Nonprofit Tech: Do It Yourself Social Networking

by: The Opportunity Agenda

Wed Apr 22, 2009 at 15:13

Ning sites are created around a specific topic (nonprofits, cats, ninjas) and allows users to control the visual design and what features are available.  Although a far cry from Facebook and it's 200 million users (that's more than the population of Japan or Brazil), Ning has 22 million registered users, about 6.1 million of whom are considered active.  And out of the million Ning networks, a fifth or so are active.

For an example of how nonprofits are using Ning, take a look at the site of our friends at National CAPACD, the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development.

Ning is free, with ads.  The premium version gets rid of that.

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