Social Networking News, Tools of the Trade - by Patrick Thornton on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 17:31 - View Comments

Another Recomendation for Ning

“Ning” is now the thing for building online communities

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I would compare the Ning solution to giving away an “Instant interactive community” platform as good as any Apple-design approach to a product. Which is to take something that is already out there and make it 10 times better.


    1) Put the user experience first
    2) Make it so you don’t have to know any programming code
    3) Above all make the time spent with the product a thrill

I have launched a few of these for Ning social network sites for clients over the last couple of months and I have to tell you – it’s drop dead easy to do.

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