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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. Go forth, and socialize!

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My Top 16 tools of 2008

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. Having been bogged down with my own open source CMS tool before 2005, then having taken a break from development, I missed out on the prime years of Drupal’s development. Don’t use Ning, use Elgg.

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What OpenSocial Means

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Be Helpful.

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Explaining Open Social to Your Executive Director

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you are the Internet marketing person or responsible for your organization's web strategy, how does this impact your strategy? What is Openness? Platform??? where your mini-application can extend to: MySpace, Bebo, SixApart, Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, Viadeo and Oracle. Container???

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. One hopes that once the CyberYenta solves her blogging platform issue , she'll jump on a job posting widgets for that nonprofit job list.). What do you think?

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Looking at Wave

Judi Sohn

On the surface, it appears to be a platform that allows for real-time rich media collaboration with a Google spin. Kind of like if Ning , Google Talk , Gmail , Twitter and Facebook got smooshed together into a single open source environment. I don’t want the Internet to just throw data at me.

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Social Network Management Systems?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Think a whitebox version of Ning, or Facebook. 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. What do these tools allow you to do? They allow you to create stand-alone social networks.