Alternative Solutions to Ning

Group where fellow Ning Network Creators can assist and brainstorm on good alternative Social Networking solutions, to Ning.
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  • Art Theory and Inspiration

    Me too! I am bare bones alright. I will try to figure out how to add you. I probably need your email address to add you! I can give you mine if you want to send me an invite. I do not really care if you see my bare bones attempt. Send me your email in a private message so I can add you.
  • Magic Happens

    I think that business should have ways to increase their buiness, but the free sites are important to people who can not pay.

    Most of the free sites are people who are shut-ins and on a fixed income, and the fixed income still may changed for some.

    The handiccapped and people without a way to make friends, depend on social networks to communicate and make friends and learn things that interests them.

    Ning is user friendly and this is why most people sign up. Now they are losing everything, losing a friend or many friends is like losing a family.

    And if it was not for the free ning sites less people will come here . Then less people will not be clicking on the business sites.

    They would take their business interests, even a buyer to the network they join. Not the network that cause them sadness.
  • Art Theory and Inspiration

    I agree Fantasyland. It seems like they made enough money off of us with advertising. I like your protest Fantasyland!
  • Magic Happens

    l do not know everything about this site, It is not too user friendly but one can learn just like we did with Ning. Also you can add the Skysa Bar to the bottm of the page.

    l have not invited anyone except one and we are trying to learn, but just wanting a screen look at spruz click on this link here

    http://magichappens.spruz.com/
  • Magic Happens

    And they would not ecept my FantasyLand name. l think some one else use that or it is considered spam, the word fantasy , So l name it Magic Happens
  • LOVE and LIGHT world

    IN MY OPINION - I AM VERY SIMPLE LIGHT AND DIRECT SOUL--- ALL THIS CRAZY PRESENT SITUATION ON NING IS ONLY REALLY GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR VARIOUS PEOPLE HOW TO INCREASE OWN NETWORK AND TO DRAW MANY NEW MEMBERS....:::))

    RAMSIEL... NOT INTERESTED IN THIS MATTER
  • Art Theory and Inspiration

    Path of the Craft I sent you an invitation to my site called Gallery 15. I hope you received it and can join. Great idea Love and Light. Good things can come from this. If you do not get my invite tell me I might be doing something wrong. It is trial an error for me. I will be going out this evening if you do not here back from me. Be patient. I will be intouch.
  • Magic Happens

    LOVE and LIGHT world , the paying sites are moving into the freebies sites to invite more people to their site. Sounds like the freebies are hit on hard. And if the paying sites are doing this now, what would those paying sites do to other paying sites.

    l was not here to have a large site, l was here to make friends. l made friends honestly and not went behind the creators back to have friend. But now l can see many are doing just that.
  • Art Theory and Inspiration

    I like your site on Spuz Magic Happenings it looks great. I really do not worry about these problems too much. Greed has been around along time. I am glad I met many nice people. Yes that is probably true about the paying sites. That might be manipulative and some have bad motives. You have to stay cool and not add to the problems. You have to see through all these games. If you constantly manipulate others people see through it and leave.
  • Art Theory and Inspiration

    I meant if you can try to see through those that manipulate and leave their sites. Sorry for the typos.
  • Temple of Our Lady of the Moon

    Fantasyland the new site looks hot!
  • Friends of Angela Lansbury - Bet

    Fantasyland you hit the nail on the head. I am both. Disabled, shutin and on fixed income. Ning's losss is other site's gains.
  • Friends of Angela Lansbury - Bet

    This one wouldn't fit my needs.
    http://www.igloosoftware.com/
    Says if you want it free you can have up to 25 members. My nings exceed that. I have about 40-50 member per ning.
  • Magic Happens

    Path Of The Craft, When you go to manage my site tab, they have all kinds of things in there, l used just a graphic l saved to my computer and set it to repeat,and l use seamless tiles for the back ground and set repeat. You can set you page layout like you want, l think just playing around you will get the look you want and learn to add the elements, It is a little different to get use to but it will grow on you. It may become bigger then ning.
  • Temple of Our Lady of the Moon

    Fantansy can you do a discussion on that? Or something?????
  • Magic Happens

    Well, not really do any discussion , l am still trying thing out, but with someone else it may be a breeze, l do know that it was not hard to start a website there.

    When you create a group, remember to add the elements that you want in the group, like members of the group, topic box and comment box. Just try it out, there is no law you have to stay.

    We will learn as we go along. And there is help there, They have a little icon on help under the manage my site tab. l am surprise that l made it look that good. l took the temp plate with tthe larger header they do have all kinds to try.
  • Magic Happens

    Oh! l forgot to add , they do have a css code if you rather use that. l want to learn to set up before really get into decorating it. lol
  • Temple of Our Lady of the Moon

    So what backgrounds work on Spruz? I would like to find something similiar to what I have on the Ning Temple
  • Maatjies

    I'm on spruz too now,tried wackwall and hated it
    http://cutoutqueens.spruz.com/
  • Temple of Our Lady of the Moon

    Spruz is slightly similiar to ning but there are a few features I dont like. I would like to see other spruz sites to see what we can do with it. Loading the videos is a pain in the arse!
  • Temple of Our Lady of the Moon

    I got some groups and a few videos up nothing like it is on Ning though. Gods did I mention this sucks?
  • Temple of Our Lady of the Moon

    I so agree with you there Taxi!
  • MY OWN SPACE 360

    I agree with Trannyspace , i dont like spruz at all.
    I have moved my 1000 strong site to grou.ps, although not perfect its the best of the rest (believe me I have set up alot of sites this week to try them out !!!)
    Grou.ps is only a small platform , but watching it over the last 12 months , i have seen great improvements.
  • Magic Happens

    Spruz let's me do things with it and l just do not have the hang of it. but l am learning. l would love to give you a link to a friend of mine that has her paga set up just like she has it on ning. she is on spruz.

    When you set up groups you need to add the topic box , the comment box, they are call elements. They have loads of different ways to set your page up.

    but l like grou.p but it looks sad compared to ning. l guess it can be nice once l learn things to do with it.

    Those are my choices but you need to see how many members you are allowed to have also.
  • Art Theory and Inspiration

    I set up a site for Gallery 15. It is still very much under construction and I need to figure out a whole lot like how to add slide shows and edit photos. This is what I have figured out in one day. It is not at all a bad alternative I am still working on It. There is so much computer stuff I have to get help with. Tell me what you think http://gallery15.spruz.com
  • MEDARD DU ROCHER - BOPE

    thank you for your invitation.
  • Transcription n Rewriting

    Hey this looks real cool Maatjies!
    Didnt think that spruz wud measure up!
  • The Douglas Archives

    Tried http://thatstoday.com It seems hard to sign in or join a group, but maybe they are just under pressure - there seem to be loads of test sites!

    Wonder where they are comming from?
  • Magic Happens

    You can put custom headers on spruz even put something on the footer. l am learning and if l just look around, l find a lot of things to do with spruz. l just hate the though that when you leave a message on someones page you can not leave a graphic, but l think that well change when we as new creators put in some feedback.
  • Magic Happens

    http://magichappens.spruz.com/member/?page=mail&save=3&ids=...
    l hope this link works but l got butterflies in my inbox on spruz. lol
  • Magic Happens

    l am on grou.p also, still testing both
  • World Of Rock 2 - Douglas

    Social networking at Country Road's
    http://countryroads.wackwall.com/
  • The Douglas Archives

    At the moment, Spruz is top of the pops, here is a list of places I've been:
    posterous.com
    plum.com
    socialgo.com
    yuku.com
    grou.ps
    jinty.com
    thatstoday.com
    Or maybe Elgg?
  • Magic Happens

    Same here, l like to test it some before inviting people. But l may have them go there and learn as l learn. Depends on wether l want to go thru that right now.
  • Friends of Angela Lansbury - Bet

    Are all these alternative links being listed in one comment post?
  • Magic Happens

    l wish we can have a group or something just for spruz so we creators can teach each other things, But l am not a teach, l can tell some thing but l am still learning.
  • Temple of Our Lady of the Moon

    I hear ya Fantasy! Im all thumbs one spruz. I cant line up some html so it goes in a row across instead of down and I cant add pics from my puter. keeps saying its a wrong file code or something.
  • Friends of Angela Lansbury - Bet

    Seems spruz.com likes .jpg photo files.
  • Magic Happens

    You look up top of the of the box where the little toolbar is, there it gives you option as to how to load images. From your computer, just click on the Send To Server and wait, it will go right in there nice and you can size it also.

    And the good news here is help fromeveryone-http://my.spruz.com/

    l am not trying to sell you on this site, l am here to give a litle of want knowledge l am learning. And remember the feedback to them may help us get what we had here on ning.

    But do not leave this minute, wait to hear what ning has to say. People are putting ning down because of the way we recieved the news, but l was was told it was leaked out before ning could come up with the right announcement to all the creators. So wait to hear what is going on.

    But keep testing the sites out. We had to learn here and we can learn other places too.
  • Magic Happens

    That is the same here. have a back up and wait.
  • Friends of Angela Lansbury - Bet

    Good Idea All About.
  • AddMe2

    i just found www.flux.com. i dont know anything about it but i registered now and it looks pretty good

    maybe some of you willl like it
  • R3TRO

  • Friends of Angela Lansbury - Bet

    Interesting video, R3TRO.
  • Friends of Angela Lansbury - Bet

    I will definately like that instant support chat.
  • Friends of Angela Lansbury - Bet

    I know try to add a chatroom on oursocial and you have to have a premium account.
  • Friends of Angela Lansbury - Bet

    Yes and they don't allow free counts to have one.
  • Magic Happens

    Ning is good on this creativity, but with feedback on the other social network, we can build another site in time better may be even then ning.
    And ning was not always like it is today, it was the people that understand codes that build ning up.

    So we can do this on other sites as well. But either way, l am hanging in there to see what ning has to say. Ning is not going to pull the plug as soon as they announce their plans, we have every bit is not a little more of ten weeks to move if that is what we want to do. Just look around and have a back up. But also remember the members will move with you but not every few weeks or so.

    We as creators and members need to learn all over again but we can !
  • TheSoulProprietor

    Great Video R3TRO! I am also worried about all this jumping around, every few months, by Ning. Makes me very figgity about putting a lot of time into anything of value. Makes you wonder, are they trying to get rid of their free accounts, or their premium accounts, or both? There actions don't seem to make much sense!
  • The Pagan Umbrella

    I have been watching all of the activity since word that ning would be phasing us out. I have added some of my own thoughts. Now I will add another. There are alot of free hosts out there and true they aren't like ning and the set ups are different, but they are still free and at this point, will stay that way.
    I my self have taken the Umbrella over to spruz and changed the name to fit what the Umbrella has come to truly be about.
    It took some work and a lot of time, but I was sucsessful in getting things done.
    Here's the thing folks, you have a choice, find somewhere else to go and make due, shut down your community altogether, or pay the BLACKMAIL money to stay on ning.
    I chose not to pay or to close my community down. I chose to move, make the best of it and make my community better than it ever was.