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Free Alternatives to Ning

Forum One

Ning , the leading free social media platform provider has recently lost not only its CEO, but also about 40 percent of its workforce. Freshly-appointed CEO Jason Rosenthal posted last week , Ning will now "double down on our premium services business." Additions: Photos, wikis, video, search, email notifications, and chat.

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Nonprofits Using Ning: An Interview with Community Media Workshop and Best Practices

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. But many nonprofits are using Ning for peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and learning.

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Making Media Connections: Ning Site

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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 Why did you select ning?

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How Many Hours Per Week Should Your Nonprofit Invest in Social Media?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Creating Video Content : 15 Hours Weekly. Finally, and even if your nonprofit is not yet producing videos (you can “Favorite” videos to build your channel), you should have a YouTube Channel. It is highly trafficked and should be the foundation for your nonprofit’s video campaigns.

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How to Turn Video Views Into Life-Saving Dollars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2010, we wanted to let people know about the Big Blue Test through a video that we’d hope would go viral. At least 100,000 views was our goal… not millions of views, but enough to make it one of the most popular diabetes videos on youTube (competing with Nick Jonas and Wilford Brimley). They become viral. 1 and Nov.

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Listen First! Finding Networks and Connections in Social Media

Amy Sample Ward

Mixed Reality events – conference going on in Second Life with a live streamed video into Second Life, it expands the audience exponentially. Ning/Yahoo/Google. Google Alerts – remember that they aren’t always accurate or enough to find everything. Conversations take place in both places separately and together.

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StopCyberbullying, Video Messaging Reminder, and My BBC Interview!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you have not already checked out the ning site that Andy put together, it's here. Paul Lamb sent me a pointer to a cool video messaging tool called Eyejot that he had just posted about on his Cool 'n Conscientious, a social networking site dedicated to leveraging emerging information tools for social change.