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Ning: Phoenix or Fizzle?

Amy Sample Ward

Earlier this year, Ning announced that it would be dropping 40% of it’s staff and dropping the free service which came as a shock to much of the community, including author of the Ning for Dummies book Manny Hernandez and spurring many forums and blogs to create lists of Ning alternatives that were still free.

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Free Alternatives to Ning

Forum One

Ning , the leading free social media platform provider has recently lost not only its CEO, but also about 40 percent of its workforce. Freshly-appointed CEO Jason Rosenthal posted last week , Ning will now "double down on our premium services business." Additions: Photos, wikis, video, search, email notifications, and chat.

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Changeblogger Ning Group, Meetup, Meme and Wiki

Have Fun - Do Good

Since then, a number of different changeblogger tools, communites and events have been created which I encourage you to join, and to invite others to join: 1. Changeblogger Ning social network to connect with other changebloggers. Changeblogger wiki to list your changeblog, podcast or vlog (set up by SocialButterfly ).

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Eight Great Tools for Private Social Networks and Online Communities - 2011 Edition

Forum One

It approximates the “out of the box” functionality of Jive, and integrates a significant suite of tools. SocialText is a commercial, hosted wiki-based platform with some collaborative workspace-type features such as discussions and document management tacked on. Open Atrium. It is also quite expensive. SocialText.

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8 Great Tools for Private Social Networks and Online Communities: The 2011 Edition

Forum One

It approximates the “out of the box” functionality of Jive, and integrates a significant suite of tools. SocialText is a commercial, hosted wiki-based platform with some collaborative workspace-type features such as discussions and document management tacked on. Open Atrium. It is also quite expensive. SocialText.

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Collaboration for Funders: Use the Right Tools

Forum One

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. Choose an appropriate platform and deployment strategy.

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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.    So far that list includes the big ones like Facebook, Myspace, Ning, and LinkedIn.