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How to Backup Your Ning Network Content

Wild Apricot

Recent changes in Ning’s business model (see News & Views About Change for updates) have Network Creators wondering whether to pay to keep hosting their online communities on the Ning platform, or to start looking at alternatives.

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Betting the Farm

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Countless nonprofits flocked to Ning to create social networks. But now that Ning isn’t free anymore , I’m going to carp some. Or is it free because it is a start up in search for a business model (Ning)? There is an effort afloat to get Ning to make nonprofit and educational accounts free.

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Donor Data Management Dictionary

3rd Sector Labs

Cleaning / cleansing – [KLEE-ning] / [KLEN-zing], noun. Data science incorporates techniques and theories from a variety of disciplines including mathematics, statistics, computer science, data engineering, and system modeling. The study of extracting knowledge from data.

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What OpenSocial Means

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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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 took Forrester's technographics research model and adapted it for Australia, surveying over 2,000 people from Australia. The site is called Museum 3.0. Tell me about your research?

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My Top 16 tools of 2008

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

CiviCRM continues to mature, and is providing an interesting and important new model for nonprofit software development. Don’t use Ning, use Elgg. Songbird was a buggy mess just a year ago, but with the recent release of 1.0, it’s absolutely an application to get to know. Oh what a difference a year or so makes.

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The Horizon Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

tools being deployed including Wikispaces, Delicious, Slideshare, Ning, Twitter, Meebo, YouTube and many others) We will students researching and experiencing social web enabled learning unfold on the wiki. I also think the Student Code of Ethics are good model too - sort of like online community standards or codes of conduct.

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