Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Notes from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference for: Who : Speakers: Susan Tenby | TechSoup Global; Janet Fouts; Kira Marchenese. Ning/Yahoo/Google. You can only have a real impact and “control&# or influence over the public conversation about you, your organization or your programming if you are listening and engaging.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

No matter how many studies tell us that that the gadgets we're hooked on aren't good for us , most of us technology nerds still can't get enough. In part, it's because the technology is now so fast, easy and cheap to use that simply investing our time to figure it out seems like a pleasure. We're all nerds when it comes to new media.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. Open Data » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 11.08.07

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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. Ning is a hosted workspace product which boasts the largest numbers of users and networks of all of the private social networks. 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. Ning is a hosted workspace product which boasts the largest numbers of users and networks of all of the private social networks. Drupal Commons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2010

I met Claire Murray almost five years ago this month when I was working as a consultant for the Community Technology Center Networks to do training for human service agencies that provided homeless services. Claire was working with the Cyber Cafe @ Malden Square. I trained her staff on how to blog. (And, Manny Hernandez.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Same answer as for all of your nonprofit technology questions: be strategic.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

They haven’t really started yet, but hopefully it will be an interesting place to watch OpenSocial Directory – a directory of the apps that already exist to use OpenSocial (talk about caffeine and pizza!) Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

women and men, who uses information & communication technologies, e.g. mobile phone, internet, radio etc., So we are saying technology should be used for equality, not to perpetuate violence. So we are saying technology should be used for equality, not to perpetuate violence. Read more about the issue here.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

This technology selection and implementation phase can be daunting and complex. 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. Here are a few guidelines to help you along: Do a few things well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Here's what some nonprofit technology bloggers posted - Paul Lamb , Allison Fine , and Deborah Finn. Marnie Webb asks " Have you seen the Technology Innovation Fund projects ?" Looks like Zen and the Art of Technology scored the Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops. Today is Stop Cyberbullying Day. NpTech Talk.

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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 not easy!

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Participants explored the use of web-based social and collaboration technologies and their use in transforming congressional engagement with the public. technologies as an effective means of driving citizen engagement and increasing government transparency. technologies. Congressional use of social media and related Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Don’t use Ning, use Elgg. 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. Wanna set up a easy development environment on your Macintosh without struggling with Fink or MacPorts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

The Horizon Report , a research-oriented effort to identify emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher education. The report identifies six areas of emerging technology over the next one-to-five years: User-Created Content. Social Networking. Mobile Phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

Where do branded social networks like Ning sites fall? Study by Allison Fine Nonprofit Technology Survey from Robert Morris University (all technology, includes 1-2 questions for social media use) Blogging for the Hearts of Donors by Eric Mattson Social Media Adoption Study by Eric Mattson Social Media for Social Causes Study.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

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. Skelliwag has some awesome tips on how to fight poverty with technology. This is just one person's small effort to use the social web to change the world ! 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. A few interesting UK-based blogs to check out in the nonprofit technology space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. A loosely coupled group of nonprofit techies and social change activists decided to use the tag "NpTech" to identify web resources that would create an ongoing stream of information to promote and educate those working in nonprofit technology.

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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. 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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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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See3

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape, Ning and an internet thinker (and billionaire), wrote a post today on his blog called Inaugurating the New York Times Deathwatch. As the technology for display improves, and broadband becomes truly ubiquitous, we will start to see the newsprint go away. Not to mention the environmental issues.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 20, 2011

—– Aashika Damodar & collaborative technology for social impact. Survivors Connect is an organization supporting activists and building survivor advocacy networks using collaborative technologies to end modern-day slavery and human trafficking. Please share it with your networks!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

The nonprofit technology community is aksing: " What will Google Open Social mean for nonprofits? " Allan Benamer answers : Not much because the average nonprofit does not have the infrastructure and skill sets that would allow for rapid adoption for new technology. Michelle Murrain concurs " Most nonprofits haven???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

. #1: New + Tech = Resistance New + Tech + Education = Adoption Think about what the technology adoption curve. The simple fact is that “ Technology Changes, Humans Don’t." You have early adopters, a big scary chasm, and then more mainstreamed adoption of the tools. This pattern is the same no matter the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

The conference will showcase NTEN's new book about mission-driven technology. 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.

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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. tools] - it was a very interesting exercise, because it revealed the different ways of thinking about technology that we had. What do you think? For me, the web and 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2013

But both of the peer learning designs are for nonprofit practitioners who have fully embraced online networks and comfortable using them technology. Ning – Popular with nonprofits, reasonably priced, may require some customization. Like so many other examples, technology is not the most important part of a successful online community.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

do they have barriers to understanding technology? – If you use something like Ning does that platform share a part of the liability? depends on the set up, whether you are building communities in ning or drupal or from scratch, building in the ability for users to include video and so on is easier. Sexy or quick?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Niche Networks and Early Adoption (Instagram, Tumblr, Ning, Change.org, Care2, Wiser Earth, BlackPlanet, Quepasa, New Myspace): 5-10 Hours Weekly. At the time of writing the book, my gut told me that the technology that would empower the future of mobile giving hadn’t been released yet – now it has.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Niche Networks and Early Adoption (Instagram, Tumblr, Ning, Change.org, Care2, Wiser Earth, BlackPlanet, Quepasa, New Myspace): 5-10 Hours Weekly. At the time of writing the book, my gut told me that the technology that would empower the future of mobile giving hadn’t been released yet. Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly.

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2009

Kind of like if Ning , Google Talk , Gmail , Twitter and Facebook got smooshed together into a single open source environment. Pieces of the technology will work its way into mainstream tools, rather than anything like we see now in the demos really taking off on its own outside geek circles. Tags: Internet & Technology.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Niche Networks and Early Adoption (Instagram, Tumblr, Ning, Change.org, Care2, Wiser Earth, BlackPlanet, Quepasa, New Myspace): 5-10 Hours Weekly. At the time of writing the book, my gut told me that the technology that would empower the future of mobile giving hadn’t been released yet – now it has.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

technologies, everyone in your organization has more opportunities to speak for your organization than ever before. 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. Ah, a delicious new word: WIREARCHY . "

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference, we -- Carie Lewis , Beth Kanter , David J. ThePort, Ning) Multimedia content sharing is a powerful tool for storytelling, providing content that is easy to share and embed. It tends to be ideal when catering to the emotional side of issues and is well-utilized for user generated content.

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