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From Ning to Causes to Ideablob: Why We Need a New Way of Building

Amy Sample Ward

Last November we saw a few alarming events taking place in this social media for social good sector: Causes left Myspace and Ideablob shut down , both without warning or community support. Now, with the recent news from Ning that it plans to discontinue free service, I am revisiting those thoughts about “what’s really needed?

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The Cost of Free Technology for Nonprofits: Thoughts On Ning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been working in nonprofit technology since 1992. One of the projects I developed and implemented for NYFA in the late 1990s was called " KIT: Knowledge in Technology " where nonprofit arts organizations developed a strategic technology plan. Photo by Eurleif. Yes, I used to crawl under desks and plug in wires.). (Yes,

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Are Nonprofits Raising Money Via Social Networks?

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The 2011 Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report provides some incredible data on how 11K+ nonprofits are using social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and others. Are nonprofits raising any money on social networks? Facebook is the most popular commercial social network for nonprofits. Big Picture Data.

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Yahoo! Supports OpenSocial; Yahoo!, MySpace and Google to Form Non-Profit OpenSocial Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Just saw a press release from Yahoo, Google, and MySpace about OpenSocial Foundation. 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 not easy!

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What OpenSocial Means

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. What does this mean for the nonprofit sector? OpenSocial is a set of APIs.

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New on SSIR: It’s not about Apple – It’s about Community

Amy Sample Ward

It’s because this is another example of how our tools are defining community. ( Last month’s post focused on that topic using Causes, Ideablob and Ning as references for the conversation.) It sparked Beth Kanter to question whether Apple or Andriod is more nonprofit friendly. This is where things start to spark for me.

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WeAreMedia: Social Networks - Build the Nonprofit Social Media Tool Box

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Nielsen Online The We Are Media Festival of Tools is starts the last week of work on the Nonprofit Social Media Toolbox with a focus on social networking tools and widgets and apps.   The top social networking sites include some familiar names - Myspace and Facebook. And perhaps nonprofits?)