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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. Back in 2008, founder Marc.( read more ).

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Betting the Farm

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Countless nonprofits flocked to Ning to create social networks. Since I’m not a social media guru, I’ve generally kept my opinions about this to myself. But now that Ning isn’t free anymore , I’m going to carp some. And even if they do, there is no guarantee that Ning will even survive.

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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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Thoughts on Social Networking

Connection Cafe

Nonprofit association NTEN , consultants Common Knowledge and social networking software providers ThePort conducted a joint study of nonprofit organization and their use of and attitudes towards social networking tools. The survey asked about two types of social networking presences a nonprofit organization could have.

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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 During the meeting, she shared some insights from a recently published research study she conducted on the social activities and technographics of people in Australia.

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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. Elgg is the open source social network management system. Don’t use Ning, use Elgg. Songbird was a buggy mess just a year ago, but with the recent release of 1.0,

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NpTech Tag Summary: Putting the U in YouTube, Some Cool Events, and Electronic Sheep Dreams

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning.

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