Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

What I am curious is how nonprofit marketing staffers are explaining this to their executive directors. Still, I'd love to know the answers to these questions: How do you explain to your executive director? If you are the Internet marketing person or responsible for your organization's web strategy, how does this impact your strategy?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

There are many websites implementing OpenSocial, including Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING.??? s director of product management, said ???The s not easy! A statement from Joe Kraus, Google???s

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

The internet "revolution" opens many new possibilities and the evolution of social media and ecommerce is now particularly suited new methods of revenue generation for Non-Profits. The target demographic is the internet. From asmallworld.org to facebook to any tiny niche ning community.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Think a whitebox version of Ning, or Facebook. What do these tools allow you to do? They allow you to create stand-alone social networks. Elgg, a LAMP(hp) project, started it’s life as a learning platform with social network features, but has transmorgrified into a social network platform with learning features.

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