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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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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. Be Helpful.

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My Top 16 tools of 2008

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. Having been bogged down with my own open source CMS tool before 2005, then having taken a break from development, I missed out on the prime years of Drupal’s development. Don’t use Ning, use Elgg.

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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 offers a very nice blend of social networking and web content management functionality, and is very customizable. Drupal Commons. WordPress 3.0 (and and BuddyPress).

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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 offers a very nice blend of social networking and web content management functionality, and is very customizable. Drupal Commons. WordPress 3.0 (and and BuddyPress).

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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? Be Helpful.

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Explaining Open Social to Your Executive Director

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

t even begun to take advantage of the Web 2.0 If you are the Internet marketing person or responsible for your organization's web strategy, how does this impact your strategy? What is Openness? " So, how do you explain Open Social to your executive director? The web, it???s Platform??? Container???