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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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How To Get a Wikipedia Page for Your Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The results when we posted a TuDiabetes page on Wikipedia in 2008 were disastrous. Last few tips. It helps to get a copy of a book like Wikipedia: The Missing Manual , but you don’t need it as much these days as you used to back in 2008 when it first came out.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » New York Times Deathwatch

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Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape, Ning and an internet thinker (and billionaire), wrote a post today on his blog called Inaugurating the New York Times Deathwatch. 11 Feb 2008 Michael Hoffman Michael, thank you for your reply. 11 Feb 2008 Michael P. 14 Feb 2008 Yahoouj Really good work about this website was done.

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Collaborative Technologies for Social Impact: How Survivors Connect leverages the web and you can, too!

Amy Sample Ward

In 2008, Aashika graduated from the University of California, Berkeley; she is now working on her Masters in Philosophy in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK where she’s a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar. Ning allows you to build your own public or private online network with various pricing options.

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The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

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In 2008, I helped start the Frozen Pea Fund against breast cancer. ThePort, Ning) Multimedia content sharing is a powerful tool for storytelling, providing content that is easy to share and embed. As a victim of a "twitterstorm", I have a few survival tips. Have you heard of Motrin Moms ? Amazonfail ?