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Free Alternatives to Ning

Forum One

Ning , the leading free social media platform provider has recently lost not only its CEO, but also about 40 percent of its workforce. Freshly-appointed CEO Jason Rosenthal posted last week , Ning will now "double down on our premium services business." Profiles: Dual profiles for both professional and social uses.

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Eight Great Tools for Private Social Networks and Online Communities - 2011 Edition

Forum One

It offers a very nice blend of social networking and web content management functionality, and is very customizable. The BuddyPress plug-in takes it further and provides many of the common social networking features. Open Atrium. Jive Engage Platform. It is reliable, scalable, and relatively configurable.

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8 Great Tools for Private Social Networks and Online Communities: The 2011 Edition

Forum One

It offers a very nice blend of social networking and web content management functionality, and is very customizable. The BuddyPress plug-in takes it further and provides many of the common social networking features. Open Atrium. Jive Engage Platform. It is reliable, scalable, and relatively configurable.

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How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

By making a human connection with people online, you can influence their perception of your brand and help them find meaningful, relevant ways to support your mission. I'd also include your individual social networking profile which can be a great way to spread buzz (or spread yourself too thin.) (10-15 5 hours per week).

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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 foundation will provide transparency and operational guidelines around technology, documentation, intellectual property, and other issues related to the evolution of the OpenSocial platform, while also ensuring all stakeholders share influence over its future direction. a public benefit???) and not for Google???s s benefit only.

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Explaining Open Social to Your Executive Director

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Google and several other social networks in the alliance launched OpenSocial on Nov 1st. Google and several other social networks in the alliance launched OpenSocial on Nov 1st. Your existing applications become social. Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook are not part of the announcement (yet). It will run on MySpace.

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How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Marketing Genius: What's Your Brilliant Thought?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Media and social networks allow for the quantum effects, paired elements at a distance. And another multiplier comes from Network Theory (not Einstein directly but building on physics and mathematics) which shows that a network strength is in its Weak ties / Loose connections.