Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

His online communities are the most tech-savvy of the independent diabetes communities : Hernandez built it on social networking platform Ning, the company at which he worked before starting these online communities and his nonprofit. As of today TuDiabetes has almost 10,800 members and EsTuDiabetes has almost 5,400.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

He set up a Ning site Hurricane Information Center. Last summer, during the height of the hurricane season, Andy Carvin, interrupted his self-imposed summer blogging siesta, to help organize online efforts and coordinate volunteers in advance of Hurricane Gustav.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2008

Gina Bianchini, CEO and Founder of Ning. Allyson Kapin has a post on the Huffington Post called Cracking the Boys Club that shares her top 10 women pioneers of Web 2.0. I'm honored to be on the list along with some awesome women. Mary Hodder, Founder of Dabble.com and VP of Product Development, Apisphere. Sandy Jen, Co-Founder of Meeboo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2010

Manny is the author of Ning for Dummies, but he is also the founder of tudiabetes and estudiabetes , 2 social networks with more than 22,000 members. (And, if you are looking for ten ideas on real work for interns, Allison Jones , have found this useful post). Manny Hernandez.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

| View | Upload your own. Later today, I am speaking on a panel at the WomenWhoTech Conference. Hot Or Not? 5:15 PM EST Twitter! Panelists share their opinions on the latest trends in Web 2.0 and how organizations can effectively use them to build community as well as as how to measure the real ROI???s. Panelists: Heather Holdridge, Care2.com,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2008

She also just set up a social networking site on Ning where museum professionals are discussing the future of museums in a Web 2.0 We're trying to make that change in the organization now - we're using a private ning site to follow up with a strategic plan. The site is called Museum 3.0. " We're moving from No to Yes, If.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Manny Hernandez is a social entrepreneur, community strategist, president of the diabetes hands foundation , founder of tudiabetes and estudiabetes , author of ning for dummies. Regardless, watch it, share it and save a life. Note from Beth: On my way to Kenya for the Ushahidi Board meeting, so enjoy this post by Manny Hernandez.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Paul also shared a ning site he has set up called "Cool 'n Conscientious" Cool 'n Conscientious focuses on how emerging information technology tools and services can be leveraged to change the world - both the practical and relevant application of technology to address social challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

What are the best getting started tips for using Ning or LinkedIn for community building or sharing knowledge? This module takes a look at ways that you can build an online community, engage people and inspire them to take an action, or raise money using social networks and fundraising tools. We looking for tips, examples, and resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Manny Hernandez is a social entrepreneur, community strategist, president of the diabetes hands foundation , founder of tudiabetes and estudiabetes , author of ning for dummies. If you have any lessons you have learned from your experience with your Wikipedia page, I would love to hear them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Anol Bhattacharya, repeat donor to the other socially networked campaigns I've run for Cambodia, not only donated, but made two blog posts ( Soul Soup and here )and posted it to the Internet Times Ning Network created by Jay Cross. Thank you everyone!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

My colleague in Cambodia, Jinja, has set up a group on a special ning site. So we are saying technology should be used for equality, not to perpetuate violence. Read more about the issue here. How to Participate. The full call to action, packed with ideas and tips on how to participate can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Thom was kind enough to do an interview with me about their ning use that I will publish in the next few days). It was also wonderful to see some familiar faces like Thom Clark from Community Media Workshop - an organization that has done so much to inspire and help nonprofits leverage the power for social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Ning is a platform that allows you to create your own social networking site. We've already spotted a number of ning generated nonprofit related social network sites ( Cool n Conscientious , Stop Cyberbullying , Library 2.0 Tools and How They're Used. Do you find Web2.0 distracting, productivity drain ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2007

ve created an online social network called Stop Cyberbullying using a free tool called Ning. And perhaps we can use some of our energies that day to discuss what we can do to make online safety a topic that we deal with on a regular basis. Anyone who joins can post resources and share ideas, including text and video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2008

   So far that list includes the big ones like Facebook, Myspace, Ning, and LinkedIn.  For the social networking section the WeAreMedia tool box , we have included the definitive list of every social network in the world, but what would be really helpful to have the short list of where nonprofits have had some results.  

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

Naturally, my colleagues and I have taken the lead in establishing our organizational presence on sites like Facebook, Twitter, Ning and posting to our blog. It’s my job to listen to our members and empower them to get involved. It is obvious that our skills directly translate into establishing an online presence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2007

In the conversation around whether or not to use something like Ning or build your own platform - one of the drawbacks is that you don't get to keep your google ad revenue. I need to carve out some time to play with it. Steve mentioned another live streaming site similar ustream (blog tv?).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Gustav08 on Ning. Take for example this widget created by Cerada, Hurricane Gustav widget for iPhone, mobile device or Web site/blog , which allows you to list yourself and indicate whether you are offering. shelter, looking for someone or are an evacuee. The widget's resources. Gustav Wiki. Gustav podcasts from NOAA. How do I add a resource?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

James Joyner, Outside the Beltway, Enforcing Civility in Blog Comments Ross Douthat, Atlantic, Comment Moderation Policy Announcement Guy Kawasaki, Why Blog: An Interview with Darren Rowse (covers two questions on comment moderation) Wired Journalists Ning Site, What's Your Policy on Moderating and Editing Comments? by Ken Fischer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

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.??? The ultimate goal is for any social website to be able to implement the API and host 3rd party social applications. s not easy!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2007

If you have not already checked out the ning site that Andy put together, it's here. " First, and foremost, tommorrow is Stop Cyberbullying Day , an excellent idea that Andy Carvin suggested in light of the Kathy Sierra incident earlier this week. I will draw on it for my post tommorrow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

If you want to build an online community for knowledge or skill sharing, using social network tools like Ning or LinkedIN will help you get there. Community Building and Social Networking: You build relationships online, nurture a community, engage people and inspire them to take an action, or raise money using social networks and apps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

tools being deployed including Wikispaces, Delicious, Slideshare, Ning, Twitter, Meebo, YouTube and many others) We will students researching and experiencing social web enabled learning unfold on the wiki. The geeks out there will appreciate the array of Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

Where do branded social networks like Ning sites fall? Some definitions they used in the study: " House Social Network " refers to a socialnetworking community built on a nonprofit's own web site. " Commercial Social Network " An online community platform owned and operated by a corporation such as Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Observe is his photos in flickr , read his blog , follow him on Twitter , join his Ning community , and learn why you should care about poverty. .    Just study his YouTube Channel which has millions of views and lots of audience participation. Watch how tells the story of what he did and how it had impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2008

Leveraging Communities Has set up a Ning.  More and better interaction With podcasting you can also have subscribers, cmments, cross-postings, episode ratings, community chats, and mashups and more.   Was concerned whether she could support it - but what has happened is that people are talking to one another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. NetSquared. NpTech Talk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Ning founder Marc Andresen notes "Open Social is an open way for everyone to do what Facebook has done." More coverage on Google's Open API. Myspace, Bebo, and Six Apart Join Google Open Social from TechCrunch. Will Google's Open APIs Threaten Facebook? Details revealed from TechCrunch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

And if you don't want to give your content over to corporate giants or get paid pennies by having ads slapped on your stuff, maybe just created your own little YouTube with ning and there is always hosts like this and this. (An the choices continue to multiply, this beta from AOL, uncutvideo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

SocialGiving , a Ning app that allows for peer-to-peer fundraising initiatives for Ning Network Creators was launched this week by PincGiving. Ning has been a popular platform for nonprofits to create communities of interest around their causes. Follow his blog for expert Ning advice. Good Reads: Online. BackUpMyTweets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

where your mini-application can extend to: MySpace, Bebo, SixApart, Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, Viadeo and Oracle. Four months ago, Facebook allowed third party companies to build mini-applications in their site, this is similar in concept, but now includes many other players. ???Platform??? Platform???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Community Building and Social Networking: If you want to build an online community for knowledge or skill sharing, using social network tools like Ning will help you get there. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

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. What do you think? Meanwhile, a few scholarly articles on the topic. How and Why Nonprofits Are Using Web2.0 Sandra Dickinson has started an interesting discussion thread.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2013

Ning – Popular with nonprofits, reasonably priced, may require some customization. There is a wide range of services/venues upon which online communities can be built, including more generic ones such as Facebook, LinkedIn, email distribution groups, and others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

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. First, we use a customized build of Salesforce, which the Salesforce Foundation has donated to us. We use google docs, chat, spreadsheets etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

First off, I want to thank Andy Carvin for organizing this day and the ning site and leading by example - showing us how to take an issue and integrate the use of new social media tools! Looks other nptech bloggers and social networks are supporting this effort too!

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