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Steve Hargadon replied to the discussion New NECC Conference Social Network About to Go Live May 14

Garin Hess replied to the discussion New NECC Conference Social Network About to Go Live May 14

Welcome

Welcome, any early arrivers! This will be the Ning-sponsored site for building Ning social networks for conferences. We'll try to keep a list of them as well, so you can look to other people's work for inspiration.

Test: to see if you can create groups, but not have them be user-"creatable" and to only show from a link: http://conferences.ning.com/group/test

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New NECC Conference Social Network About to Go Live
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www.necc2008.org. Let me know what you think. I did some custom work on the colors and header to match the actual conference site.

Started by Steve Hargadon. Last reply by Steve Hargadon May 14.

Using Groups in Ning

Does anyone have any comments on the usefulness or lack of usefulness of Groups in a Ning conference website? It seems like a group is somewhat similar to a forum discussion around a specific confe... Continue

Tagged: groups

Started by Garin Hess May 14

Crowdvine vs Ning

Has anyone else compared Ning to Crowdvine? I generally like Ning better, but the one feature that Crowdvine has that is very compelling is the profile answers are tagged, so it creates a tag cloud... Continue

Tagged: crowdvine, tags, maps

Started by Garin Hess May 14

Sessions Forum

Example of Second Forum for Conference Sessions

OK, it worked!

Started by Steve Hargadon Jan 3

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Extending Conferences -- Thoughts from behind the Steering Wheel

An Excerpt from a blog I posted on 2¢ Worth this morning.

So I caught up with some podcasts that had been sitting for weeks in my phone. The one that got me thinking the most was an EdTechTalk show, I think it was 21st Century Learning #7. They were talking about how to expand conferences using Web 2.0. In their case it was NYCIST, the New York independent schools techn… Continue

Posted by David Warlick on October 5th, 2007 at 5:07am — No Comments (Add)