[cma-l] Ning Alternatives

Mon Apr 19 12:13:32 BST 2010

See the following article on Mashable for good alternatives to Ning:
http://mashable.com/2010/04/18/ning-alternatives/

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: NING GOES PREMIUM (Cathy Aitchison)
   2. The BBC and BCfm dual broadcast to provide local coverage	of
      Polish President Lech Kaczynski's funeral. (Phil Gibbons BCfm
93.2fm)

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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:23:46 +0100
From: "Cathy Aitchison" <cathy.aitchison at btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: [cma-l] NING GOES PREMIUM
To: "CMA List" <cma-l at commedia.org.uk>
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So glad you told me about this, Steve.
Ning is/was such a good product in the not-for-profit world. Despite the
scant mainstream media attention, Ning has been widely used by
not-for-profit organisations, especially those working in community
media /
social inclusion / digital participation etc.

I think Ning have underestimated the relative importance of the media
sharing element alongside the networking element. There are successful
Ning
networks with just a handful of members, publishing good media for
others
(incl non-members) to share. Ning's media loading and sharing systems
are
excellent, allowing the items to be hosted on the network as well as
embedded. Apart from the fact that audio is refered to throughout as
'music', it's great, especially for a small project sharing short audio
items.
eg. see: http://rwradio.ning.com for our Refugee Week Radio network.

Ironically, Ning may at last get some of the mainstream media attention
it
deserves - let's hope it can steer itself in the right direction before
the
storm breaks.

Best wishes
Cathy
http://www.refugeeweekradio.net
http://www.londonlinkradio.net
http://www.aitchisonmedia.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thompson, Steve" <S.D.Thompson at tees.ac.uk>
To: <cma-l at commedia.org.uk>
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 8:41 AM
Subject: [cma-l] NING GOES PREMIUM

> Hello,
>
> I don't know how many community media folks have picked up on this yet
but
> the twitterverse is abuzz with it.
>
> The social network NING is intending to go PREMIUM only. The
announcement
> from the new CEO (whilst cutting the Ning workforce by 40%) seems
quite
> stark, "pay for premium services or migrate off the network" Here is
the
> latest more friendly announcement http://bit.ly/aqbpGN
>
>
> This seems a shame because the enclosed nature of Ning and it's multi 
> media
> capabilities seemed ideal for Community Media groups. Whilst I don't
think
> any provider HAS to give their services for free this has been the 
> business
> model of NING for several years and they've built up a client base on
the
> strength of it that they are now going to disenfranchise. I think they
are
> likely to have a damaging backlash.
>
>
> Of course no-one said Ning is going away and all you have to do is pay

> (not
> sure how much yet) to keep your network. However, I hear warning bells
and
> I'm considering alternatives as are many people. I'm thinking of using
> BuddyPress with a Wordpress installation. I'll list some links below
of
> alternatives other folks are suggesting.
>
> http://bit.ly/9UFlaR
>
> There is a google doc here http://bit.ly/bQzzQG (warning this might
clog 
> up
> your browser)
>
> Steve T
>
> -- 
> Steve Thompson
> Community Media Manager
> Institute of Digital Innovation
> Teesside University
> M -  07795 826953
> E -  s.d.thompson at tees.ac.uk
> W - www.steve-thompson.org.uk
>
>
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:00:07 +0100
From: "Phil Gibbons BCfm 93.2fm" <phil at bcfm.org.uk>
Subject: [cma-l] The BBC and BCfm dual broadcast to provide local
	coverage	of Polish President Lech Kaczynski's funeral.
To: <cma-l at commedia.org.uk>
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The BBC and BCfm worked together today to provide local coverage of
Polish President Lech Kaczynski's funeral.

BBC Radio Bristol and BBC Somerset joined forces with Bristol community
station BCfm 93.2 on Sunday (18 April) to broadcast a special programme
to mark the funerals of the Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife
Maria.

The special programme was presented by BBC Radio Bristol's Trevor Fry
and BCfm's Magda Bond.  Trevor said: "The Polish community here in the
West of England is more than 20,000 strong. Understandably the sense of
grief is huge. We're pleased to be in a position to provide a programme
brought that community together on such a sad and poignant day."

The programme on Sunday, had reports from BCfm's presenter, Basha
Everett in Krakow, where the president's funeral was held earlier in the
day, from London where the service was being relayed on huge screens and
from Polish communities across the West Country.

Station Manager at BCfm 93.2, Phil Gibbons said: "We produce weekly
output for the sizeable Polish community in the area. This specially
produced joint programme meant that we were able to pool resources with
the BBC to provide an even better service for our audience on what was
such a moving day in Poland's history."

The special programme was broadcast at at 3pm on Sunday (18 April) on
BBC Radio Bristol (94.9fm), BBC Somerset (95.5fm) and BCfm (93.2fm).

Radiowski is Bcfm's Polish language show which can be heard from 6pm to
8pm on Sunday evenings on 93.2fm and www.bcfm.org.uk

Phil

Phil Gibbons - Station Manager
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