Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 12, 2010

Lately, I have had the opportunity to chat with various colleagues like Bonnie Koenig, Debra Askanase and others about the topic of cross-platform community building. Here’s what I mean: Cross-Platform Community Building :: Tending to Multiple Flowerbeds. What would you add about cross-platform community building?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

MySpace hit an all-time low with only 7% of nonprofits utilizing this platform. For the first time this year, quite a few newbies were added to the list of Social Network platforms: FourSquare, Jumo, Vimeo, Yelp, Picassa, Ning, Delicious, CrowdRise, FirstGiving, Razoo and Causes. LinkedIn is used by 1 in 3 nonprofits.

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Social Network Raise Money Network 78

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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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Since the technology landscape changes so fast, here's our current short-list of go-to platforms that we use to support our clients for these activities. Drupal Commons (an open-source variant of Drupal from our friends at Acquia ) is a versatile and complete full-service community platform. Jive Engage Platform. Drupal Commons.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Since the technology landscape changes so fast, here's our current short-list of go-to platforms that we use to support our clients for these activities. Drupal Commons (an open-source variant of Drupal from our friends at Acquia ) is a versatile and complete full-service community platform. Jive Engage Platform. Drupal Commons.

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Social Network Drupal Ning Network 47

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2010

It’s because this is another example of how our tools are defining community. ( Last month’s post focused on that topic using Causes, Ideablob and Ning as references for the conversation.) This is where things start to spark for me.

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Community Ipod Ning Public 174

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2008

There are new types of software being developed all the time (like, for instance, the new crop of “ Social Network Management Systems &# both open source and SaaS, like Ning.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

He set up a Ning site Hurricane Information Center. I've just come across another site/platform that is designed for aggregating information for emergencies and they have also established a Hurricane Ida Information Site.

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Hurricane Wiki El Salvador Alabama 94

See3

JULY 13, 2009

TuDiabetes.com is built on the white-label social networking platform Ning , and Manny wrote the book on it. He really wrote the book on Ning. “When Kelly [Rawlings] mentioned having a collective test-in, I thought it would be a great way for thousands of us to connect and raise awareness about diabetes.”.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

Ning is a platform that allows individuals or organizations to create branded social networks. Much like searching on Facebook Causes to find groups who are interested in your work, searching on Social Actions can help you find indivudals and passionate communities working on similar issues around the world. Happy searching!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

His online communities are the most tech-savvy of the independent diabetes communities : Hernandez built it on social networking platform Ning, the company at which he worked before starting these online communities and his nonprofit. As of today TuDiabetes has almost 10,800 members and EsTuDiabetes has almost 5,400.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Or, if you are clearly visible and helping to pull together threads of knowledge building across many platforms, your organization’s name is getting valuable exposure. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Social Innovation Conversations is also part of the Conversations Network , an online platform for podcast distribution. It is described as: The Social Innovation Podcasting Channel is an open and collaborative online platform for cross-sector and multidisciplinary learning for social change.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

Many community platforms, whether simple or complex, offer a large number of options for user interaction: user-generated content contributions, discussions, groups, wikis, blogs, real-time communication, Twitter-like updates, photo galleries, collaborative file management, etc. Choose an appropriate platform and deployment strategy.

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Collaboration Tools Ning Sharepoint 44

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

It has become arguably the most popular open source CMS, and is a very able platform for creating all sorts of great web applications. This is an awesome cross-platform mind mapping tool. Don’t use Ning, use Elgg. But now, here I am, and I’m impressed. I like it more and more. Stay tuned.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A social network like Facebook, LinkedIn, or Ning might be a tool to leverage your talents. Facebook , Ning ) Social bookmarking (i.e. Putting limited resources towards building community around one tool will be more effective than barely engaging on multiple platforms. Are you a natural writer? A blog may be a place to start.

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Social Media Project Question Ning 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2007

is the platform for this and I wondered whether that was part of their services. In the conversation around whether or not to use something like Ning or build your own platform - one of the drawbacks is that you don't get to keep your google ad revenue. after I've cleaned up my computer disaster and recovered from lack of sleep.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

The foundation will provide transparency and operational guidelines around technology, documentation, intellectual property, and other issues related to the evolution of the OpenSocial platform, while also ensuring all stakeholders share influence over its future direction. s new Google Sites platform. a public benefit???)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

We’ve listened to our supporters online and attempted authentic engagement with various social media platforms. Naturally, my colleagues and I have taken the lead in establishing our organizational presence on sites like Facebook, Twitter, Ning and posting to our blog. Our nonprofit is not unique.

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Ning Community Social Media Culture 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Ning is a platform that allows you to create your own social networking site. We've already spotted a number of ning generated nonprofit related social network sites ( Cool n Conscientious , Stop Cyberbullying , Library 2.0 Tools and How They're Used. Do you find Web2.0 distracting, productivity drain ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

Again, your blogging platform will have this feature. And, it will usually take a way to build up to a point where it more efficient to moderate than leave open and delete. I'm not referring to comment spam , either. That's a different issue and you definitely need to use a spam filter. by Ken Fischer. Related articles by Zemanta.

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Comment Difference Spam Ning 50

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Hosting included) WordPress.org: [link] (Free software. Odeo: Free [link] Copyright Free Music Podsafe Music Network.

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Skype Resource Internet Tools 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

Some definitions they used in the study: " House Social Network " refers to a socialnetworking community built on a nonprofit's own web site. " Commercial Social Network " An online community platform owned and operated by a corporation such as Facebook. Where do branded social networks like Ning sites fall?

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Social Network Studies Network Social 61

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 7, 2010

—– I’ve talked about issues and ideas over the last year about the use of certain tools or platforms in the social technology for social impact sector, from Causes to Ideablob to Ning. Tags: community otherblogs causes community building ideablob ning ssir tools. Read the original post and conversation here.

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Ning Tools Community Offline 152

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Platform??? where your mini-application can extend to: MySpace, Bebo, SixApart, Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, Viadeo and Oracle. Four months ago, Facebook allowed third party companies to build mini-applications in their site, this is similar in concept, but now includes many other players. ???Platform???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

SocialGiving , a Ning app that allows for peer-to-peer fundraising initiatives for Ning Network Creators was launched this week by PincGiving. Ning has been a popular platform for nonprofits to create communities of interest around their causes. Follow his blog for expert Ning advice. Good Reads: Online.

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Nptech Social Media Ning Media 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

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. One hopes that once the CyberYenta solves her blogging platform issue , she'll jump on a job posting widgets for that nonprofit job list.). What do you think?

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Social Network Nptech Tag Summary 50

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

What Twitter is… twitter is a platform, it’s about connections, it’s the direciton we’re heading in; it’s a micro-community that is different for every individual. who are you providing a platform for? – If you use something like Ning does that platform share a part of the liability?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2013

Community Management Services and Platforms. Ning – Popular with nonprofits, reasonably priced, may require some customization. There are literally thousands of online communities, focused on a span of topics such as parenting, medical issues, education, nonprofit management, technology applications, and platforms. Conclusion.

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Professional Community Learning Online 108

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 20, 2011

The Survivors Connect online platform includes various opportunities for those wishing to report abuse, take action, or otherwise support the network of activists, and relies on a variety of collaborative technologies, from data mapping to online seminars, SMS-powered communications to an online community network.

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Collaboration Technology Impact North America 179

Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2009

On the surface, it appears to be a platform that allows for real-time rich media collaboration with a Google spin. Kind of like if Ning , Google Talk , Gmail , Twitter and Facebook got smooshed together into a single open source environment. I’m still trying to figure it out.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The majority of the executive departments and agencies opted to meet this requirement through the implementation of an open government public web site built on the IdeaScale platform. Open Diplomacy Platform. Public Social Media Platform for International Disaster Response. Vote for this Idea]. Department of State.

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Ideas Share Disaster Government 47

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

The opportunity is not to create a single brand concept in each community but to be a unique and useful brand for different communities on multiple platforms in different (but overlapping) ways. I love COSI and the SMM 's new approach to showing off their social media presence across the Web on a single page. So what's it worth?

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Virtual Museum North Carolina Evaluation 20

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Think a whitebox version of Ning, or Facebook. Elgg, a LAMP(hp) project, started it’s life as a learning platform with social network features, but has transmorgrified into a social network platform with learning features. What do these tools allow you to do? They allow you to create stand-alone social networks.

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