So I get this email during my recent and ongoing recuperation from the bed of pain known as gallbladder surgery (so lovely). I was shocked! It read, "Dear Network Creator, As we've mentioned on the Ning Blog (http://blog.ning.com), we're committed to improving the performance and capacity of the Ning Platform so that Network Creators can add all of the things that make their Ning Networks the...
Late with it but congrats to Daft Media for coming 8th in the deloitte fast 500 companies EMEA 2009 in London. Only one Irish company ever got as high a rank. Fancy joining the beta of dbtwang, a social network for guitar lovers? G’wan. New blog: Clive Nunn, furniture designer. Nice use of Ning. [...]
Six types of social media tools, Blogging, podcasting, Creating Online videos (including sketch casting and Screen casting) Social networking (participating in popular ones like LinkedIn and Facebook as well as creating your own using Ning) Message boards and comment forums (like Disqus) Using Wikis (both public as well as private) to share knowledge externally and internally Source:A [...]
MY THOUGHTS ON MY LIFE, MY WORLD MY ART... (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
is the title of my latest piece, it is my contribution to Manon's Journal in a Journal Exchange with the Hands and Heart Ning. This image shows the beginning, laying down the background. Then I added a piece of brocade which I subsequently painted with gold,copper and burnt orange. Close up of the face, notice the gold hair, used gold acrylic for this to brighen up the painting. Here is a close up...
Film geeks still slaver over the early output of John Woo such as Hard Boiled and The Killer for their devotion to style and fantastic action sequences. However, the mid-90s and early aughts brought disappointment in the director for his less-than-stellar fare including Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle Hard Target , the shockingly bad Mission: Impossible II , and the forgettable Philip K. Dick adaptation...
PALO ALTO, CA (MARKET WIRE) NutshellMail, the social networking tool which allows users to monitor and manage their social Web lives via email, announced today that it has been named a Ning Appathon Competition finalist in the Best Ported Apps category. Judged by a panel of industry experts, the competition recognizes the top innovators and leaders in developing original and ported applications for...
The Adventures of Mary and Joseph – The Road Movie presents a re-telling of the nativity with a series of nine short videos. Simply go to the Paperless Christmas website and the story should load (I had to use IE to view it). The screen displays an open road with a series of billboards to either side which is a neat alternative to the atheist billboard campaign . Click on the arrow to travel...
LeWeb has published its schedule for the upcoming global conference for tech in Paris, and it's looking pretty good. TechCrunch Europe is a media partner and is helping to organise the startup competition, so that's our interest declared. That said Loic and Geraldine Le Meur have clearly finessed the event back towards tech companies and brought a new focus on Europe I think. Here are some highlights...
The FREE 2009 K-12 Online Conference officially kicks off a week from today, on Monday, November 30, 2009. Five new teaser trailers have been added to our Conference Ning in the past week, and also posted to the conference blog. Check them out, and if you have not already: Join the K12Online Ning Subscribe to K12Online in [...]
You used to feel you knew about vampires. You put in the hours reading Byron, Bram Stoker and Sheridan Le Fanu, you watched Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee and George Hamilton (in Love at First Bite) deploying their mittel-European, Draculan accents ("Goot eeef-ning") and radiating elegant menace. And you picked up semi-scientific facts: vampires sleep during the day, are afraid of sunlight,...
1. The therapist who sent me down this path 2. The Ning network for supporting Grace in Small Things 3. That well over one thousand members have made and will continue to make GiST one of the happiest and warmest little social networks on the... Click on the title to view the full weblog entry. 10% of Schmutzie.com's ad revenue goes to Kiva.org, so a visit to Schmutzie.com is a donation to a worthy...
It was earlier this year that I reviewed an online community for pet lovers, and in that time span since, we’ve seen online communities pop up around the internet for just about any specific niche thinkable. Ning is a popular niche community building site, and in that popularity we’ve seen interests mix, people network, and [...]
The Young Professional Blogs Aggregator (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
I found this cartoon on Hugh’s blog today, followed by this explanation: I drew this cartoon this morning, while thinking about a conversation I had a couple of years ago: I was on the phone to an old friend of mine, a guy in his late forties, who was born and bred in Michigan, and is living there [...]
LUCKNOW: The final day’s proceedings of 19th Asian table tennis championship here appeared almost like a high-intensity Chinese training session. For nearly eight hours, barring a half-hour period when the Koreans joined the Chinese in ...
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