Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

Last week, Ning, announced a complete end to free services for its users. We've been seeing the end of the era of free social media applications over the past few months. Last November, Causes, a popular and free social networking fundraising application, ditched its Myspace widgets and Ideablob closed its doors.

Ning 101

Ning Free Technology Adopt 101

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

These span the range from tools I use every day or every week, to tools use more occasionally, but depend on. Open Source Tools. WP as a blogging tool rocks my world, and although I certainly could move blogging to Drupal, since I seem to be becoming somewhat of a Drupalista, it’s just not worth it. SaaS Tools.

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Tools Open Source Drupal Adobe 100

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.

Ning 100

Ning API Open Source Social Network 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

OpenSocializr – a Ning social network on OpenSocial (I guess that’s logical) OpenSocialBlog – an interesting blog about OpenSocial Why do I have the feeling that every domain with “opensocial&# is taken (opensocialblog.com, opensocialcats.com …) So why is this important for nonprofits?

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Social Network Open Network Social 100