How Nonprofits Can Use and Build Online Social Networks: Change.org and Ning

The second Tuesday of each month, social changemakers and web innovators get together to network, socialize and share ideas at Net Tuesday, an event produced by NetSquared, http://www.netsquared..., a project of TechSoup, http://www.techsoup.o....

This month our two presenters will be Gina Bianchini, the co-founder and CEO of Ning, Inc. (http://www.ning.com)..., and Benjamin Rattray the CEO of Change.org (http://change.org)....

Ning gives you the opportunity to create your own social network for anything. Today there are over 48,000 social networks on Ning. You can create your own social network for free in a few minutes at www.ning.com.

Change.org is a social network for hundreds of social causes and over 1 million nonprofit organizations. Change.org aims to transform social activism by serving as the central platform that connects like-minded people, whatever their interests, and enables them to share ideas, exchange information, and collectively act to address the issues they care about.