Forum One

APRIL 22, 2010

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." Alternatives to Ning Document. We will phase out our free service."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

These span the range from tools I use every day or every week, to tools use more occasionally, but depend on. They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. This is an awesome cross-platform mind mapping tool. Don’t use Ning, use Elgg.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Drupal Commons (an open-source variant of Drupal from our friends at Acquia ) is a versatile and complete full-service community platform. It approximates the “out of the box” functionality of Jive, and integrates a significant suite of tools. Drupal Commons. It is reliable, scalable, and relatively configurable.

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Social Network Drupal Ning Network 47

Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Drupal Commons (an open-source variant of Drupal from our friends at Acquia ) is a versatile and complete full-service community platform. It approximates the “out of the box” functionality of Jive, and integrates a significant suite of tools. Drupal Commons. It is reliable, scalable, and relatively configurable.

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Social Network Drupal Ning Network 48

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2008

(And, for the purposes of this post, I’m using “buy&# exceedingly loosely - including purchasing proprietary software, installing open source, or using SaaS.). First, the software available, whether it be open source, SaaS, or proprietary, is much better all round.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

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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Ning API Open Source Social Network 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

They haven’t really started yet, but hopefully it will be an interesting place to watch OpenSocial Directory – a directory of the apps that already exist to use OpenSocial (talk about caffeine and pizza!) Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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