Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2008

She also just set up a social networking site on Ning where museum professionals are discussing the future of museums in a Web 2.0 The key is understanding your audience and their online social activities. We asked simple questions about their online activities. activities of visitors, particularly with school students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

Calling all bloggers to contaminate the blogosphere with activism on VAW for 16 days. to use them for activism against VAW (violence against women). My colleague in Cambodia, Jinja, has set up a group on a special ning site. My colleague in Cambodia, Jinja, has set up a group on a special ning site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

I am part of a large group of staff within our nonprofit that interacts with our supporters on a daily basis. 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.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

Many community platforms, whether simple or complex, offer a large number of options for user interaction: user-generated content contributions, discussions, groups, wikis, blogs, real-time communication, Twitter-like updates, photo galleries, collaborative file management, etc. Big visions often mean higher likelihood of disappointment.

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Forum One

JANUARY 8, 2009

social network on Ning) and promptly received a welcome message encouraging me to get involved. Receiving a welcome message within the first 24 hours of joining often makes a huge difference encouraging new community members to actively participate. Join some groups. Create your own group.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

WiserEarth itself would be an issues based social network but we also have plenty of place based sub-groups. . You can always start with a Google search but don’t forget to use group directories on WiserEarth , Ning , and Facebook. Why use them to spread your message? .

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 27, 2008

You can add your wdydwyd photo to the wdydwyd Flickr group , and join the wdydwyd Facebook group , or wdydwyd Ning group. wdydwyd activism You can see the Echoing Green Fellows' answers to wdydwyd on the Echoing Green home page. Full disclosure: I've worked for Echoing Green. Photo of me by the hubs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I created a Changeblogger Facebook group (thanks to a suggestion by Tim Zimmermann of Change/Wire ), and recently established the Changeblogger Network on Ning. changeblogger blog activism nonprofit and set up the Changeblogger Wiki , Changeblogger Twitter feed, and the first Washington D.C. Changeblogger meetup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

What are you doing to capture email addresses of your Facebook friends/cause joiners/group members? I am curious about how the network activity becomes part of (or relates to) the organizational activity. Of course, the above activities take time to care and feed the network. It happens one person at a time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

Where do branded social networks like Ning sites fall? Strategy My colleague, Allison Fine, in her analysis of the study wondered why groups would choose to set up a house social network rather than use a commercial site and what are the benefits and drawbacks of doing so?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 7, 2010

. —– I’ve talked about issues and ideas over the last year about the use of certain tools or platforms in the social technology for social impact sector, from Causes to Ideablob to Ning. Numbers do not equal Activity. Many tools—whether it’s a page, a group, or a network—focus on numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

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. Follow his blog for expert Ning advice. Good Reads: Online. BackUpMyTweets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2013

Ning – Popular with nonprofits, reasonably priced, may require some customization. BuddyPress – Works with WordPress but requires customization for some online groups. Pricing may be barrier for some groups (Setup Charge + $595 monthly fee). The following ones were suggested as more specifically focused for online communities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Niche Networks and Early Adoption (Instagram, Tumblr, Ning, Change.org, Care2, Wiser Earth, BlackPlanet, Quepasa, New Myspace): 5-10 Hours Weekly. LinkedIn Group spam is worse than ever. And its killing LinkedIn Groups. The growth rate of groups has slowed significantly in recent months. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

we mean social group. we mean a group being ‘led’ Community confusion: people rarely consider themselves part of communities offline. – If you use something like Ning does that platform share a part of the liability? &# do you think about online or offline? Do you think you are part of a community? moderation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Niche Networks and Early Adoption (Instagram, Tumblr, Ning, Change.org, Care2, Wiser Earth, BlackPlanet, Quepasa, New Myspace): 5-10 Hours Weekly. LinkedIn Group spam is worse than ever. And its killing LinkedIn Groups. The growth rate of groups has slowed significantly in recent months. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 20, 2011

Every day I field questions from organizations and community groups looking to use facebook, Twitter or YouTube. Most all of these groups are excited and enthusiastic but are coming from the wrong direction: focusing on the tools first. Communication tech, in a sense, is shrinking us as groups while increasing our ability to connect.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Once the above points are addressed, the following toolsets can be considered, along with their fundamental attributes: Social Networks allow for extensive networking, sharing personal interests, interconnecting groups, and sharing content with different groups. You can't be knee-deep in social media activism without it.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

“Many groups received significant numbers of gifts this past December, but the average size gift amount dropped, especially at the higher end.” needs to have a large following and active presence on online social networks. From asmallworld.org to facebook to any tiny niche ning community.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

A select group of these ideas are provided below. USAID contractors collect enormous amounts of valuable data as part of research, project implementation, and monitoring and evaluation activities. Suicide Prevention Data Set for Active and Reserve Soldiers. Young Diplomat Program. Department of State. Vote for this Idea - DoD].

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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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