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New on SSIR: Community Building in a Big Backyard

Amy Sample Ward

The internet is huge, there are literally countless platforms where people are forming community. The way I look at it, the issues and best practices are just as clearly linked to the idea of gardening as other community building approaches are in my previous post.

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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.

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Internet Strategy on the Cheap: Tools and Resources

Have Fun - Do Good

Tomorrow, October 18th, Eric Leland of Leland Design , and I will be presenting about, "Internet Strategy on the Cheap" at the San Francisco Bay Area Nonprofit Boot Camp. We've compiled a list of Tools and Resources to share with participants, and thought that you might enjoy seeing it as well.

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My Top 16 tools of 2008

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Don’t use Ning, use Elgg. This was the year for twitter. This was the year that nonprofits discovered twitter, and the year I integrated twitter into my workflow. Adobe Air is an impressive framework for rich internet applications. Elgg is the open source social network management system. Stay tuned.

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Online and Offline Community Building

Tech Soup

Megan posts the really tough questions on our Donate Your Brain blog and on TechSoup's Twitter feed , both of which have steadily developed hundreds of readers all over the world. He told me that a few months ago, they'd set up a social networking hub on Ning for friends and constituents of the organization to connect with each other.

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Observing the Networked Effect on a Networked Fundraising Drive

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Roger Carr, Everyday Giving Blog , signed up to help me with a Bloggers Campaign part of the Sharing Foundation's Americas Giving Challenge , Today, I observed a twitter exchange from Angela to Roger. I thought she might be referring to our campaign, so thanked her. Yes, indeed Laura is helping us out. Thank you Laura! Thank you everyone!

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Open Social Networks

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OpenSocializr – a Ning social network on OpenSocial (I guess that’s logical) OpenSocialBlog – an interesting blog about OpenSocial Why do I have the feeling that every domain with “opensocial&# is taken (opensocialblog.com, opensocialcats.com …) So why is this important for nonprofits? 2 admin 11.10.07