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. Home Depot already using the tag to update on stories in the Hurricane???s Photo by Corburn. hat tip Tom Watson ).

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2009

My colleague, Manny Hernandez, has written the "Ning for Dummies Book." . For anyone who works in nonprofits and wants to know the secrets to success of setting up and running a "branded" social network on Ning, Manny's book is your best resource. Tags: ning. Both have been runaway success stories.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Ning/Yahoo/Google. Tags: liveblogging 10ntc events lisetning techsoup. 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. Where are the conversations? Communities. What to listen for: brand.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Actually uploading photos to Flickr doesn’t require much time, but shooting digital photos, editing them, and then properly adding them to Flickr sets and collections with tags and titles can become time-consuming. Niche Networks (Ning, Change.org, Care2, WiserEarth, BlackPlanet): 5 to 10 Hours Weekly.

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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. Connect with like-minded people. Post events.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2010

It’s because this is another example of how our tools are defining community. ( Last month’s post focused on that topic using Causes, Ideablob and Ning as references for the conversation.) Tags: fundraising issues otherblogs apple community debate donations iphone public media ssir tools. What does it mean to you?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 1, 2009

Check in on your tags and see if there isn’t any cleaning you can do! If you use Delicious , the social bookmarking tool, you can view all of your tags and how many items have been bookmarked to each of them. dashes (tags for “blooddrive&# and “blood-drive&# ). Delicious / Bookmarks. Communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. Or more specifically, the limitations of using tagging in managing large collections of photographs in institutions. Ning is a platform that allows you to create your own social networking site. Technorati Tags: stopcyberbullying NTC is just days away! Tools and How They're Used.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

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. Follow his blog for expert Ning advice. Tags: nptechtagsummary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

My friend, Manny Hernandez, founder of Tuiabetes Community and author of Ning for Dummies, let me know that today, November 14 is World Diabetes Day. Tags: twitter. He is using a tool called " Twibbon " that makes it easy for people to change their avatar to incorporate a visual for a particular cause. What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 12, 2010

Your organization, whether it has an organizational presence there or not, has people interested in your services, programs, mission or cause talking about it and everything else all over the social web – from mainstream networks like Facebook and Twitter to niche communities on Ning or even forums (some branded, some not).

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Use the tag #MPS09 to follow conversations and highlights from others at the event. – If you use something like Ning does that platform share a part of the liability? Tags: community liveblogging community building events mps09 online community patientopinion public services. most proud of job at an adoption charity.

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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. Tags: wiki. Last summer, during the height of the hurricane season, Andy Carvin, interrupted his self-imposed summer blogging siesta, to help organize online efforts and coordinate volunteers in advance of Hurricane Gustav.

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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. Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Then, I remembered the phrase flowed through the NPtech tag stream about six months as a reference to interface design.) Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2010

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. Tags: Networked Nonprofit. Manny Hernandez, has this review of the Networked Nonprofit on his blog and on Amazon. He’s been at the center of the Social Media Diabetes community.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. The tag points to individual resources, but is that knowledge? tagging capabilities to keep things organized. Consider Ning, Basecamp, and Zoho. rating items.

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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. Tags: Books. As of today TuDiabetes has almost 10,800 members and EsTuDiabetes has almost 5,400.

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NTEN

MAY 10, 2010

Let's create a Ning site! Tags: NPTech NTEN. 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? No budget for a web site redesign? Start a Facebook Page instead! Maybe it will work. Ah, 2008, you are missed.

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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. Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. What do you think? For others, the concept of ???public

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Manny Hernandez is a social entrepreneur, community strategist, president of the diabetes hands foundation , founder of tudiabetes and estudiabetes , author of ning for dummies. Tags: Fundraising storytelling. Regardless, watch it, share it and save a life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Manny Hernandez is a social entrepreneur, community strategist, president of the diabetes hands foundation , founder of tudiabetes and estudiabetes , author of ning for dummies. Tags: Guest Post wikipedia. If you have any lessons you have learned from your experience with your Wikipedia page, I would love to hear them.

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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. Tags: Internet & Technology. I hope Google edits that 80 minute video down to something more digestible. Is that too much to ask, Google?

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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. Tags: change management. It’s my job to listen to our members and empower them to get involved. We know what our supporters like, need and want.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Don’t use Ning, use Elgg. Tags: tools opensource Open Source Software nptech. 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. It’s kinda cool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

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. Tags: network effectiveness policy. First, we use a customized build of Salesforce, which the Salesforce Foundation has donated to us.

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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. Technorati Tags: stopcyberbullying Anyone who joins can post resources and share ideas, including text and video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

tools being deployed including Wikispaces, Delicious, Slideshare, Ning, Twitter, Meebo, YouTube and many others) We will students researching and experiencing social web enabled learning unfold on the wiki. Let look at the tagging standards for the project. How were the tagging standards developed? Who had input?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

tags: nonprofits socialmedia ). Thom was kind enough to do an interview with me about their ning use that I will publish in the next few days). College of Consultants Presentation - Kellogg Action Lab View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

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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 He was telling me about the organization's various forays into social media.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

You can always start with a Google search but don’t forget to use group directories on WiserEarth , Ning , and Facebook. Tags: NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. Search and select : Niche communities can be hard to find by their very nature. Also, make sure to ask respected members of your local nonprofit community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Found via the NpTech Tag at blip.tv. tools and nonprofits, be sure to tag 'em with 2ndwave (And, if you're wondering how Nancy embedded her powerpoint, she did it with SlideShare (more here ). Tagging and Social Bookmarking Social Bookmarking Showdown is a quick overview/review of the major social bookmarking services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2008

Gustav08 on Ning. If you search on the hash tag #gustav , you'll find many relevant threads. 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. shelter, looking for someone or are an evacuee.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Communities like Facebook, Twitter, and Ning are great networks to help brand your nonprofit, engage with your supporters, and connect with potential new members. Tags: Care2 News. But there’s no question you need to invest time in finding those people who are passionate about your nonprofits issues.

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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. Tags: Influence Collaboration. The world of collaboration platforms is a bit of a jungle. Approach it carefully, but remember to also have fun.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Now I'm that grown up who stays up late building communities for my obscure personal interests on Ning, and aimlessly chatting with my long-lost friends from elementary school on Facebook, and even (cough, cough) playing on Polyvore. . Tags: NPTech NTEN Communications. After all, I was that kid who stayed up late playing video games.

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