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What You Need to Know About Nonprofit Social Network Use

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Let's create a Ning site! Tags: NPTech NTEN. Remember those halcyon days of yore when the phrase "social networking" was suffused with golden light? New fundraising campaing? Try Causes! Need to build community? No budget for a web site redesign? Start a Facebook Page instead! Maybe it will work. Ah, 2008, you are missed.

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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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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

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Discussion boards can be added to your website, leveraged in a Ning site, or you can use a google group or similar solution. Consider Ning, Basecamp, and Zoho. It may still require somebody’s time to encourage participation and perhaps do a little re-formatting and re-organizing. What are some other considerations/barriers?

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WeAreMedia Module 5: Social Networks (and widgets) for Community Building, Taking Action and/or Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NTEN's WeAreMedia project has been discussing and building six tactical modules on social media - the practical tips and resources you need before you start to focus on the tools. What are the best getting started tips for using Ning or LinkedIn for community building or sharing knowledge? Photo by Mill Zero.

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Brandraising: Using Technology to Grow Nonprofit Peaches

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Now I'm that grown up who stays up late building communities for my obscure personal interests on Ning, and aimlessly chatting with my long-lost friends from elementary school on Facebook, and even (cough, cough) playing on Polyvore. . Tags: NPTech NTEN Communications. After all, I was that kid who stayed up late playing video games.

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Use Niche Social Networks to Spread Your Message

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You can always start with a Google search but don’t forget to use group directories on WiserEarth , Ning , and Facebook. Tags: NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. Search and select : Niche communities can be hard to find by their very nature. Also, make sure to ask respected members of your local nonprofit community.

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Open Social Networks

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OpenSocializr – a Ning social network on OpenSocial (I guess that’s logical) OpenSocialBlog – an interesting blog about OpenSocial Why do I have the feeling that every domain with “opensocial&# is taken (opensocialblog.com, opensocialcats.com …) So why is this important for nonprofits?