LinkedIn is an online social network for business professionals. It's different than other social networking sites, because it is designed for professional networking - connecting with potential partners or finding a job - rather than simply making friends, sharing photos or music.

A free and easy way to promote your NGO is through Facebook. With over 500 million active users, it is necessary that NGOs utilize the social network to promote their goals and activities. However, on Facebook are three options - a Profile, a Fan Page and a Group - and it is crucial to know which one will best serves your needs.

Jumo, launched by the Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, offers an unprecedented hub for non-profit groups and organizations: it aims to be a social network for social causes.

Twitter or micro-blogging. In other words, the possibility to post on your account short messages of 140 characters maximum. More verbal logorrhoea, concision and especially massive amount of links. Twitter is like helping information, improving its spreading.

It has become natural to have an account in facebook or in any of the hundreds of social networks available in the internet. Through them we, as individuals, create societies united by certain features in common. Scoutle allows you to socialize in the network too but this time as a blogger.

The famous tool or social network twitter surprises us by the number of networks that it has been creating: there are groups that talk about health, searching for missing people, investigation matters, all those topics that one may arrive at the asking What are you doing?. The result is such that, depending on how you use the network, it may be very useful to your organization.