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Free Alternatives to Ning

Forum One

Ning , the leading free social media platform provider has recently lost not only its CEO, but also about 40 percent of its workforce. Freshly-appointed CEO Jason Rosenthal posted last week , Ning will now "double down on our premium services business." Alternatives to Ning Document. We will phase out our free service."

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Ning for Dummies and Me 2.0 Book Winners

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I finally got a chance to meet Manny Hernandez, author written the " Ning for Dummies Book." He is founder of The Diabetes Hands Foundation, a non profit that operates two niche social networks for people touched by diabetes: TuDiabetes (in English, with close to 8,200 members) and EsTuDiabetes. Photo in Flickr. Drop a note in the comments.

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Sping Cleaning: Taking Inventory of your Social Media Tools

Amy Sample Ward

Twitter Karma is a great tool to use if you want to inventory your Twitter community, clean up any nonreciprocal followers, or simply evaluate your lists. 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). Give it a try! Groups & Pages.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

It implies not just “information”, but also understanding how things work. 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. Ask them: What type of information do you need to share?

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10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project

Have Fun - Do Good

A social network like Facebook, LinkedIn, or Ning might be a tool to leverage your talents. Facebook , Ning ) Social bookmarking (i.e. Are you, or the staff person who will be in charge of social media, using social media already, or will training be needed? Are you a natural writer? A blog may be a place to start.

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NpTech Tag: Stop Cyberbulling Day is Today!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you're at the conference, hand me an index card the URL of a web resource that you discovered in a session or informal conversation, write a brief description, and hand it to me while at the conference. Ning is a platform that allows you to create your own social networking site. I'll come with extra blank index cards.

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

Amy Sample Ward

In this way, information about scams or risks can easily be distributed to communities, or reports can be shared throughout the network. Working people and communities around the world can make sharing information and even just communicating a difficult task. How you can create an online collaboration space!