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Please Help: Volunteers Needed To Help With Hurricane Wiki To Prep for Hurricane Ida

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you come across any useful Twitter accounts related to Ida - local news accounts, weather spotters, volunteers, local orgs, etc - please add them to the wiki here: [link]. He set up a Ning site Hurricane Information Center. If you can help out in the next 48 hours, please let Andy know by responding to this thread.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

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. org / blog /2007/03/20/ nptech - tagging - community. A Drupal or Wordpress site could include these features by adding modules/plug-ins/widgets. Hard to use.

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Get Involved in Gustav Online Volunteer Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Gustav08 on Ning. He is hoping it will work like Katrina Aftermath , with aggregations of content generated by the public, news orgs and govt agencies. shelter, looking for someone or are an evacuee. The widget's resources. tab also answers the following questions asap: CNN Coverage of Gustav. Gustav Wiki. Gustav podcasts from NOAA.

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Facebook, Open Social, Networked Relationship Building, and Leveraging Social Capital

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am wondering about the role of an evangelist or what Networked for Good report calls super activist, an individual who acts on behalf of an org, business, or other entity. Ning founder Marc Andresen notes "Open Social is an open way for everyone to do what Facebook has done." More coverage on Google's Open API.

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Thoughts on Social Networking

Connection Cafe

The second type is "house" which the survey has defined as a social network which is part of the organizations website, typically provided by a private or white label vendor like ThePort or Small World Labs or Ning. Presence on Commercial Social Networks. Over 75% of them said their community was valuable.

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How To Get Started Thinking About Online Peer Learning Communities for Nonprofit Professionals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ning – Popular with nonprofits, reasonably priced, may require some customization. Who’s running the parenting/running/makers community/community org, young donors, etc. The following ones were suggested as more specifically focused for online communities.

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Can Nonprofit Organizations Work More Like Clouds? How?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I think there's a portion of ppl in our org who are "cloud" people, but upper mgmt still resists it, hence a clash.". We also use flickr, wordpress, facebook, twitter, ning and we use a cloud based file backup called DataDepositBox, ADP for payroll - using their web interface, Vonage for phones.

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