I don’t normally wholly post others blog posts, but I think spreading the word about alternatives to NING , which will be ending its free service, is a useful thing. had collected a few more, but I’ll add them to the Alternatives to Ning GoogleDoc! An Alternatives to Ning. Wes Fryer also considers alternatives. MORE >>

Today, Ning made a bunch of free apps available for download. have added five of them (Ning’s limit) to the Internet Time Community to assess how they work. Since the top menu of a Ning community is limited to 14 items, I collapsed some links into sub-categories. Mouse over Add-ons to see the new apps. Thanks. MORE >>

As our Work Literacy Ning site (2008) is in danger of getting bumped off the Net due to Ning’s new pricing policy , I will post some of the key articles here so we don’t lose them. As a learning professional, you will want to think of Ning in two ways. cannot do that with Gmail or Skype or Ning. MORE >>

Following Techcrunch's posting on Thursday, Ning's bubble bursts. that the new CEO of Ning had written to its staff to tell them that it will phase out their free service and that "existing free networks will have the. transition off of Ning ", there has been a lot of blogging activity about Ning. . into the fire! MORE >>

Asynchronous Discussion I personally have found that Ning works great as a tool for all sorts of different needs. Creating a new Ning network is very easy and it gives you a lot of what you would want / need as a work team. My primary interest here are the methods and tools that allow us to work better as part of remote work teams. MORE >>