Ning is a free online application platform that allows users to build social networks and websites for public or private use. Ning allows the user to choose a combination of features to create a customized social network including blogs, discussion forums, photo sharing, polling, RSS feeds, member profile pages, and more. It also allows integration with Internet applications such as email, MySpace, Facebook, and You Tube.
The ability to poll can give the administrator of the site an insite of what his students or peers think or understand about a particular subject. The administrator can compile applicable videos from You Tube to show to a group or allow members of the group to post assigned videos. The same can be done with photo sharing. The use of MySpace or Facebook allows for easy distribution of information and media, easy posting of activities, and promotes communication and community among a group.
Ning is an all-encompassing social networking site that I see having a bright future. The most impressive thing to me is how this application as well as many others that I've learned about through Library2Play, is that no programming experience is needed to make things happen. I'd put myself in the average group for understanding technology, but the numerous applications that I've played with these last few weeks have posed to be quite easy to do.
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