Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 16, 2010

Countless nonprofits flocked to Ning to create social networks. But now that Ning isn’t free anymore , I’m going to carp some. I think over the course of lo this last few years, I have blogged or tweeted about this very phenomenon what feels like countless times. Nonprofits find services for free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Andy Carvin launched the Gustav Information Center on Ning, and through social networks, word is spreading fast - the hash tag #gustav is being used. As we wait for Gustav to hit, Tom Watson gives us reflection about social media and Katrina -- How will the use of social media and with Gustav may it different this time.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Ning is a powerful tool that allows you to not only create a dynamic, easy to update website, but its functionality allows your community to create accounts, share information, connect with you and other people in your community and work collaboratively. Learn what it takes to get a Ning site set-up and the resources needed to keep it going.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 7, 2009

One of the things I wanted to share with you is other places that we can connect online: Twitter I get lots of requests to post about things, but don't always have time so lots of times I "tweet" links to stuff. I'm back from a relaxing vacation and feeling energized. We've got 172 members at the moment.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

To follow up on Monday’s post about why nonprofits should consider hiring a social media manger , below is an excerpt from Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits that helps further explore the time commitment necessary to create and sustain a comprehensive social media stategy for your nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Time Chart - See Flickr Discussion on Version 1 Wanna Remix it? Here's a question I get all the time: How much time and resources does it take to implement social media? In my presentations, I use a slide from Nina Simon's blog post called " How Much Time Does It Take To Do Web2.0 Download it here. In A Museum?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 19, 2010

It’s time spent I need for other things. I won’t miss the barrage of info I don’t need, or the time spent. I like being connected to the nptech community, and learning what’s happening. I really like reaching out and getting questions answered. But, being on those networks has taken it’s toll on me.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 1, 2015

Cleaning / cleansing – [KLEE-ning] / [KLEN-zing], noun. Also referred to as data hygiene, data cleaning is recommended as part of a larger donor data management strategy for nonprofits in order to maintain a higher quality of donor data over time. Refers to the worsening of data quality over time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

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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Care2

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

MySpace hit an all-time low with only 7% of nonprofits utilizing this platform. For the first time this year, quite a few newbies were added to the list of Social Network platforms: FourSquare, Jumo, Vimeo, Yelp, Picassa, Ning, Delicious, CrowdRise, FirstGiving, Razoo and Causes. LinkedIn is used by 1 in 3 nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

My friend, Manny Hernandez, founder of Tuiabetes Community and author of Ning for Dummies, let me know that today, November 14 is World Diabetes Day. Today, at 14:00 hours (local time), thousands of people with diabetes will test their blood sugar, do 14 minutes of exercise, test again and share their results on TuDiabetes or on Twitter.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2008

There are new types of software being developed all the time (like, for instance, the new crop of “ Social Network Management Systems &# both open source and SaaS, like Ning.). First, the software available, whether it be open source, SaaS, or proprietary, is much better all round.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

If you have been using Twitter for a bit of time now, you’ve probably come to the same realization that many others have—that it sure would be nice to be able to see your follows and those that follow you in any way that lets you really understand and visualize the network. Try it out yourself! Twitter Karma. Happy searching!

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NTEN

MAY 10, 2010

Let's create a Ning site! If your organization isn't measuring the results of its social media initiatives, you may be wasting time and effort. Try Causes! Need to build community? No budget for a web site redesign? Start a Facebook Page instead! Maybe it will work. Ah, 2008, you are missed. Well, playtime's over.

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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. As of today TuDiabetes has almost 10,800 members and EsTuDiabetes has almost 5,400.

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See3

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape, Ning and an internet thinker (and billionaire), wrote a post today on his blog called Inaugurating the New York Times Deathwatch. He shows vividly how the New York Times business has eroded, how their ad revenues are way down, circulation is down, etc. Sulzberger, Jr.

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Care2

JANUARY 3, 2011

The community could be a blog community, a YouTube channel community, a Facebook or Ning group, or a reddit group. The Atheist, Christian, and Islam subgroups of Reddit , the social news site, decided to raise funds and challenge each other at the same time, in a good-natured way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Ron Raab, President of Insulin For Life told us: “Every time someone watches this video, it will make a real contribution to someone actually staying alive. At the time of this writing, we were about to hit 85,000 views, 800 likes and 370 comments and have a couple more days ahead of us to reach the 100,000 views goal.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

A robust knowledge sharing network might involve people sharing resources, best practices, worst practices, just-in-time information, quick tips, and deep thinking, all focused on a specific topic. It may still require somebody’s time to encourage participation and perhaps do a little re-formatting and re-organizing. Some are huge.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

How much time do I have to spend on social media? Check out Beth Kanter's post, How Much Time Does It Take to Do Social Media? to help you estimate how much time you might need, and compare it with the time you have to give. Also, what is the time line for the project? Facebook , Ning ) Social bookmarking (i.e.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

The third post is an encouragement to know your community , and the fourth discusses the importance of timing in launching a community and running its programs. When you've thought through the benefits, obstacles, audiences, and timing for an online collaboration community project, you will need to determine how to deploy it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Don’t waste your time or loose your account’s credibility in the process. Manny Hernandez is a social entrepreneur, community strategist, president of the diabetes hands foundation , founder of tudiabetes and estudiabetes , author of ning for dummies. No matter how tempted you may feel to “trick” Wikipedia, don’t do it.

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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. This still time to donate $10 (or more) to this important cause. Thank you everyone!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Don’t use Ning, use Elgg. I love discovering new music, seeing what people I know are listening to, and learning more about what I listen to over time. It’s not cheap, but it works well, and saves me so much time invoicing, that it pays for itself several times over every month. Stay tuned. SaaS Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

It's time for the Second Annual Take Back the Tech Campaign. My colleague in Cambodia, Jinja, has set up a group on a special ning site. Here's the call to action: ka-BLOG! Calling all bloggers to contaminate the blogosphere with activism on VAW for 16 days. ka-BLOG is a 16-day blog fest for the Take Back the Tech Campaign.

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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. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I wish I could have attended the other workshops that were taking place at the same time as mine - from David La Piana on Strategic Planning and Dione Alexander from the Nonprofit Finance Fund. Thom was kind enough to do an interview with me about their ning use that I will publish in the next few days).

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 27, 2008

. * To give people hope in uncertain times. * But honestly, when you get down to it, most of the things I choose to spend my time on, I choose because I think they're fun. You can add your wdydwyd photo to the wdydwyd Flickr group , and join the wdydwyd Facebook group , or wdydwyd Ning group. To be of service.

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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. If you don’t have the capacity to actively engage elsewhere, then don’t – its takes time and some effort to get results. You don’t have much to lose except a little bit of your time. What are the drawbacks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2007

I need to carve out some time to play with it. 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. Steve Garfield shared what he has done with the new blip.tv player and I really like it.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

In part, it's because the technology is now so fast, easy and cheap to use that simply investing our time to figure it out seems like a pleasure. Then there's the flip side: how do we keep these exciting initiatives moving ahead despite such limited staff time to devote to them? how I miss thee.) That means you.) .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

This time, online organizing efforts using social media are happening before the storm hits. Gustav08 on Ning. Photo by Christine As you know by now, Hurricane Gustav looks even more destructive than Katrina (see this round up from Lisa Stone, BlogHer , of the news reports and links). shelter, looking for someone or are an evacuee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

While I initially liked that they told me right at the time that I made the comment, I wondered if editing someone's comments and then posting could lead to any legal trouble. If your nonprofit organization has a blog, do you moderate the comments? by Ken Fischer. Related articles by Zemanta. TypePad AntiSpam: A Better Way to Handle Spam.

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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.??? Nick from Social Times adds: My biggest problem with the standard so far has been that it???s 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. I just didn't have time to futz with it and besides don't have a mobile phone with a video camera. It's worth reading the discussions for the ideas being suggested as well as for the excellent resources being shared.

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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? A few months ago, I came up with a somewhat arbitrary framework to answer the age-old question, " How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? " I laid it out in terms of type of project and minimum amount of time to accomplish. That takes time and skills.

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