Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 12, 2010

Your organization, whether it has an organizational presence there or not, has people interested in your services, programs, mission or cause talking about it and everything else all over the social web – from mainstream networks like Facebook and Twitter to niche communities on Ning or even forums (some branded, some not).

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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. Tags: Books. 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 12, 2010

On Twitter, there have been nearly 4,000 tweets including #bigbluetest in the past 11 days. Manny Hernandez is a social entrepreneur, community strategist, president of the diabetes hands foundation , founder of tudiabetes and estudiabetes , author of ning for dummies. Tags: Fundraising storytelling.

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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. We called on our network to take action with emailed action alerts, phone calls and posting messages on Twitter and Facebook. Tags: change management.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

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. Tags: tools opensource Open Source Software nptech. I use it to create sitemaps, mostly, but it’s also great for brainstorming. Stay tuned.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2009

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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Care2

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Communities like Facebook, Twitter, and Ning are great networks to help brand your nonprofit, engage with your supporters, and connect with potential new members. Tags: Care2 News. But there’s no question you need to invest time in finding those people who are passionate about your nonprofits issues.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

You can always start with a Google search but don’t forget to use group directories on WiserEarth , Ning , and Facebook. Usually that includes Facebook and sometimes Twitter but little else. Tags: NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. Search and select : Niche communities can be hard to find by their very nature.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Gustav08 on Ning. Inspired by the Twitter feed that Nate Ritter set up to aggregate news during the San Diego Fires in the Fall of 2007, Joe Solomon (aka EngageJoe) set up GustavFeed on Twitter. Claire Johnson from the Red Cross points us to the Red Cross Online Newsroom and is also giving updates on Twitter @redcross.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

Many community platforms, whether simple or complex, offer a large number of options for user interaction: user-generated content contributions, discussions, groups, wikis, blogs, real-time communication, Twitter-like updates, photo galleries, collaborative file management, etc. Tags: Influence Collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I follow Vicky Davis's blog, CoolCat Teacher Blog (one of my favorites, in fact her feed is in my "Circle of the Wise" folder) and she is also a twitter contact I follow. Lately, almost all her twittering is about her new obsession, the Horizon Project as well as a few blog posts. How were the tagging standards developed?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

and set up the Changeblogger Wiki , Changeblogger Twitter feed, and the first Washington D.C. I created a Changeblogger Facebook group (thanks to a suggestion by Tim Zimmermann of Change/Wire ), and recently established the Changeblogger Network on Ning. Rather than tag specific bloggers, I say, if you're inspired, pass it on!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Now I'm that grown up who stays up late building communities for my obscure personal interests on Ning, and aimlessly chatting with my long-lost friends from elementary school on Facebook, and even (cough, cough) playing on Polyvore. . Tags: NPTech NTEN Communications. After all, I was that kid who stayed up late playing video games.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

A number of vendor applications and technologies also were presented, including act.ly , Legistalker , DataMasher , Drupal , WordPress , Democracy in Action , Joomla , Ning , GovLuv , You2Gov , GovLoop , Qik , TwitVid , Bit.ly , and GovPulse. Tags: Events Government Transparency Strategy. This suboptimal use of social media and Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

tags: nonprofit socialmedia ). This idea came to me from Twitter. One thing I've come to appreciate Twitter is that it allows me read the thoughts, ideas, and musings of lots of smart people and thought leaders in many different disciplines. And, if nothing else, Twitter can be a terrific muse and stimulate creative thinking.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 7, 2010

. —– I’ve talked about issues and ideas over the last year about the use of certain tools or platforms in the social technology for social impact sector, from Causes to Ideablob to Ning. Tags: community otherblogs causes community building ideablob ning ssir tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

During the past two weeks, links shared via the #nptech hashtag on Twitter have been like a Chinese buffet, a huge selection of tempting dishes that look so good you want to fill an entire plate. To learn more about it, join the Mozilla crew and friends for a Twitter chat next Monday evening. Follow his blog for expert Ning advice.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Use the tag #MPS09 to follow conversations and highlights from others at the event. What Twitter isn’t… Twitter isn’t a message board, or a social network of people you already know… So, is it a community? What Twitter gives us: freedom. most proud of job at an adoption charity. moderation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

My practitioner brain went right into the weeds, or rather Twitter and I posted this question: I used the hashtag #answerbeth and lots of retreats and some responses: . "I Tags: network effectiveness policy. I think there's a portion of ppl in our org who are "cloud" people, but upper mgmt still resists it, hence a clash.".

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2009

Kind of like if Ning , Google Talk , Gmail , Twitter and Facebook got smooshed together into a single open source environment. As for Twitter, I think that works because what can be lower maintenance than SMS or a single simple column of short messages? Tags: Internet & Technology. Is that too much to ask, Google?

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. ThePort, Ning) Multimedia content sharing is a powerful tool for storytelling, providing content that is easy to share and embed. Get them on Facebook and Twitter.

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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! Andy's post yesterday describes how he is experimenting incorporating the use of Twitter into this campaign.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Then, they encourage others in the Flickr community to post their own images of the same plant and tag them "flickrplantproject." Brand awareness is often the driving reason for museums to have presences on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and other general-audience social media sites. Tags: evaluation marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

Speakers ranged from Mayor Michael Bloomberg (via Skype), to online ethnographer danah boyd , consultants from the Obama and McCain ’08 campaigns (and the Obama Whitehouse), academics and thoughtleaders such as Mark Pesce and Clay Shirky , and techno-celebrities such as Craig Newmark ( Craigslist ) and Gina Bianchini ( Ning ).

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