Acquiring fresh and effective mailing lists has always been a challenge for nonprofit organizations, and the business has been undergoing major changes over the past decade or so. With the rise of the Internet, the addition of email addresses to physical addresses has had a wide impact on nonprofits of all sizes. Meanwhile, predictive modeling tools have become much more robust and sophisticated over time. Read more...

NPTech News recently spoke with Lee Brenner, MySpace.com's executive producer of political programming and director of the nonprofit oriented Impact section at MySpace.

Nonprofit Technology News: What kind of applications and other assistance do you provide to nonprofits?

Brenner: We've worked with hundreds of nonprofits from very small ones to large international nonprofits to assist them in utilizing the tools of MySpace. We have a relationship with PayPal so they can do viral fundraising, which is free for them. They can put a viral fundraising widget on their page and that can out among other users, who can put it on their own pages. They can literally have a viral fundraising team. Read more...

MAYA Design’s Director of Advanced Development, Josh Knauer, talks with NPTech News about his company’s Information Commons project.

NPTech News: What’s your “elevator pitch” description of Information Commons?
Knauer: Information Commons provides an open architecture database that allows for communities to share information among organizations, agencies and individuals in a much more effective way than current database systems allow. Read more...