I Love Smaller Indiana So Much, I Created a New Ning Platform For My Community!

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Comment by Nicki Laycoax on June 21, 2008 at 11:55am

Thanks for the comment Mark! Keep me posted!

I just started it a few weeks ago and it's starting to come along nicely! We have 38 members now! (that's small as compared to Smaller Indiana's near 2,500, but I'm excited!)

Let me know if I can assist with your study.

Comment by Mark Bucherl on June 21, 2008 at 9:20am

Hey, Nicki, I'm reviewing a networking group we established at Roche for researchers, currently based on SharePoint. My own personal experience with SI mirrors yours to the point that I've "requested" our IT department to STOP CONTENT FILTERING ning.com, so I can do some testing with a ning platform for ourselves. I'll have to look your (and other) sites over, though the experience of SI is certainly provocative.

Comment by Nicki Laycoax on June 1, 2008 at 2:02pm

Thanks Noah! My association has a few different websites, but none that enable interaction between the members... Since I'm such a social networking junkie and want and need activities to do and people to do them with, and since gas is so expensive, I thought this was a great way to satisfy all my needs!

I am working with a couple of realtors that focus on my neighborhood, as well as getting several of the Crime Watch officials involved to help it grow!

I'll keep you posted on how things go!

Comment by Noah Coffey on June 1, 2008 at 11:36am

What a great idea! If you have enough 'connected' neighbors that will participate, it would be a very interesting way to interact with them. I could see neighborhood associations doing something like this--and Ning is a great way to do it. I think my neighbors would use it to just complain about that one yard that never gets mowed or the house with a dozen cars parked out front!