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How to Backup Your Ning Network Content

Wild Apricot

Recent changes in Ning’s business model (see News & Views About Change for updates) have Network Creators wondering whether to pay to keep hosting their online communities on the Ning platform, or to start looking at alternatives. Back in 2008, founder Marc.( read more ).

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My Top 16 tools of 2008

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Don’t use Ning, use Elgg. So what tools did you come to depend on in 2008? I use it to create sitemaps, mostly, but it’s also great for brainstorming. Elgg is the open source social network management system. Install it on your own server, control your own data. Stay tuned. It’s kinda cool.

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How Many Hours Per Week Should Your Nonprofit Invest in Social Media?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Niche Networks (Ning, Change.org, Care2, WiserEarth, BlackPlanet): 5 to 10 Hours Weekly. Ning allows nonprofits to launch their own social networking communities. If your mission is one that requires privacy, such as working with victims of domestic violence, try building a closed community on Ning.

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What OpenSocial Means

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Marc Andreessen, who is, of late, connected to Ning, has a great blog entry with details. Google has a number of partners, including social network sites like LinkedIn, Friendster and Ning, as well as Salesforce, which does have very interesting implications given the increasing use of Salesforce in the nonprofit sector.

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Open Social Networks

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

They haven’t really started yet, but hopefully it will be an interesting place to watch OpenSocial Directory – a directory of the apps that already exist to use OpenSocial (talk about caffeine and pizza!) Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Guest Post by Manny Hernandez: Transitioning From Social Media Cloud to Nonprofit Organization

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

His online communities are the most tech-savvy of the independent diabetes communities : Hernandez built it on social networking platform Ning, the company at which he worked before starting these online communities and his nonprofit. We decided to become a nonprofit in early 2008 and formed the Diabetes Hands Foundation in April 2008.

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What You Need to Know About Nonprofit Social Network Use

NTEN

Let's create a Ning site! Ah, 2008, you are missed. Remember those halcyon days of yore when the phrase "social networking" was suffused with golden light? New fundraising campaing? Try Causes! Need to build community? No budget for a web site redesign? Start a Facebook Page instead! Maybe it will work. Well, playtime's over.