Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

(an easy way to approach this is by updating information in the group/fan page every time you send out an enewsletter or action alert). Some of the most common issues that people like to periodically clean up include: pluralizations (tag for “blooddrive&# and “blooddrives&# ). Social Actions. Communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

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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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

A robust knowledge sharing network might involve people sharing resources, best practices, worst practices, just-in-time information, quick tips, and deep thinking, all focused on a specific topic. Although it has its own blog, and most of the members are on Twitter and Facebook, all of the action takes place on Friendfeed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

Naturally, my colleagues and I have taken the lead in establishing our organizational presence on sites like Facebook, Twitter, Ning and posting to our blog. We called on our network to take action with emailed action alerts, phone calls and posting messages on Twitter and Facebook.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Did you know that the fastest growing demographic on Facebook is people who are 35 years old and older ?). What are people already saying about my cause, or organization? Do you love connecting people? A social network like Facebook, LinkedIn, or Ning might be a tool to leverage your talents. What are their interests?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2007

And there are other days of the year where other people are fighting to raise awareness, like Safe Internet Day. ve created an online social network called Stop Cyberbullying using a free tool called Ning. Anyone who joins can post resources and share ideas, including text and video. Technorati Tags: stopcyberbullying

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Link listening and analysis to decisions or actions. By making a human connection with people online, you can influence their perception of your brand and help them find meaningful, relevant ways to support your mission. People don't understand that -- you have to give it time. Key skill is pattern analysis. 5 hours per week).

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Forum One

JANUARY 8, 2009

social network on Ning) and promptly received a welcome message encouraging me to get involved. A friendly, informal, and light-hearted tone helps people get comfortable and points out specific actions users can take. The more people we have, the more knowledge we can share, the better we can make government.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

The Democracy in Action Blog has a wonderful post about the most common typos that people make. Ning is a platform that allows you to create your own social networking site. We've already spotted a number of ning generated nonprofit related social network sites ( Cool n Conscientious , Stop Cyberbullying , Library 2.0

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Now I'm that grown up who stays up late building communities for my obscure personal interests on Ning, and aimlessly chatting with my long-lost friends from elementary school on Facebook, and even (cough, cough) playing on Polyvore. . After all, I was that kid who stayed up late playing video games. (Ah, how I miss thee.) Let's Grow Peaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Do you have a significant contingent of people networked via Facebook who are not joining your email list but are receiving messages, feeds, events, etc from you via Facebook? Are people just letting things evolve organically w/the presumption that the FB network activity will lead people to other involvement with their organization?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

The Horizon Project Wikispace is where teams of students and teachers from around the globe working on action learning experiments using these emerging technologies. How well will people remember to use them? Your face may not be there for people to see, but you should still act right. How were the tagging standards developed?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

A number of vendor applications and technologies also were presented, including act.ly , Legistalker , DataMasher , Drupal , WordPress , Democracy in Action , Joomla , Ning , GovLuv , You2Gov , GovLoop , Qik , TwitVid , Bit.ly , and GovPulse. Forum One was very interested in the opinions expressed by others at the event. technologies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

One thing I've come to appreciate Twitter is that it allows me read the thoughts, ideas, and musings of lots of smart people and thought leaders in many different disciplines. However, she did point out that there is actually a connection between Einstein and Social Media: Social media is like a FIELD / SPACE where people 'meet'.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Mashable has dubbed it one of the best places to watch great minds in action. SocialGiving , a Ning app that allows for peer-to-peer fundraising initiatives for Ning Network Creators was launched this week by PincGiving. Ning has been a popular platform for nonprofits to create communities of interest around their causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Will this lead to niche social networks that are more relevant to people's interests? Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. A Few NpTech Conversations. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2009

The second type is "house" which the survey has defined as a social network which is part of the organizations website, typically provided by a private or white label vendor like ThePort or Small World Labs or Ning. There are over 200 million people to be reached within these communities and their is no cover charge to get through the door.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

What do we mean by “community&# – question asked to the participants: people. We mean people. we mean a group being ‘led’ Community confusion: people rarely consider themselves part of communities offline. people are rarely members of just one community. We mean people. shared interest.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 20, 2011

The Survivors Connect online platform includes various opportunities for those wishing to report abuse, take action, or otherwise support the network of activists, and relies on a variety of collaborative technologies, from data mapping to online seminars, SMS-powered communications to an online community network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

Speakers ranged from Mayor Michael Bloomberg (via Skype), to online ethnographer danah boyd , consultants from the Obama and McCain ’08 campaigns (and the Obama Whitehouse), academics and thoughtleaders such as Mark Pesce and Clay Shirky , and techno-celebrities such as Craig Newmark ( Craigslist ) and Gina Bianchini ( Ning ).

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