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Ten leading platforms for creating online communities

Ten leading platforms for creating online communitiesTen leading platforms for creating online communitiesJust an editing note: You have Drupal listed as #3, so you have two #3's on the list. Feel free to delete this after correcting.RE: Ten leading platforms for creating online communitiesWhy did you choose not...

Tags: Social networking, Ning.com, leading platform, online community, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Teachers want more training...no kidding

Teachers want more training...no kiddingThe new OpenSUSE 11 has an education software sourceYou may want to check out the new OpenSUSE 11 released yesterday: it has an education software source which you can turn on easily. :-)Important new feature: Yast has become a whole lot faster.It's standard long term...

Tags: Workforce management, training and certification, Ning.com, Moodle, Novell OpenSuse, training, OpenSUSE 11

Discussion threads 2008-06-20

Additional Resources

Outcome Based Social Networks: Yet Another CRM at the Speed of Light Excerpt

I'm going to finish the book today. CRM at the Speed of Light, 4th edition will be done by the time that the day ends - though I suspect a lot sooner.  It's going to be a 750 page tome - mostly print, some supplemented electronically, on CRM 2.0 -...

Tags: Network, Outcome, YouTube Inc., CRM, Outcome Based Social Networks, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-06-18

What would you do for a free iPhone 3G S?

What would you do for a free iPhone 3G S?I'd eat a Klondik Bar! nt.RE: What would you do for a free iPhone 3G S?"I?ve given up all hope of publishing anything meaningful on ZDNet"Really? I didn't know you'd started.Easy one.Run Vista unpatched... on a scrap machine.Feel Your PainYou could...

Tags: Smart phones, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G S, iPile, Apple iPhone 3G, Give Up

Discussion threads 2009-06-17

Ning, king of custom social networks?

Ning, king of custom social networks?Ning is garbagegreat idea for networking but the content on these sites are junk.... content needs to be better...Here are two companies who are more interested in making social content instead of social networking oneapollomatrix.com is more of an SEO company that buildscustom social content...

Tags: social networking, Ning, network

Discussion threads 2009-03-21

Tech will see direct, indirect benefits from stimulus plan

Tech will see direct, indirect benefits from stimulus planThe debt is already thereThe irresponsibility of the previous administration to carry on an all out war with decreases in taxes is what got us into this mess in the first place. We've been draining money on overseas projects for the last...

Tags: indirect benefit, stimulus plan, benefit

Discussion threads 2009-02-12

Mitigating the collision course of social networks

* Jennifer Leggio is on vacation Guest editorial by Michael Gaines Do you remember Venn diagrams from high school math? Those are the overlapping circles which represent where two groups intersect. Social media circles have started to intersect as well, and keeping them apart...

Tags: Nickname, Network, Picture, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-12-26

From Peter Chernin to Mark Cuban: Picking Jerry Yang's Replacement

So, Peter Chernin's name keeps coming up as a potential replacement for Jerry Yang as CEO of Yahoo. Chernin's the always-cool president of News Corp. Under Rupert Murdoch and Chernin, the old-line publisher and broadcaster has shown serious savvy about new media. People...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Mark Cuban, Peter Chernin, Corporate Communications, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Marketing, Management, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-11-19

A quick holiday request

A quick holiday requestCorrection.Most of us in the U.S. do not have today off. Only school systems and Federal employees, not GIs, get the day off. Many of us veterans are at work today.RE: A quick holiday requestFor Middle School through yr 12 Art I like http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/Your better...

Tags: quick holiday

Discussion threads 2008-11-11

News to know: Internet worm's 20th birthday; Windows 7; Apple patents; Ubuntu

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 to scale to 256 processors Add Windows Mobile 6.5 to the Microsoft roadmap John Carroll: Windows 7 - user interface...

Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Patent, Internet, Microsoft Windows 7, Internet Worm, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-31

Get those ToS sorted

Get those ToS sortedNing can delete everything at their whim?Really? Their business model is "no responsibility". They expect anyone with data to use them?Or do they send out an email amending the terms?Kind of like my credit card company constantly sending term amendments every time they want to increase...

Tags: E-mail, Strategy, Ning, WidgetLaboratory

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

'Last.fm in a Box', ad-supported music service expands its "offsite community" strategy

CBS continues to show signs that it understands the distributed nature of the net -- and no, I'm not saying that because it's in the process of buying ZDNet's parent company CNET. Today, Last.fm (which CBS purchased in May 2007) announced a major expansion to its "offsite...

Tags: Strategy, Advertisement, CBS Broadcasting Inc., Last.fm, Box, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-06-04

Are we headed for a nuclear winter?

Caroline McCarthy's post on News.com describing the juxtaposition between the party atmosphere underpinning Web 2.0 and the views of certain veterans poses awkward questions: Amid the drunken revelry and pulsing electronic music, one prominent tech-industry veteran at the party was asked exactly what Chi.mp is. "I'll tell you what...

Tags: Bank, Information Technology, Investment, Forrester Research Inc., Web 2.0, Social Networking, Strategy, Financial Services, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-25

Is Facebook a PaaS contender?

Nate Westheimer's observation about Google's App Engine: Aiming At Facebook, Not Amazon set me thinking. Should Facebook's F8 platform be considered a contender in the platform-as-a-service wars? Since my perspective is firmly on PaaS in the business world rather than as a consumer play, Facebook isn't really...

Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Facebook, PaaS, App Engine, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-04-11

The 3-D Web Goes Thin

Increasingly, it looks like Weight Watchers has gotten hold of the Semantic Web. Fat is out. Thin is in. And while no one’s counting points, it certainly looks like, thin clients will increasingly play a central roles in attracting organizations to the 3-D web. A number of...

Tags: 3D, Web, 3-D Web, Vivaty, ScreenCaster, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-03-31

News to know: Apple; Hakia; EclipseCon; ActiveX security

Notable headlines: David Morgenstern: Did Microsoft beat Apple to dual-sided touch technology? Jason O'Grady: Apple bumps Airport Express to 802.11n Paul Miller: hakia licenses OntoSem technology to third parties Paula Rooney: Run-time rival for Java, .NET? Dana Gardner: EclipseCon debuts...

Tags: Security, Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., ActiveX, Data Centers, Semantic Web, Storage, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-18

AOL acquires Bebo for $850 million; Social networking field narrows

AOL has made its social networking move, acquiring Bebo and getting access to its membership of 40 million worldwide. In a statement Thursday, AOL said Bebo is a "perfect complement to AOL’s personal communications network and puts us in a leading position in social media." ...

Tags: Bebo, Network, America Online Inc., News Corp., Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-13

Google Sites - spoiled by usability issues

As I pen this, the fanfare around JotSpot Revista aka Google Sites is just getting underway. I'm not impressed. In fact I'm deeply disappointed. To call this - as noted by Dan Farber: "This is a key last hole in the Google Apps suite," Matt...

Tags: Google Inc., Service, Wiki, Productivity, AJAX, Smb/Sme, Online Communications, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-02-27

Giving Ning another shot

Giving Ning another shotInteresting ideaI can see where this would be helpful in having an online resource as a supplement to a course. Does your district have any policies on hand about staff created websites, blogs, etc. Are there any district concerns about security and liability in written communication between...

Tags: Web technology, Ning, Giving

Discussion threads 2008-01-30

Ning, king of custom social networks?

On Working Webware, ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber and Webware.com's editor Rafe Needleman sit down with Ning CEO Gina Bianchini to find out about the company's social-network platform strategy and how the CEO plans to compete against other social-network enablers. Farber and Needleman then analyze the company's viability in...

Tags: Network, Ning, Rafe Needleman, Social Networking, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, CEO, Personal Technology

Videos 2008-01-28