture leaders, artists, donors, sponsors, teaching artists: so what shall we do to enliven, enrich, engage and work these arts and info cultural

Over time, advice provided by the Causes team has been supplemented by advice shared by others – which in many cases has been spotted and also passed-on through the Causes Exchange blog. This is good news for online community fundraisers, as it introduces an older generation of online charity supporter likely to have greater disposable income and a greater inclination towards supporting nonprofits financially. ...Tags: Great news from the folks behind ‘Causes’ last week, with the announcement that they just passed the $10m point in donations since launch back in May 2007 .

Last week an interesting new initiative was launched by the team at Social Actions – whose open source database of microphilanthropic opportunities from over 50 different non-profits I wrote about in April this year. The social entrepreneurs on the database range from representatives of non-profits to individuals working within their own communities, but all have in common the fact that they have been formally recognised for their work by the organisations that have contributed the data. This time they have brought together data from a number of different social enterprise funders to create the world’s first open source database of social entrepreneurs who have who have won fellowships and awards.

He goes-on to examine what can be learned from Obama’s grassroots fundraising activity as a guide to how to make quantum fundraising happen as well as to highlight what he believes to be one of the Obama team’s few errors – going against the quantum fundraising idea by trying to maintain the community that formed to get him elected when the mass of those involved have moved-on to other things. Tags: Online Campaigning Online advocacy Online fundraising Social networking Bryan Miller Community Fundraising 2.0 There’s an interesting article by Jon Duschinsky in the latest edition of the Resource Alliance eNewsletter, where he introduces the concept of ‘quantum fundraising’ as a way of explaining how people increasingly want to come-together online to make something happen – but then to disband and move-on to do something different elsewhere.