what web tool do you recommend for...

[Tonnie van der Zouwen]

Hi John and other networkers,  

I set up 4 Ning communities and I have very good experiences with Ning. One
is for the Dutch Open Space community, see www.openspacenl.ning.com You can
customize the look and feel, chose to ban the adds (if you want to pay for
it). However, please consider that only 10% of the visitors of community
sites (in Europe) tend to be "creators", who actually contribute with items
in discussions and information. An interesting analysis described in the
article "How Europeans are adopting social technology", see
http://www.tonnievanderzouwen.nl/wiki/images/7/71/Jennings%2C_Rebecca%2C_Eur
opean_Social_Technographics_Revealed_.pdf 
You need some key members to initiate ongoing interaction. 

What I like about Ning is the huge amount of photo, video and audio files
you are allowed to upload. And it is very easy to invite members and sent
messages to all members. I am using Ning also to write a book together with
two colleagues. A shortcoming is that it is not so easy to share a list of
word or pdf files, you have to attach them to a discussion item or you can
use the application box.net (up to 1 G of free web space; I use it as back
up for my very important files too) on your personal page. Ning is working
on an application for easy file sharing, to be released in February I think.


I am quite pleased with Ning, I have tried some other software before, for
me this is the best so far. 

Good luck, 

Tonnie

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] Namens John Engle
Verzonden: vrijdag 9 januari 2009 14:14
Aan: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Onderwerp: Re: [OSLIST] what web tool do you recommend for...

Thank you Danilo for your quick response.

I've set up Ning for two different networks I'm involved with. So far  
it doesn't seem to be the ideal for us. But perhaps I could do better  
at customizing it to our specific needs. I've also heard comments from  
others that they're not so wild about it. How about on this list, are  
people using Ning to make it possible for groups to start  
communicating before conferences? If so, have you been pleased or not?

Perhaps I need to do more experimenting with facebook and linked in  
for this specific need.

Thanks again, Danilo.

John


On Jan 9, 2009, at 2:21 AM, Danilo Kozoderc wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Quite good and enough simle is Ning (www.ning.com), otrher  
> possibiliti is use if exisisting web communiy (Faceboog, LinkedIN)
>
> Regards.
>
> Danilo
>
> John Engle pravi:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> What's your favorite web tool for inviting people to communicate  
>> with one another prior to a gathering?
>>
>> Ideally, it is easy to use for non-techies, not software download,  
>> not too expensive, fast, and has a simple and clear interface.
>>
>> The wikis that I'm familiar with are not user-friendly enough for  
>> many folks.
>>
>> On another note, anyone have experience with Adobe Acrobat Connect  
>> Pro? It looks impressive and I'm interested in learning from others  
>> who have used it, or something else desirable for video  
>> conferencing etc.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John Engle
>>
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