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NpTech Tag Summary: Putting the U in YouTube, Some Cool Events, and Electronic Sheep Dreams

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. NetSquared. Net Tuesday Seattle has been in the local press too! Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! NpTech Talk.

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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. 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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NpTech Tag: Stop Cyberbulling Day is Today!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. For next week's summary, I'm going to be using a different aggregator called index cards. Ning is a platform that allows you to create your own social networking site. A few blogosphere posts offering advice about online safety and what you can do help stop cyberbullying can be found here.

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Facebook, Open Social, Networked Relationship Building, and Leveraging Social Capital

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The summary is available on TechPresident here and backstory is here. TechPresident had a nice summary of this announcement. Ning founder Marc Andresen notes "Open Social is an open way for everyone to do what Facebook has done. I can't add much to David and Susan's smart comments. More coverage on Google's Open API.

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How To Get Started Thinking About Online Peer Learning Communities for Nonprofit Professionals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We hope the summary of what these individuals shared, while is not exhaustive, will be of value to others working with (or considering the establishment of) online communities. Ning – Popular with nonprofits, reasonably priced, may require some customization. Community Management Services and Platforms.

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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. 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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