During the 2009 spring conference season curiosity, if not fear, was palpable among conference attendees. What is this social networking? How do I build it? How will people use it? What if it fails? And yet, just a short year later, the confusion and fear of the previous year had transformed in to practical and [...]

Perhaps you were too shy to ask or just didn’t give social media definitions  much thought. Either way, the evolution of social media terminology is  a fascinating subject. And new phrases are coming into the  spotlight at a prodigious rate. I  mean, just a few years ago, no one had ever heard of Twitter. [...]

5. Reach out to Donors with Regular Emails Socially-enabled private label communities should have a full palette of tools to help administrators connect with members regarding fundraising objectives. But email is still a viable and essential way to stimulate donorship. And it doesn’t have to be about asking for money. Moreover, email communications should be wrapped [...]

ThePort Network is proud to be a Gold Sponsor of NTC 2010 as we continue our productive partnership with our friends at NTEN. We couldn’t be luckier to have the annual conference in our own backyard along with our local host the Georgia Center for Nonprofits (GCN). Not-for-profit organizations large and small will benefit from the [...]

When a dynamic gathering is all about association leadership in the digital age, ThePort team is sure to be involved. That’s why we’re traveling to sunny Orlando for the DigitalNow conference starting Thursday, April 8 at the world-famous Contemporary Resort inside Disney World. Stop by and see us at our presentation area in the DigitalNow Resource [...]

At ThePort Network, we take seriously our commitment to furnishing quality social media solutions to leading not-for-profit organizations. But every once in a while, it pays to sit back,  take a break, and look at the lighter side of social networking. What better time to do it than April Fool’s Day? So without further adieu, we present [...]

SaaS (Software as a Service) is a model of software deployment whereby a provider licenses an application to customers for use as a service on demand. In terms of a social networking community, a SaaS vendor will offer the deployment as a monthly subscription in addition to an initial set-up fee. As adoption of social networking [...]