Comments on: Five months later, reflections on Ning http://bydanielvictor.com/2008/07/02/five-months-later-ning/ How one reporter uses blogging, social networking and the rest of the Web Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:58:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: suzanne http://bydanielvictor.com/2008/07/02/five-months-later-ning/#comment-107 suzanne Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:49:15 +0000 http://bydanielvictor.com/?p=83#comment-107 The thing with Ning is that it gives the audience just one more thing to sign in to, which gets tiresome. You have to really work on its upkeep and continuously post content on Ning that makes people want to bother checking in nearly every day. And sometimes things that are newsworthy aren't always the most inspiring for people. Email and social networks are easy to ignore; phone calls, not so much. I'm working a separate project involving Ning, and I'm going to turn some of the RSS feeds into email lists via FeedBurner -- that way, the content comes to them and reminds them in daily digests to revisit the site. I don't know if it will make a difference, but I'll give it a shot. I know I'd appreciate something like that. The thing with Ning is that it gives the audience just one more thing to sign in to, which gets tiresome. You have to really work on its upkeep and continuously post content on Ning that makes people want to bother checking in nearly every day. And sometimes things that are newsworthy aren’t always the most inspiring for people. Email and social networks are easy to ignore; phone calls, not so much.

I’m working a separate project involving Ning, and I’m going to turn some of the RSS feeds into email lists via FeedBurner — that way, the content comes to them and reminds them in daily digests to revisit the site. I don’t know if it will make a difference, but I’ll give it a shot. I know I’d appreciate something like that.

]]> By: Ryan Sholin http://bydanielvictor.com/2008/07/02/five-months-later-ning/#comment-106 Ryan Sholin Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:24:26 +0000 http://bydanielvictor.com/?p=83#comment-106 I wonder if the nature of Ning - a big, scalable social network with an activity feed - is that it works better with larger numbers of participants? Trying to think of what works better for 30 active commenters on community news... Maybe the old-school anonymous message board serves their needs, even if it doesn't serve ours as journalists? I wonder if the nature of Ning - a big, scalable social network with an activity feed - is that it works better with larger numbers of participants?

Trying to think of what works better for 30 active commenters on community news…

Maybe the old-school anonymous message board serves their needs, even if it doesn’t serve ours as journalists?

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