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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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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Same answer as for all of your nonprofit technology questions: be strategic.

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Collaboration for Funders: Use the Right Tools

Forum One

This technology selection and implementation phase can be daunting and complex. There are plenty of options ( Google Sites , Ning , and GroupSite , to name a few) that allow you to host discussions and share documents with groups of people relatively easily. Here are a few guidelines to help you along: Do a few things well.

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Can Nonprofit Organizations Work More Like Clouds? How?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

technologies, everyone in your organization has more opportunities to speak for your organization than ever before. We also use flickr, wordpress, facebook, twitter, ning and we use a cloud based file backup called DataDepositBox, ADP for payroll - using their web interface, Vonage for phones.

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Forum One Staff Share OpenGov Ideas

Forum One

Open diplomacy would serve as the overall diplomatic strategy for the country -- placing new emphasis on: 1) increasing transparency, promoting openness, and valuing foreign citizen feedback; 2) promoting the use of new and emerging technology to bridge the cultural, political, scientific, and economic gap between the U.S. technologies.

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