Ning

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Permalink Reply by Jason Keath [jakrose] on November 12, 2008 at 2:54pm

so far so good, there are limitations, but its easy and very quick to learn. a good starter platform

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Permalink Reply by Matt Coapman on November 12, 2008 at 4:15pm

My experience has been good. I don't have much programming talent, actually none at all, and the fact that we can build a robust community that allows me to communicate easily with all members is very helpful.

I have added a couple features to our Ning site to enhance functionality and keep our dedicated members in the know. We gave an incentive for our community to sign up for email subscriptions through Feedburner. It sends an automated email (in HTML) with the latest site updates on our blog. Now I just update our blog and over 1,000 people are updated automatically. It helped build retention and keeps people coming back often. Plus the emails get into their inbox and not spam.

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Permalink Reply by Jay Radford on November 12, 2008 at 8:50pm

Have not been on ning much. Seems pretty easy to use.

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Permalink Reply by Adam Brooks on November 12, 2008 at 11:47pm

any other server apps or open source to recommend?

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Permalink Reply by Corey Creed on November 13, 2008 at 10:29am

We are using Wild Apricot (www.WildApricot.com) for www.HippoIMT.com. It works well but it still early in development.

Corey

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Permalink Reply by Jason Keath [jakrose] on November 19, 2008 at 10:28pm

have heard good stuff about wildapricot - there is also buddypress - a series of social media plugins for wordpress mu - still in development beta, but its the only one I have seen that is free, completely open sourced, and backed by a huge developer community

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