Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) I linked to a great thought piece a while back on opening up the social graph (that is, your network of friends.) Jon Stahl pointed me to a great article , also about opening up the social graph.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Last week for WeAreMedia project, I put a call on Twitter for case studies, best practices, and links about nonprofits using social networking sites, including Ning. Nonprofits, support groups, and nonprofit professionals have found their homes on Ning. s Ning site began as a way to solve a very practical solution???keeping

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

It recently launched a ning site - a branded social network for its community of nonprofits. Tell me a little about your organization's social media strategy for its ning (branded social network) site? s Ning online strategy began as a way to solve a very practical solution???keeping

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2009

I finally got a chance to meet Manny Hernandez, author written the " Ning for Dummies Book." He is founder of The Diabetes Hands Foundation, a non profit that operates two niche social networks for people touched by diabetes: TuDiabetes (in English, with close to 8,200 members) and EsTuDiabetes. Photo in Flickr.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Ning is a powerful tool that allows you to not only create a dynamic, easy to update website, but its functionality allows your community to create accounts, share information, connect with you and other people in your community and work collaboratively. Learn what it takes to get a Ning site set-up and the resources needed to keep it going.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Andy Carvin launched the Gustav Information Center on Ning, and through social networks, word is spreading fast - the hash tag #gustav is being used. As we wait for Gustav to hit, Tom Watson gives us reflection about social media and Katrina -- How will the use of social media and with Gustav may it different this time.

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NTEN

MAY 10, 2010

Remember those halcyon days of yore when the phrase "social networking" was suffused with golden light? Let's create a Ning site! If your organization isn't measuring the results of its social media initiatives, you may be wasting time and effort. New fundraising campaing? Try Causes! Need to build community?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

What is a niche social network? . A niche social network is an online community drawn together by a shared location, demographic, or interest -- or combination of the three. Examples of niche social networks include: . They may be members or even leaders of relevant niche networks themselves.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Facebook is the largest social network in the world and is becoming increasingly integrated into the Social Web with every passing second. Flickr is the largest photo-sharing social networking community on the Web and should be your starting point for your online photo-sharing campaigns.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 7, 2009

Changeblogger Ning Network I've also set up a Ning network for Changebloggers, people who use their blogs, podcasts and vlogs to make positive change. years of BlogHer's Nonprofits and Social Change section. years of BlogHer's Nonprofits and Social Change section. We've got 172 members at the moment.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

It offers a very nice blend of social networking and web content management functionality, and is very customizable. The BuddyPress plug-in takes it further and provides many of the common social networking features. Open Atrium. Jive Engage Platform. It is reliable, scalable, and relatively configurable.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

It offers a very nice blend of social networking and web content management functionality, and is very customizable. The BuddyPress plug-in takes it further and provides many of the common social networking features. Open Atrium. Jive Engage Platform. It is reliable, scalable, and relatively configurable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool. The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Source: Nielsen Online The We Are Media Festival of Tools is starts the last week of work on the Nonprofit Social Media Toolbox with a focus on social networking tools and widgets and apps. So for today, our focus is on social networking sites.  And perhaps nonprofits?)

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 26, 2008

Changeblogger Ning social network to connect with other changebloggers. Since then, a number of different changeblogger tools, communites and events have been created which I encourage you to join, and to invite others to join: 1. Changeblogger Facebook to connect with other changebloggers. 1st D.C.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 22, 2009

Social Actions , the platform that makes it easy for individuals and organizations to share actions across the web, has just launched it’s Ning-powered social network: My.SocialActions. It’s built on Ning, so it has some features you’re probably familiar with, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

This week, we're talking about Module 5: Social Networks (and widgets) for Community Building, Taking Action and/or Fundraising. This module takes a look at ways that you can build an online community, engage people and inspire them to take an action, or raise money using social networks and fundraising tools.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 19, 2010

For me (and only for me - I’m not making any generalizations for others) this being almost always-on connected to the 140 characters-or-less social networks lead me to an external, alienated, busy-busy existence – the opposite of the direction I want to go. (By “alienated&# he meant alienated from ourselves.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

The technology here will better allow nonprofits to form relationships with constituents, independent of the social network on which the initial relationship is created. Myspace, Bebo, and Six Apart Join Google Open Social from TechCrunch. Watch out for Google's Facebook killing strategy, OpenSocial.

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Care2

JANUARY 3, 2011

However, there is a new class of free agent out there, specific to social networks: " the free agent community.". The free agent community exists on a social network and decides, as a group, to raise funds for an unafilliated nonprofit organization.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I hear people suggesting building their own social networking website. 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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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2009

Nonprofit association NTEN , consultants Common Knowledge and social networking software providers ThePort conducted a joint study of nonprofit organization and their use of and attitudes towards social networking tools. The survey asked about two types of social networking presences a nonprofit organization could have.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2010

Manny Hernandez, has this review of the Networked Nonprofit on his blog and on Amazon. Manny is the author of Ning for Dummies, but he is also the founder of tudiabetes and estudiabetes , 2 social networks with more than 22,000 members. He’s been at the center of the Social Media Diabetes community.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

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. Ning is a platform that allows individuals or organizations to create branded social networks.

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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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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2009

He told me that a few months ago, they'd set up a social networking hub on Ning for friends and constituents of the organization to connect with each other. Tags: Online Activism Online Recruitment Social Networking Software Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 " read more. Tools Web 2.0 Tools Web Building.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

You may be able to achieve your goal, and reach your audience simply by commenting and participating on social networks that already exist. How much time do I have to spend on social media? Check out Beth Kanter's post, How Much Time Does It Take to Do Social Media? What social media tool(s) should I use?

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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 1, 2008

I'd also include your individual social networking profile which can be a great way to spread buzz (or spread yourself too thin.) (10-15 Once you have content created through these methods, it can be easily shared using the buzz tools above through social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Our earlier attempts at getting a Wikipedia page up were focused on a page about TuDiabetes, the diabetes social network we run in English. Manny Hernandez is a social entrepreneur, community strategist, president of the diabetes hands foundation , founder of tudiabetes and estudiabetes , author of ning for dummies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development. It may be the basics not social networking tools.) Ning is a platform that allows you to create your own social networking site. Philthanthropy. Tools and How They're Used.

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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 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. The site is called Museum 3.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

Our use of social networking has exposed many cultural differences within our organization. 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. These two differing cultures recently came to head over social networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Anol Bhattacharya, repeat donor to the other socially networked campaigns I've run for Cambodia, not only donated, but made two blog posts ( Soul Soup and here )and posted it to the Internet Times Ning Network created by Jay Cross. Yep, it's working! Thanks Julia. Thank you everyone!

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