Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

It’s important to note that the time requirements for each tool are fluid and are always changing from week to week, but the estimates do provide a framework that will help you draft a realistic social media manager job description and decide what social media tools your nonprofit can utilize based on your capacity.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 1, 2015

Cleaning / cleansing – [KLEE-ning] / [KLEN-zing], noun. Maintaining the quality or “cleanliness” of nonprofit donor data is a challenge for any nonprofit due to the many factors contributing to the degradation of the data, from poor quality control on data input to the frequency with which all consumer data changes.

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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. In 2009, the Care2 community created more than 22,000 petitions resulting in more than 23 million signatures that drove tangible changes globally. Check out the results: 8.7

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 19, 2010

As you might know, almost a year ago, I made a big change in my use of social media – I segregated my social graph – work related stuff moved to LinkedIn and Twitter, and personal friends only on Facebook. Now, I have taken the next step, and made somewhat of a momentous decision. And, I’ll still be blogging.

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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. He is using a tool called " Twibbon " that makes it easy for people to change their avatar to incorporate a visual for a particular cause. What do you think?

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2008

The web software landscape has changed dramatically over the years. 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.). I hear people suggesting building their own social networking website.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Since the technology landscape changes so fast, here's our current short-list of go-to platforms that we use to support our clients for these activities. Ning is a hosted workspace product which boasts the largest numbers of users and networks of all of the private social networks. Drupal Commons.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Since the technology landscape changes so fast, here's our current short-list of go-to platforms that we use to support our clients for these activities. Ning is a hosted workspace product which boasts the largest numbers of users and networks of all of the private social networks. Drupal Commons.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2010

It’s because this is another example of how our tools are defining community. ( Last month’s post focused on that topic using Causes, Ideablob and Ning as references for the conversation.) Apple, though, seems to have a cripplingly closed system; here’s Jake: The other issue gets to Apple’s broader competitive approach.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

There have been quite a few changes to Facebook over the last few months (hey, even days!), Have your key public-facing staff members changed? Ning is a platform that allows individuals or organizations to create branded social networks. Give it a try! Groups & Pages. Google Alerts. Happy searching!

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 12, 2010

The basic idea: The Gardener creates an ecosystem open to change, available to new groups, and full of fresh opportunities to emerge naturally. —— Last year I used the metaphor of “ gardening vs landscaping &# to outline some of the key attributes I believe make for successful community building, on or offline.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

It is described as: The Social Innovation Podcasting Channel is an open and collaborative online platform for cross-sector and multidisciplinary learning for social change. But as Paul pointed out in an email he thinks that ning has come close to integrated conversational media into a blog like platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2008

She also just set up a social networking site on Ning where museum professionals are discussing the future of museums in a Web 2.0 We're trying to make that change in the organization now - we're using a private ning site to follow up with a strategic plan. The site is called Museum 3.0. Have a supportive director is important.

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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. How are you changing the culture of your organization to embrace social media? Tags: change management. We know what our supporters like, need and want.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

You'll create better-quality programs, gain greater traction with community members, obtain more focused feedback, and enable yourself to be more responsive to initial usage trends and to rapidly change course if needed. Communities take time to grow and needs change over time. Don't expect to get everything right upon first launch.

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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. 10 or more by January 31st and change a child's life. Thank you everyone!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

They haven’t really started yet, but hopefully it will be an interesting place to watch OpenSocial Directory – a directory of the apps that already exist to use OpenSocial (talk about caffeine and pizza!) Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

They are on this list because I think they are great, because they have undergone a lot of change or development this year, or because they are game-changing. Don’t use Ning, use Elgg. They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. WordPress. Stay tuned.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I created a Changeblogger Facebook group (thanks to a suggestion by Tim Zimmermann of Change/Wire ), and recently established the Changeblogger Network on Ning. I've become increasingly interested in the role of spirituality/inner work informing outer social change work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2007

t enough to change everything. ve created an online social network called Stop Cyberbullying using a free tool called Ning. " In that post, she points to an excellent piece she wrote back in October called " What to do when you're cyberstalked, taunted, or abused online? Of course, one day isn???t

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 27, 2008

Why do you do what you do, particularly as it relates to trying to create positive change in the world? You can add your wdydwyd photo to the wdydwyd Flickr group , and join the wdydwyd Facebook group , or wdydwyd Ning group. Perhaps, like many of us, he took the Why for granted?" It's a tough question when you really think about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Phillip Smith has a thoughtful post about the continuum of change ranging from entitlement to enterprise. Ning is a platform that allows you to create your own social networking site. We've already spotted a number of ning generated nonprofit related social network sites ( Cool n Conscientious , Stop Cyberbullying , Library 2.0

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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. Search and select : Niche communities can be hard to find by their very nature. Also, make sure to ask respected members of your local nonprofit community. WiserEarth serves the people who are transforming the world.

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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. Paul Lamb sent me a pointer to a cool video messaging tool called Eyejot that he had just posted about on his Cool 'n Conscientious, a social networking site dedicated to leveraging emerging information tools for social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Simple and small changes in our global, political, and personal priorities can make a huge difference. ???We Shawn's goal was to change the conversation about ending poverty. Observe is his photos in flickr , read his blog , follow him on Twitter , join his Ning community , and learn why you should care about poverty.

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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. . After all, I was that kid who stayed up late playing video games. (Ah, how I miss thee.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2008

  It changes things quite dramatically.  The way the entire market functions has changed drastically, we reached the digital tipping point. If you're going to listen, you need to respond, and then make change.   Leveraging Communities Has set up a Ning.  Communications. Collaborations.

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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? There's a lot more learning -- especially around connecting social networking results to real change that needs to be happened. The survey provides us with a baseline of social network use by nonprofits.

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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. But, there is simply no escaping the reality that the economics of the business have changed so substantially that it is now unsustainable. 11 Feb 2008 Michael P.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. A loosely coupled group of nonprofit techies and social change activists decided to use the tag "NpTech" to identify web resources that would create an ongoing stream of information to promote and educate those working in nonprofit technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

15th including a session on using Machinima to create political and social change videos. Games for Social Change gaming and libraries was recently published and the author is the Shifted Librarian and My Avatar Wears Tight Jeans and 4 Other Things I learned from Internet Librarian 2006 is worth the read from Michael Stephens. (An

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

SocialGiving , a Ning app that allows for peer-to-peer fundraising initiatives for Ning Network Creators was launched this week by PincGiving. Ning has been a popular platform for nonprofits to create communities of interest around their causes. Follow his blog for expert Ning advice. Good Reads: Online. BackUpMyTweets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Application developers are going to go to where the heat is, and that heat is red hot at Facebook But longer term, this may change. where your mini-application can extend to: MySpace, Bebo, SixApart, Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, Viadeo and Oracle. Platform??? Container???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The simple fact is that “ Technology Changes, Humans Don’t." Community Building and Social Networking: If you want to build an online community for knowledge or skill sharing, using social network tools like Ning will help you get there. You have early adopters, a big scary chasm, and then more mainstreamed adoption of the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. internetarizans tracks the Internet, Human Rights and Social Change. What do you think? Meanwhile, a few scholarly articles on the topic.

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