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My Top 16 tools of 2008

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Build vs “Buy”

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The web software landscape has changed dramatically over the years. And, for the purposes of this post, I’m using “buy&# exceedingly loosely - including purchasing proprietary software, installing open source, or using SaaS.). I hear people suggesting building their own social networking website.

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Eight Great Tools for Private Social Networks and Online Communities - 2011 Edition

Forum One

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. WordPress 3.0 (and and BuddyPress).

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8 Great Tools for Private Social Networks and Online Communities: The 2011 Edition

Forum One

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. WordPress 3.0 (and and BuddyPress).

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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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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?

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. For me, the web and 2.0