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Create Your Own Web 2.0 Social Networking Site
Posted 25th August 2008 at 11:00 AM by X
I've been searching for a membership site platform that does some very specific things for nearly six months. In particular, based on a site that I found (and my wife joined) at Juice Feasting > Home
(Notice how freakin' healthy everyone on that site looks and tell me that raw food isn't what was meant for the human body.)
What I especially like is that members can post videos, pictures, create their own blog, etc. I've looked at a number of solutions and I was ready to commit $500 (and that was a friendly discount) plus about $70 per month for hosting.
Fortunately (or unfortunately, maybe) my friend said they'd been having issues with the membership platform (sounded like a server issue) and he didn't recommend using it at this time ...
Temporary setback that seemed like a major wrench in my plans.
After 2 weeks of procrastination I sat down and spent a few hours looking at solution after solution until I finally found what I was looking for - and it's free. Well, it could be. If you want to remove their ads, increase bandwidth usage, use your own domain name and remove their site branding, then that comes to about $40 per month, per site - but it's all hosted by them, software automatically updated - it's a beautiful solution.
What's crazy is that after asking a number of people what the Juice Feasting site is using as it's *very cool* platform (and not get a correct answer) ... it's this service. Which I only discovered after creating an account, logging in and having the system tell me which networks I was already a part of - my own and Juice Feasting!
So the solution here is called Ning - ning.com to be specific. You can setup your own niche Web 2.0 social community complete with member blogs, forums, event calendars and a ton of other good stuff.
Really, this shouldn't be a free blog post.
I should package this up into a little PDF report and charge you $17 on the WSO.
Thank me.
X
(Notice how freakin' healthy everyone on that site looks and tell me that raw food isn't what was meant for the human body.)
What I especially like is that members can post videos, pictures, create their own blog, etc. I've looked at a number of solutions and I was ready to commit $500 (and that was a friendly discount) plus about $70 per month for hosting.
Fortunately (or unfortunately, maybe) my friend said they'd been having issues with the membership platform (sounded like a server issue) and he didn't recommend using it at this time ...
Temporary setback that seemed like a major wrench in my plans.
After 2 weeks of procrastination I sat down and spent a few hours looking at solution after solution until I finally found what I was looking for - and it's free. Well, it could be. If you want to remove their ads, increase bandwidth usage, use your own domain name and remove their site branding, then that comes to about $40 per month, per site - but it's all hosted by them, software automatically updated - it's a beautiful solution.
What's crazy is that after asking a number of people what the Juice Feasting site is using as it's *very cool* platform (and not get a correct answer) ... it's this service. Which I only discovered after creating an account, logging in and having the system tell me which networks I was already a part of - my own and Juice Feasting!
So the solution here is called Ning - ning.com to be specific. You can setup your own niche Web 2.0 social community complete with member blogs, forums, event calendars and a ton of other good stuff.
Really, this shouldn't be a free blog post.
I should package this up into a little PDF report and charge you $17 on the WSO.
Thank me.
X
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I was looking at Ning the other day, and wondered if you could use it for a paid membership site. I didn't spend much time looking, but hadn't seen how to set a ning site up as a paid site. Now that I've seen it done, I'll have to poke around some more.
Thanks for not charging $17 for this.Posted 25th August 2008 at 07:35 PM by Dan Sherman
- Anyone with a similar interest might also look into something I uncovered for myself earlier today....CommunityServer.orgPosted 26th August 2008 at 10:25 AM by Fiftysumthin
