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Ning: Phoenix or Fizzle?

Amy Sample Ward

Earlier this year, Ning announced that it would be dropping 40% of it’s staff and dropping the free service which came as a shock to much of the community, including author of the Ning for Dummies book Manny Hernandez and spurring many forums and blogs to create lists of Ning alternatives that were still free.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. The tag points to individual resources, but is that knowledge? tagging capabilities to keep things organized. Consider Ning, Basecamp, and Zoho. rating items.

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Sping Cleaning: Taking Inventory of your Social Media Tools

Amy Sample Ward

When it comes to a big, deep clean in your office, going through files, recycling lots of random print outs, returning long-borrowed manuals, and finding that secret stash of blue pens in the back of your desk drawer are all on the list. Check in on your tags and see if there isn’t any cleaning you can do! Delicious / Bookmarks.

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Collaboration for Funders: Use the Right Tools

Forum One

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. Tags: Influence Collaboration.

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Can Nonprofit Organizations Work More Like Clouds? How?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We also use flickr, wordpress, facebook, twitter, ning and we use a cloud based file backup called DataDepositBox, ADP for payroll - using their web interface, Vonage for phones. Tags: network effectiveness policy. First, we use a customized build of Salesforce, which the Salesforce Foundation has donated to us.

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Forum One Staff Share OpenGov Ideas

Forum One

Technical consideration: The site should be built on a non-proprietary platform rather than Ning to address privacy concerns. The Automated Export System (AES) is the paperless way to file the Shipper’s Export Declaration (SED) and the ocean manifest information directly to CBP. Tags: Influence Government.

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