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• Ning: An Affordable and Effective Platform for Non-profits to Run a Social Network (Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:44:15 -0700)
  Ning has gone a long way since they were featured on the Netsquared blog back in March 2007. Besides offering many more features than they had back then, there are now more than 500,000 social networks on Ning. We recently got interviewed by the folks at Ning along with the folks from the ASPCA Online Community about our use of their platform in TuDiabetes.com and EsTuDiabetes.com to run our social networks for people touched by diabetes.read more
• NetSquared Weekend Maintenance (Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:28:58 -0700)
  Hey Folks,
• 9 Steps to Prioritize Nonprofit Social Media Training and Experimentation (Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:30:05 -0700)
  Here's my contribution to this month's Net2ThinkTank question posed by Amy Sample Ward,   "What are the key questions nonprofit orgs should ask to help them determine how to prioritize social media training and experimentation as they do their technology and organization-strengthening planning?" 1. What are the goals you are trying to achieve this year? 2. Which social media tools could possibly help you achieve those goals? 3. If you don't know the answer to #2, ask yourself, where can I get a general overview of social media tools, along with examples of how nonprofits are using them? read more
• Networking at its best during the Dutch Innovation Seminar (Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:39:34 -0700)
  Paul Bulenzi (Local Representative for Jinja-Central in Uganda)and Siegfried Woldhek (founder of NABUUR.com) demonstrated together for an audience in the Netherlands of 150 innovation managers how NABUUR works. Through Skype, Paul Bulenzi raised a question about the shipment of mosquito nets from the US to Uganda. The audience came up with a number of possible solutions by sharing their ideas live and real time. One of the participants, Fons Sweegers, got in touch with a friend in the Netherlands who has a girlfriend in Uganda. She works for a US company that can probably help with the shipment. Now that's networking!read more
• Survival of the Resonant (Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:56:14 -0700)
  The following is a shout-out to all of my peeps in the business of online community management / outreach, many of whom have expressed, in one form or another, a moderate sense of terror regarding job stability in the present financial crisis. Considering I am not an economist, and that I have a mere bachelors degree in political science and philosophy from a state university, one might want to take the following with a grain of salt but... I do have a bit of hope regarding the opportunities provided by this somewhat grim economic environment.read more
• Apps and More: The Social Media Campaign (Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:17:01 -0700)
  We have seen it and heard about it time and again, but the Obama campaign is capitalizing on social media use and setting some great examples for nonprofits and other social change campaigns looking to try something new.
• The Hub: Another place for collaboration (Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:53:24 -0700)
  The Hub at Kings Cross, in London, UK, is officially opening its doors today.
• The bets we are placing (Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:37:18 -0700)
  You aren't going to let each other down. You all post on the blogs with generosity. You share your ideas and help others with theirs. And when we ask you to vote on the projects, you step up an do it thoughtfully. Innovations happens where there is desire, need and constraints. And we know that people who are working to make the world a better place are working from a place of passion. They all -- you all -- see the need and you are still getting up every morning and trying to make change. And that makes for a creative energy that sparks innovation. Innovation happens, not in spite of constraints, but because of them. And it's innovation that can really work. You need help to make the innovation real.read more
• Announcing the Alpha Release of Social Media Toolkit (Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:59:44 -0700)
  I am happy to share an early testing release of the NewsCloud Social Media Toolkit with you. read more
• Just registering with Technorati (Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:57:47 -0700)
  <a href="http://technorati.com/claim/szsezak69e&quot; rel="me">Technorati Profile</a>