I had wondered if I was ever going to hear from Ning about my free network and what my options are about keeping the network there. As it turns out, today was the day, and the details made me glad I had already made the switch to Buddypress for the Survivors Network. According to their…
Yesterday I wrote about how the new community pages feature of Facebook made my profile less useful because it now links to a community page for various things in my profile, like the place I work, that doesn’t exist. Not being in marketing it didn’t occur to me today until I saw someone else talking…
I’m sure many of you who use Facebook have seen some mention of the new “feature” where instead of simply having all of your interests, schools, workplaces, etc. in your profile be a link to a search for that phrase, they now want you to link all of those to public pages. Thereby making your…
This post by Michelle Golden is actually referring to dress code policies, but I think the sentiment certainly applies to what I’ve been saying around here. Just imagine this quote when it comes to employee’s use of social networking tools: When can we treat our team members like the judgment-applying knowledge workers that they we…
I did finally decide on using Buddypress to roll my own social network to replace the Child Abuse Survivors Network that is currently on Ning. I’ve been spending quite a bit of my free time this week installing it, testing it, adding plugins, testing some more, fixing issues, removing plugins that weren’t working, and just…
I’m sure many of you have seen the announcement that Ning will be closing down the free side of their social network platform. The news hit me personally, as I have been using Ning to host a social network for child abuse survivors. One of the biggest reasons I choose that platform, as opposed to…