Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Earlier this year, Ning announced that it would be dropping 40% of it’s staff and dropping the free service which came as a shock to much of the community, including author of the Ning for Dummies book Manny Hernandez and spurring many forums and blogs to create lists of Ning alternatives that were still free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions. 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

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? There was also a webinar presentation of the results. Facebook), as well as their own hosted social networking communities.

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