Rounded Corners for GeekSouth
Besides someone’s half-serious comment about web2.0 meaning graphics have rounded corners, there really is a lot to Web2.0 that of all groups, GeekSouth could and should really be taking advantage of. I didn’t really become aware of how easily this could be accomplished until I whipped up a class reunion site on ning.com. From the beginning, I have advocated having what amounts to members profiles on GeekSouth, so that the site could become a clearing house for someone looking for a Geek. While ning seems to be more oriented to the facebook crowd, it still is way better than what we have going.
As I write this, I see Austin (as usual) is way ahead of me, having already created http://geeksouth.ning.com
Not meaning to steal your thunder, Austin, I’m all for it! I just logged in and started setting up my profile, and started a discussion forum on what GeekSouth IS/Could/Should BE. I’d suggest members go there and create a profile and we can play with the format and if we like it better, switch to it!
No problem at all.
I’d actually setup that network quite a while ago to play around with Ning. I like it, but have a few issues with it in regards to GeekSouth.
1. You have to pay $4.95 a month to use it to host your own domain.
2. You have to pay yet more ($19.95) to get rid of the Google Ads that Ning puts on your site.
3. So far I haven’t found a way to import all of the content that we already have here. Maybe that shouldn’t be big deal, but I really like having the history. That being said, I haven’t dug into it really deep yet…. there may be a way to do this.
So, we are going to be almost $25 a month to host the site. Unless we don’t care about ads which leaves us at around $5.
But I’m up to discuss it more. I’d like to setup a separate meeting sometime at the end of summer for us all to gather around and really hammer out what we want to do.