Welcome to my little experiment with Ning...

[seanodmvp]

Please post a comment to tell me you came...maybe something simple...
who are you?
how did you find this?
do you think we should try to make this live on?
Share your url if you have one.

You can find me most days at www.communitygrouptherapy.com.

sean

[JulieG]

I'm doing the same thing you are - messing around with ning, trying to understand the pros and cons of having millions of disparate social networks. I first read about ning on Lifehacker, and found out about this particular ning (are these called nings?) on your Community Group Therapy blog.

Sure, let's make it live on. goingon.com looks to be another roll-your-own social network service - I haven't looked into it yet, but I will. I'm curious to learn and discuss how people are using this service, and what the whole social network scene will grow into. Surely we'll soon see a service that will allow all your profiles and posts from the various networks aggregated on one meta network.

I blog at http://juliegomoll.typepad.com
I ning at http://feistyatheists.ning.com/ (not sure if I'll do anything with that - it's mostly for playing)

[seanodmvp]

Thanks Julie, glad to hear your perspective. I'll check out your Blog and ning.

sean

[Jana Carter]

I came, I saw, I joined. I found your post using the nifty feature in Outlook 2007; RSS feeds. Yes, I admit, I am a Sean groupie and subscribe to your blog. Hey, maybe it will net me an autograph some day ;)

Communities are living, breathing, changing, dying entities. Everything is worth a shot, not many live, but that is the exciting part about partaking in communities; the quest to figure out how to make the community ecosystem even more usable and valuable.

I agree the biggest issue I now face is remember all of my communities, where have I posted, where did I want to read, participate, join, etc. How do I develop my credibility if I have to visit so many locations and create various profiles? It is time to figure it out...

[seanodmvp]

try out www.cocomment.com (if you haven't already) at least as a way to keep track of your various conversations:)

then come work for me. :)

Sean

[WNewquay MVP]

Well wouldn't you know it, I typed in the wrong box.

What should have been a reply turned into a blog entry. I shouldn't be allow to type, or click buttons I guess.


Thanks for the zing in the ning
Hope to see you tomorrow.

[seanodmvp]

:) And thankd for you Zing...see you soon.

[Evelyn Ruf]

I learned about your Ning experiment from your blog and share your skepticism about yet another community, but heck, I'll try anything once. At least the topic is one I am fascinated with.

Curious about online social networks I joined an active MSN Group some years ago. It was a purely social group for over-40s, well-monitored and very prim and proper with a lot of sharing of positive thoughts, poems and overly cute animated gifs. Not exactly my cup of tea, but I found it interesting and even a little disturbing to observe the exuberance displayed in these online friendships. Didn't these people have real flesh and blood friends? I visited the group again 1 1/2 years later and was surprised to find that it had degenerated into a repository for contact ads from sex maniacs. Whatever happened to all the old goody-good members? Did the whole community rely on the efforts of one person to monitor the group and keep it clean? Did the members tire of their initial enthusiasm over their virtual friends and get back to their real lives? Did their online friends turn into real friends, making the online interaction unnecessary? I wish I had monitored the group longer to observe the reasons behind the downfall of the community. Now I'll never know.

[seanodmvp]

welcome to the "Ning - thing!"

[Deirdre]

deirdre, a fellow web omnivore and the labVIEW community specialist at national instruments
looking forward to playing around on, er, researching another cool web app.

[Gregory David Moring]

A friend invited me onto Ning last week, and I've just been scouring for networks to join. This one popped up and seemed interesting, especially as I've only recently become acquainted with the term "Web 2.0." I don't yet know what sort of contribution I'll be able to make to this place, so I intend to figure it out as I go along. Cheers!

Greg

[seanodmvp]

Hi Greg..thanks for dropping by...honestly this spot is very quiet. I tried out Ning (like you) and have had a hard time sticking with it. In terms of web2.0, I blog the topic a lot at www.communitygrouptherapy.com

Sean