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New on SSIR: Community Building in a Big Backyard

Amy Sample Ward

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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Sping Cleaning: Taking Inventory of your Social Media Tools

Amy Sample Ward

Ning is a platform that allows individuals or organizations to create branded social networks. Tags: strategy analysis evaluation social media. You can use the advanced search to find specific actions (like petitions) or key words. Happy searching! Have you already started your Spring Cleaning? We’d love to hear them!

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Guest Post by Manny Hernandez: Transitioning From Social Media Cloud to Nonprofit Organization

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Organizational Network Analysis). 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. Source: Rob Cross, What is ONA?

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How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Key skill is pattern analysis. Link listening and analysis to decisions or actions. 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. Listening: Knowing what is being said online about your organization and the field you work in.

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Yahoo! Supports OpenSocial; Yahoo!, MySpace and Google to Form Non-Profit OpenSocial Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The official blog posts from Yahoo and Google Yodel Annecdotal Google Blog Lots of folks covering the announcement: Read/Write Web FaceReviews (includes analysis) Examples of apps built on opensocial (ugh, Shelfari). The ultimate goal is for any social website to be able to implement the API and host 3rd party social applications.

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Study Provides A Baseline for Nonprofit Use of Social Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Where do branded social networks like Ning sites fall? Strategy My colleague, Allison Fine, in her analysis of the study wondered why groups would choose to set up a house social network rather than use a commercial site and what are the benefits and drawbacks of doing so?

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Explaining Open Social to Your Executive Director

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Allan also offers an analysis of the nonprofit micro-philanthropy applications, but says it is too early to speculate where things will be in the next 21 days or next few months. Charlene Li has an analysis of the impact. t even begun to take advantage of the Web 2.0 world in general, let alone the bleeding edge of OpenSocial."