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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. Interview.

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Nonprofits Using Ning: An Interview with Community Media Workshop and Best Practices

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week for WeAreMedia project, I put a call on Twitter for case studies, best practices, and links about nonprofits using social networking sites, including Ning. Nonprofits, support groups, and nonprofit professionals have found their homes on Ning. s Ning site began as a way to solve a very practical solution???keeping

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Free Webinar: Using Ning to Connect with Your Community

Tech Soup

Ning is a powerful tool that allows you to not only create a dynamic, easy to update website, but its functionality allows your community to create accounts, share information, connect with you and other people in your community and work collaboratively. Learn what it takes to get a Ning site set-up and the resources needed to keep it going.

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Let's Connect: Twitter, Facebook, Ning & Podcasts

Have Fun - Do Good

Changeblogger Ning Network I've also set up a Ning network for Changebloggers, people who use their blogs, podcasts and vlogs to make positive change. They have recently added a social networking component, so feel free to friend me there as well. We've got 172 members at the moment.

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An Interview With Dr. Lynda Kelly, Australian Museum

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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 recruited people based on the Forrester online social activity categories and interviewed them about their online participation. The site is called Museum 3.0. I've done many studies on Web 2.0

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StopCyberbullying, Video Messaging Reminder, and My BBC Interview!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you have not already checked out the ning site that Andy put together, it's here. Over on the Stop Cyberbullying Social Network Site, David Weinberg suggested a no bullies pledge , a sort of creative commons licensing for acceptable conduct. Here's an interview with Kathy Sierra with the local TV station.

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Guest Post by Manny Hernandez: Transitioning From Social Media Cloud to Nonprofit Organization

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Organizational Network Analysis). 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. Source: Rob Cross, What is ONA?