Question about Ning, displaced pets, and hurricane Gustav

Here is a site already on Ning - saw it on Twitter.

Gustav Information Center

Tom

Dana,

I like the idea, but is ning your best option? Ning is to build a social networking community and while the idea is very noble I don't know understand why people would sign up as a member, besides having the moral support of the members.

I think a straight information site with RSS feeds would do just fine, maybe a wordpress syndicated site, you can utilize the Revolution Theme and post videos, and have multiple featured sections.

The mid features could be of sheltered homes, and the left side features could be articles on people that lost pets... You can post video's of videos of pet's sitting on a house while the flood is around them, i remember seeing videos like this one after Katrina.


In conclusion, I think ning is not your solution, you can make wordpress a social type site with Wordpress MU, maybe you can create more of a "lost pet" directory and start the promotion targeting those of hurricane losses, hurricanes only effect us two months of the year, but if you target the general lost pet industry or even the "storm lost pets" you can take on Tornados, hurricanes, Tusnami's, etc

With Wordpress MU, each individual can have there own "Lost a Pet" page where they can post a picture of their lost pet and talk about their pet... etc.