Plan B

The recent Ning announcement was a particular blow to the HEFCw funded “Peer Support Network” project. It couldn’t have happened at a worse time: the 2009-2010 engineering research project is nearly over and the allocation process for 2010-2011 is about to begin. We need to roll over the students immediately,…

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Reactions to the Ning "Bombshell"

April 15, 2010 TechCrunch was early to the news of Ning’s change of strategy, which at the time was still known only to a few members of the Ning creator’s network. Posterous announced that it would be building a Ning blog importer for free — but that still leaves all…

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Ning … here today, gone tomorrow.

Just noticed this post (No more Ning) from James Clay which comments on this post on the Ning creator’s network which tell’s us that Ning is planning to phase out its free social networks to concentrate on their paid customers. The timing is immaculate: on the day as on which…

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A Beginner's Guide to Social Engineering (the Slides)

Cross posted from Fresh and Crispy Today I presented a “Lunch and Learn Session” to colleagues at our Staff Development Unit. Here are the slides which are hosted at Google Docs. The creation of a Ning network for SALT was a highlight of the session, and unfortunately that bit is…

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Beginner's Guide Social Engineering

(Warning, this post contains really bad puns!) EG-353 – an Engineering Research Project module, has been using the Ning social networking platform all year as part of an e-learning enhancement project on Peer Support and Assessment. On 15th April, I will be presenting a Staff Development Unit Lunch and Learn…

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Another Wave … or a bit of a trough ?

Have Google created enough of a Buzz around their new social networking platform to drag all you Gmailers’ attention away from Facebook ? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8506148.stm With loads of features (making this a very intimate service – we are told) and even getting Sergey Brin to put his weight behind it at…

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