How much does it cost to have your original news stories appear on Yahoo News? Have you done the same for Google News?

Hello, This is Sharon from Rare. We train and support to a global network of local conservationists and are developing an online community to support their collaboration, innovation, and collective impact.

I have three questions and you can answer any you see that are relevant here:

1) Is there a space on your site where members collaborate to solve different issues or else develop tools?

2) Also -- do you find that your most of the communication/discusssion that happens on your site is between partners, between the general public and partners or else between the general public with each other?

3) Finally, can you speak about the balance of your staff facilitating the community and encouraging people to participate versus the community developing organically on its own?

Thank you so much!

Sharon Price
Manager, Global Alumni Network
sprice@rareconservation.org

In regards to the question about about volunteerism, there is a great article I found called The Ten Commandments of MySpace Advocacy. You can read it here:
http://www.mrss.com/news/Ten_Commandments_of_MySpace_Advocacy.pdf

Josh
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice

In response to the questions during the call about how to decide which social networks to use, I found a few articles that may be helpful.

"Top Social Networks: The Summer of Social?"
http://blog.compete.com/2007/07/24/top-social-networks-june-myspace-facebook/
This article presents some great comparisons and recent data regarding a variety of social networks.

"The Social Networking Faceoff"
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_network_faceoff.php
Though this article is from Sept 2006, it has some important demographic information that is still valid.

We got a question about creating tracking urls to see who is visiting your site from the social networking sites.

Here's an article titled Tracking Tips and Suggestions.
http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/fi_FI/rc/srch/track_tips.php

Thanks for sponsoring this, Roshani.

A couple of quick notes - for everyone interested in leveraging the latest web technologies for their specific nonprofits, there are a few websites you should be familiar with:

http://www.nten.org/ - nonprofit technology community - great place to ask questions from knowledgeable, caring people.
http://www.netsquared.org/ - division of Techsoup (another site with which you should be familar)

And finally, I invite you all to check out Razoo.com - the startup social network around social justice and environmental issues. We're sponsoring a $10,000 contest that your nonprofit can easily win - more here: http://beta.razoo.com/win10k