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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

He set up a Ning site Hurricane Information Center. This site worked much like Katrina Aftermath , with aggregations of content generated by the public, news orgs and govt agencies. Well, off to do my micro-volunteer task for the day and add it here.

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NTEN

MAY 10, 2010

Let's create a Ning site! No budget for a web site redesign? Remember those halcyon days of yore when the phrase "social networking" was suffused with golden light? New fundraising campaing? Try Causes! Need to build community? Start a Facebook Page instead! Maybe it will work. Ah, 2008, you are missed.

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JULY 13, 2009

The organizer is TuDiabetes.com.com, the niche social networking site for people affected by diabetes. 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. That’s not just an expression.

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JANUARY 3, 2011

The community could be a blog community, a YouTube channel community, a Facebook or Ning group, or a reddit group. The Atheist, Christian, and Islam subgroups of Reddit , the social news site, decided to raise funds and challenge each other at the same time, in a good-natured way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2008

She also just set up a social networking site on Ning where museum professionals are discussing the future of museums in a Web 2.0 The site is called Museum 3.0. We're trying to make that change in the organization now - we're using a private ning site to follow up with a strategic plan.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Discussion boards can be added to your website, leveraged in a Ning site, or you can use a google group or similar solution. A Drupal or Wordpress site could include these features by adding modules/plug-ins/widgets. Consider Ning, Basecamp, and Zoho. commenting on any item. rating items.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

This set the rules of their site and it’s worked for them so far… though the jury is still out on this one. But if you come to think of it, it’s what keeps the site as encyclopedic as it can hope to be. So, your blog? Not typically a reliable, independent secondary source. A passing mention in an article in your local newspaper?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Paul also shared a ning site he has set up called "Cool 'n Conscientious" Cool 'n Conscientious focuses on how emerging information technology tools and services can be leveraged to change the world - both the practical and relevant application of technology to address social challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2008

So for today, our focus is on social networking sites.    The top social networking sites include some familiar names - Myspace and Facebook.   What is interesting is that nearly half of the biggest social networking sites are also among the fastest growing - and they are all most popular among age groups over 25. .  

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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. Where will people be redirected to if they come to a site that no longer exists? Are you a natural writer? A blog may be a place to start. Do you love connecting people?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

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. But I calmly responded with an email that lifted up the excitement of our advocates on sites like Facebook. We know what our supporters like, need and want.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

My colleague in Cambodia, Jinja, has set up a group on a special ning site. So we are saying technology should be used for equality, not to perpetuate violence. Read more about the issue here. How to Participate. The full call to action, packed with ideas and tips on how to participate can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2007

The site content will be moderated and if inappropriate (off topic) content is posted - it will be removed - but that long term the site will be community moderated. Steve mentioned another live streaming site similar ustream (blog tv?). Flickr is one excellent example of community moderation. player and I really like it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

There's a lot of resources, ideas, and discussion over at Stop Cyberbullying Site. 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

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

There are plenty of options ( Google Sites , Ning , and GroupSite , to name a few) that allow you to host discussions and share documents with groups of people relatively easily. The world of collaboration platforms is a bit of a jungle. Here are three broad approaches: Grab a free or cheap tool and get started fast.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

They tend to have tens of thousands of members versus the hundreds of millions for mainstream sites. You can always start with a Google search but don’t forget to use group directories on WiserEarth , Ning , and Facebook. Kirtsy (demographic-based – think Digg for women, 200,000+ members). Why use them to spread your message? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Take for example this widget created by Cerada, Hurricane Gustav widget for iPhone, mobile device or Web site/blog , which allows you to list yourself and indicate whether you are offering. Gustav08 on Ning. discussion on Gustav Information site. shelter, looking for someone or are an evacuee. The widget's resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

In true form, it has a web site ( OpenSocial.org ) built on Google???s s new Google Sites platform. According to the site: ???The a public benefit???) and not for Google???s s benefit only. s also a Blogger blog for OpenSocial. OpenSocial is creating a common API that works on multiple websites. s not easy!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2007

If you have not already checked out the ning site that Andy put together, it's here. Scott McLeod created some badges and over at the site there's more discussion going on about what message should be on the badge. I will draw on it for my post tommorrow. The segment was on cyberbullying and the need for a code of conduct.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2007

ve created an online social network called Stop Cyberbullying using a free tool called Ning. ll also use the site to aggregate a stream of what people are doing in support of Stop Cyberbullying Day, assuming people accept my challenge to take action on Friday.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

There are an amazing number of new sites that have launched over the weekend (I imagine people sitting in their home offices with lots of caffeine and pizza.) Of course, OpenSocial has blown the doors off of all of this, and what’s come out of it is quite interesting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g. Where do branded social networks like Ning sites fall? On social networks on the organization’s web site, 25.2% Facebook), as well as their own hosted social networking communities.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Don’t use Ning, use Elgg. It’s a really great tool for creating very rapid mockups of sites that you are working on. I use it to create sitemaps, mostly, but it’s also great for brainstorming. Elgg is the open source social network management system. Install it on your own server, control your own data. Stay tuned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

James Joyner, Outside the Beltway, Enforcing Civility in Blog Comments Ross Douthat, Atlantic, Comment Moderation Policy Announcement Guy Kawasaki, Why Blog: An Interview with Darren Rowse (covers two questions on comment moderation) Wired Journalists Ning Site, What's Your Policy on Moderating and Editing Comments? by Ken Fischer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Share Your Story: You share the impact of your organization's programs through blogging, podcasting, sharing photos on Flickr, or YouTube or other video sharing site. If you want to build an online community for knowledge or skill sharing, using social network tools like Ning or LinkedIN will help you get there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Today is Blog Action Day where over 11,000 bloggers/sites around the world will publish, donate, or promote the issue of poverty.  Observe is his photos in flickr , read his blog , follow him on Twitter , join his Ning community , and learn why you should care about poverty. There is no simple, clear answers. 

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Update: The presentation slides are available on FivePaths.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

A number of vendor applications and technologies also were presented, including act.ly , Legistalker , DataMasher , Drupal , WordPress , Democracy in Action , Joomla , Ning , GovLuv , You2Gov , GovLoop , Qik , TwitVid , Bit.ly , and GovPulse. Forum One was very interested in the opinions expressed by others at the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

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??? where your mini-application can extend to: MySpace, Bebo, SixApart, Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, Viadeo and Oracle. Platform???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Meanwhile Randal Moss gives us some food for thought about turnover in Social Network sites. For some context, check out this timeline of social networking sites from Dannah Boyd. Social Networking There's still time to contribute a post to the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants compilation of Nonprofit Use of Social Networking Tools.

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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. What does web site stickiness mean in the context of Web2.0? Seb Chan, of the Fresh + New Blog, raises an interesting question about web site stickness in a web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You can also share the impact of your organization's programs through podcasts, sharing photos on Flickr, or videos on YouTube or other video sharing sites. Share Your Story: You share the impact of your organization's programs through blogging, podcasting, sharing photos on Flickr, or YouTube or other video sharing site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

You can even add a good deed widget for your site. communities can compete with each other by fundraising on the GlobalGiving site. SocialGiving , a Ning app that allows for peer-to-peer fundraising initiatives for Ning Network Creators was launched this week by PincGiving. Follow his blog for expert Ning advice.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

The hours don’t reflect exactly how much time one should spend on the sites themselves, rather the time spent and the time necessary researching and preparing the content for each social network, setting up and maintaining the profile and pages, and tracking ROI. Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

The hours don’t reflect exactly how much time one should spend on the sites themselves, rather the time spent and the time necessary researching and preparing the content for each social network, setting up and maintaining the profile and pages, and tracking ROI. Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly.

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