Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2008

"Today, the primary role of social networks for governments is to facilitate the exchange of information and to establish novel collaboration patterns, often across organizational boundaries," Gartner's report says.     So far that list includes the big ones like Facebook, Myspace, Ning, and LinkedIn. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2013

Note from Beth: This one of my favorite photos of a workshop I designed and facilitated at SXSW called “ Peer Learning Session for Nonprofit Social Media Managers.” Is your nonprofit facilitating online professional learning? Ning – Popular with nonprofits, reasonably priced, may require some customization.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Think a whitebox version of Ning, or Facebook. Elgg, a LAMP(hp) project, started it’s life as a learning platform with social network features, but has transmorgrified into a social network platform with learning features. What do these tools allow you to do? They allow you to create stand-alone social networks.

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