Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 30 November, 2010 - 17:09
I just followed these instructions from the nonprofitorgs blog on how to Add your Nonprofit to Jumo, a new "social network for causes and nonprofits" that launched today. If you are using social networking to raise awareness and build community around your nonprofit, I recommend you take a look as well.
HOW TO: Add Your Nonprofit to Jumo (and Why You Should)
Jumo.com, the new social network for causes and nonprofits created by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes went live this morning. They have launched with a small number of nonprofits, but you can easily add your organization in just a couple of clicks (if you are a 501(c)(3) as defined by the IRS). It is worth noting that anyone can “Add an Organization” to Jumo, so this is one of those increasing common situations where nonprofits don’t really have a choice of whether they want to participate or not. Eventually, someone will add your organization for you. It’s better to be proactive and add your own organization as soon as possible so you can make sure it is done correctly.
That said, it’s too early to tell whether Jumo will take off and benefit nonprofits, but the chances look good. The site is fully integrated into Facebook which makes it much more likely to grow quickly than most other start-ups. Here’s how to add your organization:
1) Sign up for an account at Jumo.com. You do need a personal Facebook account to sign up. Once signed up, a message is sent to your Facebook News Feed letting all your friends know that you signed up for Jumo. It’s going to be a very Jumo/Facebook kind of day (the Jumo servers have crashed as I write this).
2) Select the Issues you care about:
3) Follow a couple of nonprofits:
4) Then from your new Jumo homepage, select “Add a Project.” Again, it’s worth noting that anyone can add an organization as long as that organization has an EIN number, but they can not be an Admin of your organization’s page on Jumo. There does appear to be a verification process [see #7 below].
5) Add your organization. I added WildAid, though I did not sign up to be an Admin for the page. Even then, I was quite surprised by how much information I could add for the page as a non-Admin. There are fields to add your organization’s Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and Vimeo accounts. Interestingly enough, you have to link your Jumo page with your organization’s Official Facebook Page to add a logo to your Jumo page. It becomes quite clear during this process that Jumo is fully integrated into Facebook. There’s all kinds of information that you can add about your organization. Just get in there are start clicking around!
6) After a few “Saves” [Save often! There are some technical glitches they still need to work out], you’ll have a new page for your organization. I’ll be watching WildAid’s new Jumo page over the next week or so to see how quickly it grows. It’s also worth noting that there is a “Donate” function, and like most Web 2.0 fundraising tools, the donations are processed by Network for Good.
7) Finally, if someone else adds your organization before you get a chance to, simply search for your organization and then select “Become the administrator of this page.” in the lower right where you will be prompted to “Verify” that your are the legal representative of the organization. You do need an organizational email address:
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From: Tobias Eigen <***@***.***>
To: ICT Peer Learning
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Sent: Tue, November 30, 2010 6:09:42 AM
Subject: [peerlearning] From nonprofitorgs bog: HOW TO: Add Your Nonprofit to
Jumo (and Why You Should)
I just followed these instructions from the nonprofitorgs blog on how to Add
your Nonprofit to Jumo, a new "social network for causes and nonprofits" that
launched today. If you are using social networking to raise awareness and build
community around your nonprofit, I recommend you take a look as well.
HOW TO: Add Your Nonprofit to Jumo (and Why You Should)
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http://nonprofitorgs.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/how-to-add-your-nonprofit-...
November 30, 2010
tags: Facebook, Jumo
by nonprofitorgs
Jumo.com, the new social network for causes and nonprofits created by Facebook
co-founder Chris Hughes went live this morning. They have launched with a small
number of nonprofits, but you can easily add your organization in just a couple
of clicks (if you are a 501(c)(3) as defined by the IRS). It is worth noting
that anyone can “Add an Organization” to Jumo, so this is one of those
increasing common situations where nonprofits don’t really have a choice of
whether they want to participate or not. Eventually, someone will add your
organization for you. It’s better to be proactive and add your own organization
as soon as possible so you can make sure it is done correctly.
That said, it’s too early to tell whether Jumo will take off and benefit
nonprofits, but the chances look good. The site is fully integrated into
Facebook which makes it much more likely to grow quickly than most other
start-ups. Here’s how to add your organization:
1) Sign up for an account at Jumo.com. You do need a personal Facebook account
to sign up. Once signed up, a message is sent to your Facebook News Feed letting
all your friends know that you signed up for Jumo. It’s going to be a very
Jumo/Facebook kind of day (the Jumo servers have crashed as I write this).
2) Select the Issues you care about:
3) Follow a couple of nonprofits:
4) Then from your new Jumo homepage, select “Add a Project.” Again, it’s worth
noting that anyone can add an organization as long as that organization has an
EIN number, but they can not be an Admin of your organization’s page on Jumo.
There does appear to be a verification process [see #7 below].
5) Add your organization. I added WildAid, though I did not sign up to be an
Admin for the page. Even then, I was quite surprised by how much information I
could add for the page as a non-Admin. There are fields to add your
organization’s Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and Vimeo accounts. Interestingly
enough, you have to link your Jumo page with your organization’s Official
Facebook Page to add a logo to your Jumo page. It becomes quite clear during
this process that Jumo is fully integrated into Facebook. There’s all kinds of
information that you can add about your organization. Just get in there are
start clicking around!
6) After a few “Saves” [Save often! There are some technical glitches they still
need to work out], you’ll have a new page for your organization. I’ll be
watching WildAid’s new Jumo page over the next week or so to see how quickly it
grows. It’s also worth noting that there is a “Donate” function, and like most
Web 2.0 fundraising tools, the donations are processed by Network for Good.
7) Finally, if someone else adds your organization before you get a chance to,
simply search for your organization and then select “Become the administrator of
this page.” in the lower right where you will be prompted to “Verify” that your
are the legal representative of the organization. You do need an organizational
email address:
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I appreciate your kind and encouraging response to my post. Please continue to give us feedabck on how you are benefitting from Kabissa and perhaps on topics you want to cover. It would be interesting to see how you get on with Jumo for social networking.
Please add Just One Person to the Kabissa directory - we'd be glad to showcase your work in the next monthly newsletter going out on Tuesday, December 14th.
Warm regards,
Tobias
Hi ICT Peer Learning members,
Let's see if we can share our experiences here with Jumo. I just signed up and added a Jumo profile for Kabissa - please go ahead and "follow" kabissa on Jumo and "like" it on Facebook. :) That way we can also connect on Jumo - let us know here if you create profiles on Jumo for your organization so we can follow and "like" you as well.
Here are my notes:
Overall first impression: I think Jumo shows promise and I like the idea of it, and would like Kabissa members to try it out and also use it to raise funds and create community around their work. But really the same concerns I have about Facebook extend to Jumo - they are very closely interconnected and I am not sure how this will all play out for African organizations seeking to take control over their own Internet presence and social media strategy. One example: like Facebook, Jumo adds profiles for organizations without asking for anyone's permission, and I think they take the info straight from Facebook which gets it from Wikipedia. Who puts it on Wikipedia? What we are trying to do with Kabissa covers some of the same ground as Jumo (and Global Giving, betterplace.org, etc) but our approach is very different.
Signing up: Yesterday, I experienced lots of problems signing up and adding Kabissa - probably related to many people trying to sign up at the same time. Most of those problems went away today, however I continued to have a problem with an odd error message "The data you supplied was invalid and could not be written" when adding categories that Kabissa works in. It turns out that if you use the same subcategory twice it gives you this error message - I'm surprised they didn't catch this bug in their testing.
What I like so far:
What I don't like so far/what's missing:
Giving feedback to jumo is not easy - they have a contact form, but then your message just disappears into the ether and you have no way of knowing they got it or you will get a reply. I'd prefer a forum.
How about you? How was your experience so far?
Cheers,
Tobias
Although I am hopeful that Jumo will serve a good purpose of connecting people with causes - so far my experience has been buggy and not very satisfying. I have signed up Solar Sister (follow us if you like!) after many many attempts that resulted in 500 error codes. I was finally able to connect it to the facebook page, and thought it would be fun to announce that we were on Jumo - so I checked the "update facebook" and wrote a little note. But instead of it updating on the Solar Sister page as I expected since I had just signed myself in as the Administrator, it updated on my personal home page on facebook...I am not sure how to change that - or if it is possible. Which means that any updates I put on Jumo will be posted on my personal facebook account? And I don't know how to post any comments or content on the Solar Sister Jumo page - other than comments from my personal account. I see that the news feed reflects postings about the "interests" I checked - but I don't really like having them show up in the Solar Sister feed when they aren't directly related to our activties. I went back in to change the 'interests' but got a 500 error code. I logged out and back in and tried to play around with it a bit and see if I could figure it out, but then started getting errors again. Too frustrating to devote time to it right now, so I decided to let it rest a while and then try again in a few days - maybe they will sort out the problems. In general, I am not sure what Jumo adds. I already follow most of the organizations I care about on facebook and twitter - so my newsfeed is already capturing their updates. Perhaps it will become clearer over time. But if they don't fix the bugs, then it will go the way of Google Buzz...
Thanks Katherine! Looks like you and I have had pretty much identical experiences. I'd suggest we all wait a few days like you say and then revisit Jumo then. I do think it has more to offer than Google Buzz, but the implementation is disappointing so far.
I was pleased today to receive a direct email back from the Jumo support team. Quick reply, but not sure yet how responsive they will be to adding features, categories etc that have been suggested.
Here's what I wrote to them:
And their reply:
Hello All,
Just stumbled upon Kabissa in a search for a Jumo trouble shooting situation and I'm so thankful - what a cool place to connect. Will definitely be using this for more than just Jumo in the future ....
But for now this is my experience and request. I love the idea of Jumo and setting up my account was quite trouble free but I can't seem to post on my organizations news feed. I can only post as my personal profile. Do I have to sign in as the organization? Does anyone know?
I read the above instructions - so detailed and the best I found so far - and I never got to step 6/7. They never asked me to confirm my email as an admin so I'm worried that I didn't really set it up right. I've tried to go back and look for the "I'm the admin" button but I can't find it on my page.
Does anyone have ideas?
At the very least, Jumo has been successful in connecting me to Kabissa. Let's see what else we can do with it!
Hi Natalie - Welcome to Kabissa! :) I too am glad Jumo has brought us together and look forward to your participation on Kabissa. Please be sure to also add your "be the change" organization in Kenya to the Kabissa directory so we can all learn more about the work you are doing. To do so, log in and click on ORGANIZATIONS and then ADD ORGANIZATION PROFILE.
The organization news feed on Jumo is pretty puzzling indeed - it contains lots of random stuff that has nothing to do with the organization and there is no way to control that. If you connect your Jumo page to your organization's Facebook page then your news from Facebook will also appear on your Jumo page. Since I have all Kabissa frontpage news go into Facebook, this means that Kabissa news is feeding into Jumo automacally - cool.
I also connected the @kabissa twitter account and now my tweets automatically appear in the Jumo "talk" feed for my organization.
Presumably for all this to be useful people need to start clicking alot on "like" next to news from Kabissa, which will hopefully cause it to appear on the news pages of other organizations on Jumo.
As regards becoming admin for your Jumo page - I'm not sure what is happening there. Were you able to figure it out? I did notice you have two pages on Kabissa for Be The Change Kenya which is odd.
Warm regards,
Tobias
How is everyone feeling about Jumo one week on? I'm feeling lukewarm about it. Only 10 new followers, so it seems not many people in our community are taking the time to log in. That probably makes sense while Jumo irons out the bugs.
Meanwhile the Jumo blog has been down the last few times I tried to access it. Today I was able to get in and the only new post since the launch features a CNN video about Jumo - nice interviews, but not much community support so far.
I am experiencing two fairly major bugs. I am unable to click into the field to update the Vision statement for Kabissa and there is random uncurated content from other sources appearing on the Kabissa page.
Yesterday, I expressed frustration in the "talk" space on the Kabissa Jumo page about an issue that I feel is a "deal breaker" for me:
I soon got a reply back from a Jumo employee:
And here is what I sent him by email. It will be interesting to see how they respond.
Look forward to seeing what comes next. Welcome feedback.
Cheers,
Tobias
Hi
does anyone has an idea about security on JUMO. I added two of my organisations and became the administrator. I did not give a phone number or personal details, just an email address. But after a day I've got a confirming mail from JUMO. Could it happen that other people, or more ppl., become admins to my sites?
thanx
Yusuf
Hi Yusuf,
Thanks for the reply. I am also completely puzzled by how easy it is to become admin for an organization, and worry about whether other unauthorized people can just browse around Jumo and set themselves up as admins for organizations that do not have admins already.
The Jumo FAQ for Organizations covers this topic but doesn't give any reassuring information about how administrators are verified. There is also no FAQ answer to the question "I don't see the become administrator link for my organization. what do I do?" or "Someone has hijacked my page! How do I get it back?" It is possible to report organization pages, but not indicate the reason why you are reporting it.
This scenario drives me crazy and is exactly why I propose Kabissa Connections to help African organizations take control over their Internet presence - see the section on "Disparate, Disconnected Profiles Hurt Organizations". US-based organizations benefit more from Jumo because organization profiles are tied to the nationally recognized Guidestar NGO database.
Cheers,
Tobias
So I have two issues with Jumo:
1. As remarked by others, I am very concerned that the Inveneo page I created just pulls in posts from Facebook, Twitter, and Google that are a mix of Inveneo content, posts that mention Inveneo, and content from the areas in which we focus - without my control over those posts. This makes it seem like we endorse those other posts.
2. On a greater level, if Jumo is just an aggregator, why should we care? Facebook has a greater name recognition, and we have greater control over it and our own site - with Facebook having a greater reach and audience than Jumo has or will ever have. Seems best to focus on Facebook (and our site), and let Jumo do whatever it does without paying it much attention.
Hi Wayan -
Thanks for the input on Jumo - I think we pretty much are on the same page. Jumo may still become relevant if they are responsive to community feedback.
Let's all follow each other on Jumo to provide mutual support and for shared learning about the platform - I am now following Inveneo, and welcome you to follow Kabissa. We've had 10 followers there for the last few days with no change which is already quite telling. :) Who else should we be following on Jumo for Africa?
On your points:
For Kabissa, I have decided to put the "working on" and "working in" info back in and to start using Jumo as they intend it, and will keep giving feedback to the Jumo developers as long as they continue engaging with me. I'm actually quite curious to see how Jumo develops and wish them well.
I have another blog post brewing, however, about what the future holds for social media and the web, and what the best ways are to help steer its development in ways that actually empower people and organizations while also allowing startups like Jumo to be profitable and sustainable. Kabissa Connections is part of that - and I welcome your feedback on that as well.
Keep the feedback coming here. Are you seeing bugs? What features are missing or should be changed?
Cheers,
Tobias
Dear Tobias,
**This post is about a week delayed because I wasn't a part of this group,
apologies**
Thanks for the warm welcome. I've loved being part of the community so far.
I'm adding BTCKE right now to the organizations page.
As a response to this and the "how is everyone feeling" post RE Jumo: I too
am feeling a bit so so about Jumo. I was really excited at first because I
had 4 new followers pop up right away but I've yet to see an easy way of
educating those followers about BTCKE unless I write on their walls - which
feels a bit invasive. Thank you Tobias for writing into the Jumo community
and expressing some of the frustrations/confusion that we are feeling.
Right now, it seems that Jumo is a better all out resource for people who
want to ascertain in a broad manner what is going on in the world of
community development work as opposed to getting a discrete idea of what
certain organizations are doing and how they can be involved.
Good news is that Hannah from Jumo removed the duplicate BTCKE from the Jumo
page. One win there!
Cheers!
Natalie Finstad
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On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Tobias Eigen <***@***.***> wrote:
> Hi Wayan -,.by) I think it's important is part
>
> Thanks for the input on Jumo - I think we pretty much are on the same page.
> Jumo may still become relevant if they are responsive to community feedback.
>
> Let's all follow each other on Jumo to provide mutual support and for
> shared learning about the platform - I am now following Inveneo
> and welcome you to follow Kabissa
> We've had 10 followers there for the last few days with no change which is
> already quite telling. :) Who else should we be following on Jumo for
> Africa?
>
> On your points:
>
> - It turns out that if you leave all the "working on" and "working in"
> info blank, you will get no news from other sources on your own Jumo
> organization pages. I have been having an email exchange with Jumo
> developers and they explained that, indeed, this feed from all sources comes
> from what you put in there. This is intentional - they are hoping to help
> people who care about the same issues you are working on to "deepen their
> engagement" about the issue. People "liking" content will move it up in
> priority on all pages.
>
> - While there doesn't seem to be so much to actually DO on Jumo right
> now (as aptly pointed out on twitter
> @katrinskaya
> to pay some attention to it because we may already be present on it without
> actually doing anything. Like Facebook, Jumo creates organization pages
> using content from other places - probaby facebook but maybe also from
> wikipedia and nonprofit databases like Guidestar. It also appears to be
> really easy to become administrator for a page, without a verification
> check, so if we don't beat someone else to it we may have a rogue profile on
> Jumo.
>
> For Kabissa, I have decided to put the "working on" and "working in" info
> back in and to start using Jumo as they intend it, and will keep giving
> feedback to the Jumo developers as long as they continue engaging with me.
> I'm actually quite curious tos ee how Jumo develops and wish them well.
>
> I have another blog post brewing, however, about what the future holds for
> social media and the web, and what the best ways are to help steer its
> development in ways that actually empower people and organizations while
> also allowing startups like Jumo to be profitable and sustainable. Kabissa
> Connections
> of that - and I welcome your feedback on that as well.
>
> Keep the feedback coming here. Are you seeing bugs? What features are
> missing or should be changed?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tobias
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Be the Change -- Kenya
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Mobile: +254716873101
Web: www.bethechangekenya.org
"You must *be the change* you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi
Thanks Natalie! Look forward to learning more about your work in Kenya and seeing Be the Change Kenya in our directory.
I think the conclusion to take on Jumo is that we should all take a look to make sure we are in control of our identity there and then we can safely ignore it and "wait and see" what happens with it. Kabissa has only 12 followers on Jumo as of today which is surprisingly low. There has not been much uptake.
Cheers,
Tobias
Jumo sent me an email this week announcing some major updates to the platform. If you recall (read this full post for a reminder) Jumo is a sister platform to Facebook that is geared towards social networking for nonprofit organizations. Where we had left off previously is that it is important for us all to claim our organization profiles on Jumo, but that it is not quite as relevant as the other major social networks like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn - so we don't need to pay active attention to it.
Now that it's upgraded, I do suggest you take a look and make sure you have control over your organization profile and that you like the way you are represented there.
As for the update - there are only two very noticeable improvements. You can now set a username for your organization, which is used in the URL. So for example Kabissa is now reachable on Jumo at http://jumo.com/kabissa - very nice, crucial feature in my mind.
Another obvious new feature is that you can now "care" about stories that appear on organization pages, which then affects their ranking (higher ranked stories appear nearer the top). This is similar to Facebook "like" or other social media platforms that let you "digg" or "flattr" content.
Otherwise I am still not entirely certain what the longterm prospects are for Jumo and how it fits into the constellation of social networking platforms out there. It is still a little buggy - I got some error messages as I was changing things around (eg when I changed the username to kabissa the next page I saw was an error - because the URL had changed). The Kabissa profile page also shows Kabissa "working in.." an empty location and I can't figure out how to remove it.
My least favorite Jumo feature appears to be the most important innovation of Jumo. If you specify "working on" categories, such as democracy, education etc, then content from other similar organizations features very prominently on your organization profile. I think this is a terrible idea because it makes it appear as though your organization is somehow involved in it or endorses it. I have now removed all those categories from the Kabissa profile and it only displays Kabissa content (the twitter feed, mostly), even though it means that Kabissa is not benefitting from Jumo's main networking feature.
Instead, I would like Jumo to offer me personally other content that is from similar organizations so that I can discover them. This could be in a prominently labelled column on the Kabissa profile page, but clearly separated from Kabissa content.
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