Here's a post I wrote about Ning and Nonprofit Use Best Practices http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2008/10/nonprofits-usin.html
A guide from Masters for New MEdia http://www.masternewmedia.org/social_networking/social-media/create-your-social-network-with-Ning-20070306.htm Ning is not a wiki - if your goal is to aggregate resources or collaboratively write a document - ning is not the right tool Also, there are some other white label social network tools that are free - CollectiveX is more geared towards work teams - has calendar and other options http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/wlsn_comparison_chart.html It all depends on what you want to accomplish Beth On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Ari Davidow <aridavidow at gmail.com> wrote: > I should clarify--I wasn't looking for a Museum or Cultural Heritage > site CoP, per se--I love archimuse and several of the others that have > been mentioned here. I was asking specifically about use of Ning (or > related services such as grou.ps) for various networking and CoP > purposes. For those who have used Ning, and the like, what problems > were you trying to solve, and did/does Ning solve that problem? > > ari > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:38 PM, j trant <jtrant at archimuse.com> wrote: > > hi Ari, > > > > there are now more than 1400 users registered at > > http://conference.archimuse.com -- the online site we've created with > drupal > > for the museums and the web conference community. > > > > while contributions are cyclical, related to the rhythms of the meeting, > the > > traffic on the site, particularly the bibliography of past papers, is > > constant. > ... > > > At 12:20 PM -0500 11/10/08, Ari Davidow wrote: > >> > >> Is anyone using Ning or grou.ps to help pull together intranet > >> activity or Community of Practice (or general community)? I keep > >> hearing about these tools, but have no sense how they are being used > >> or which, of the many issues I am grappling with, they address (if > >> any). > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > -- Beth's Blog: http://beth.typepad.com Nonprofits and Social Media
