If you've been trying to "Like" links or other posts from a nonprofit Facebook page that you are an administrator, you may have experienced the way that Facebook treats those "Likes" as though they come from the page instead of from your personal account. Fortunately the fix is quite simple.

You may have heard about yesterday's rather rocky launch of Jumo, a new non-profit online networking space. We've set up a Jumo page to take a look around and it seems the dust is beginning to settle somewhat, although things are still rather patchy. According to the NYT, "[the] idea is to take the principles that helped Mr. [Chris] Hughes organize a network of volunteers [for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign] into a successful political force and apply them to a much broader universe of causes and issues." It's also described as a Yelp for charities: a space for people to connect to the issues and groups that they are interested in and also share those with friends and interact with them via comments, feedback, and donations.

When people share links to your site on their Facebook profiles, Facebook will try to scrape your page to find appropriate content and imagery to attach to the link. If it can't find the correct information, it will sometimes attach unrelated images to the link. If you want to better control your non-profit brand, you may want to manage what Facebook pulls in to shared links.

To follow up on a previous post about CEDC's new Facebook page, here's a slideshow on "Using Social Networks for Social Change" by Ivan Boothe. It's a quick overview of social media and social networks which you may find helpful if you're considering taking the plunge with your organization.

As part of the unveiling of our new online presence, we've set up a Facebook page and a Facebook cause for ourselves. Our goal is to make connecting effortless for people who work with the organizations that we are here to serve, and to make it easy to share the work that both we and our partners are doing. We invite you to become a fan of CEDC on Facebook, or to join our cause -- and if you are one of our partners and you have a Facebook page or cause, let us know: we'll add you to our page as well.