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What You Need to Know About Nonprofit Social Network Use

NTEN

Remember those halcyon days of yore when the phrase "social networking" was suffused with golden light? Let's create a Ning site! Ah, 2008, you are missed. If your organization isn't measuring the results of its social media initiatives, you may be wasting time and effort. Try Causes!

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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

To follow up on Monday’s post about why nonprofits should consider hiring a social media manger , below is an excerpt from Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits that helps further explore the time commitment necessary to create and sustain a comprehensive social media stategy for your nonprofit.

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My Top 16 tools of 2008

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Elgg is the open source social network management system. Don’t use Ning, use Elgg. I love discovering new music, seeing what people I know are listening to, and learning more about what I listen to over time. So what tools did you come to depend on in 2008? SaaS Tools. I love last.fm. Proprietary Tools.

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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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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. As of today TuDiabetes has almost 10,800 members and EsTuDiabetes has almost 5,400.

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How To Get a Wikipedia Page for Your Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Our earlier attempts at getting a Wikipedia page up were focused on a page about TuDiabetes, the diabetes social network we run in English. The results when we posted a TuDiabetes page on Wikipedia in 2008 were disastrous. Don’t waste your time or loose your account’s credibility in the process. Last few tips.

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Yahoo! Supports OpenSocial; Yahoo!, MySpace and Google to Form Non-Profit OpenSocial Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The OpenSocial Foundation will be an independent non-profit entity with a formal intellectual property and governance framework; related assets will be assigned to the new organization by July 1, 2008. Facebook is credited with starting and fueling the development of social network applications. a public benefit???) s not easy!

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