[VBbuilders] APRES NING

[Mark Petz]

Plug in sounds perfect -- and reminds me of dodgy turbo chargers

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Thompson, Steve
<S.D.Thompson at tees.ac.uk>wrote:

>  Hi All,
>
> Sorry for crossposting but I’ve seen lot of traffic on the demise of Free
> Nings and what the alternatives might be. There seems to be lots of alts and
> of course folks have their preferences. I don’t think there is a “like for
> like” alternative to Ning and I think I’ll be cautious in future about
> getting hooked into any free provider in future.
>
> I guess the rule of thumb is the purpose at hand. A 30 day project or a 6
> week course might be ok to try one of the Ning lookalikes and not care about
> longevity. For anything else we probably want to go self-hosted. Like I said
> we all have our preferences and I like Wordpress so I’m looking at
> BuddyPress. I have an instance running without too much hassle. I had a
> slight detour to the forum and had to add a line of code so it’s probably
> not a total non geek option (yet) but it seems OK. My instance is here
> http://www.tvcm.co.uk/community and I have a plugin ready to go to import
> my NING membership.
>
> All good fun eh?
>
> Steve T
>
>
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> Teesside University
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