Comments for The Community Architect

Comment on Ning Review by Nick

Nick — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:16:44 +0000

what do you guys think of dolphin as a replacement for ning?

or do you have any other community software/solutions that you would reccommend?

preferably free

i am a web designer and developer so i don’t mind getting my hands dirty in the tech side of making it work how i want it to.

thanks

Comment on Ning Review by AleX

AleX — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 03:43:43 +0000

hi,

Can U recommend good Social Network for web-site?

are there some good free social networks solutions?

thank U for the help!!!

Comment on Ning Review by What is Next For Social Media?

What is Next For Social Media? — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:45:06 +0000

[...] This will open the space for more secluded and niche social networks to spring up on platforms like Ning and [...]

Comment on Ning Review by islander

islander — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:25:22 +0000

hey people look at this ning is a waste of your time & investment look at the new rules thay put on about phaseing out free sites if you built a site and looking forward to grow your site not possible with ning anymore ning has no more free sites. you can,t market your site or advertise on ning. ning has no contact information but a blog pure nonsense people forget about ning take this advise seriously.

Comment on Ning Review by Creative Entrepreneur

Creative Entrepreneur — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:08:57 +0000

This article explained some of my most pertinent questions about ning and what kind of success I would have with it. I am seriously considering other options. But first, I am going to spend some time here on your blog to get some guidance on how to build and integrate the kind of community I was for my organization online.

Thank you so much for keeping us informed.

Sincerely,
Carmellita

Comment on Ning Review by Mike

Mike — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:27:23 +0000

If you create a network on Ning, you do not 100% own it. What you can do to your network is very limited. For those who have their own server, I would recommend Jcow social script(http://jcow.net), which you can download for free.

Comment on Ning Review by Greg Magennis

Greg Magennis — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:20:23 +0000

Thanks for the useful insights.
What would you recommend for an online community tool, outside of those mentioned above, for a secure group of business owners that are alumni of a leadership academy and need an online space to communicate and share/store content. We would not want to loose ownership of our IP stored in the online tool. The tool should have the ability to store member profiles, photos, video, content, and keep track of individual threads of communication under searchable categories. Have you heard of http://www.unifyer.com/?
Many thanks.

Comment on Ning Review by Nicholas Ramirez

Nicholas Ramirez — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:27:07 +0000

Hi Shan-

Thanks for stopping by!

If you mean using Ning for lead gen, I think you are fine.

Of course they have access to, and can read, anything you post to their system. It may be secure from the general public but sensitive information such as legal documents/agreements, financial records or anything “classified” is better secured on a roll your own wiki or Microsoft Sharepoint (I hate Sharepoint) and hosted internally.

If you’re looking for a method of content sharing/organization for your small business there are a lot of lucrative “up and comers” you might want to try, like Backpack It (http://backpackit.com/).

Comment on Ning Review by Yogashan

Yogashan — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:53:15 +0000

Hi there – I’ve started a ning network for my work group. It is “private”, by invite only, and the conversation is picking up. I only have 24 members at this point and am doing this as a bit of pilot project to try and demonstrate the usefulness of social networking for knowledge sharing across the company and all that jazz.

Now, I’m VERY concerned – does Ning own the IP of member content? So, let’s say our discussion leads to us developing a process of some kind (we are professional services firm), does Ning now own that? Are they reading our site?

I didn’t have our legal team look at this – this was sort of renegade move on my part. What kind of trouble could I be getting my company into????

I’d appreciate any insights and suggestions people can share…

Thanks.
Shan

Comment on Ning Review by stacy

stacy — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:26:05 +0000

Ning has HORRIBLE customer service. They make you pay a monthly fee to just have someone get back to you. Otherwise there is no answer. We pay for quite a few premium services (around $60/month) and we had a redirecting error which completely has locked us out of our account. Its been over two weeks since then and we can’t get anyone to get back to us. I would NOT reccomend using them.