Happy Holiday!
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Jamroom - in the flesh and blood
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Sounds like what I'm going to try to do with a room full of 60+ year old members of my Lodge when we move all the Lodge communication / administration to a web based JR site.
The first thing I'm going to do is get the room excited showing everyone what can be done with the new system.
Then I'm going to break key aspects of the site into session blocks. Each session is going to go in-depth into 1 specific thing. I'll assign a task related to the session topic at the end of the session for each member to complete.
Each new session is going to start with a rehash of the older sessions.
Added: creating a training site is also helpful. Let people know that the purpose of the training site is to learn, breaking things is encouraged.
In the end, personal interaction with the site is the best education IMO.
updated by @jimmy: 10/14/16 05:45:15PM
Latest updates to Jamroom Core 6.0.0b1
I'll be back up and running at the end of next week, so I can start testing stuff out.
Ning Endangered?
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After reading up on Ning, I ask myself why Marc Andreessen is still Chairman of Ning? Besides being the founder of Ning, I have no idea why he remains the chairman of a network with only 90K customers. IMO it's really below him to be the Chairman - he's one of the top VCs in SV.
My best guess is that Facebook is going to start buying social networks in the future. MA is on the Facebook board and was very influential basically a mentor to Zuck. Maybe FB has something in the plans for the future to go up against Wordpress??? - a standalone Facebook platform for sites??? MA might be hoping for Ning to be bought from Mode Media who is the current owner of Ning. Though to get purchased you need to show some profit to establish a valuation. Cutting overhead (employees) and charging is one way to do that.
Ning Endangered?
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I follow that stuff pretty closely. Right now, there isn't any interest by the major venture capitalists firms in funding social network startups. Of course, most of those investors are invested in FB.
Most of the smaller investors listen to the larger investors and at this time, social networks - as far a new startups - aren't going to get any major funding. It's almost like a big joke right now.
A good idea is a good idea though. Money is always there for a good idea. Not sure the next Facebook sized social network idea has been thought of yet.
Ning Endangered?
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@michael there will always be alternative social networks, I totally agree with that!
My last post was more focused on venture capitalists and startups. Not many of those aforementioned are interested in funding / starting social networks.
startups - because there is no funding.
venture capitalists - aren't funding because they see FB as a beast that can't currently be beat... which is pretty much true and there isn't enough profit in niche sites.
Ning Endangered?
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Posterous was acquired by Twitter who proceeded to shut it down.
I found it interesting that for the first time in Y Combinator's history there wasn't a single social network site funded. Facebook is so huge that most startups are moving away from social network startups.
Nice to see JR filling the gap helping Ning users migrate.
Investors really want to see independent social networks die IMO. Having everyone on Facebook is very profitable for investors. Considering that the creator and CEO of Ning is Marc Andreessen he is also on the Facebook Board of Directors and an initial investor, expect Ning to die sooner than later.
Centminmod Showcase
There is a new "Showcase" area on the Centminmod Forum.
https://community.centminmod.com/showcase/
Not sure if the JR team wanted to setup a demo site on Digital Ocean running Centminmod and Jamroom. Might give Jamroom some exposure to people who are using Nginx.
I have the working Nginx conf file for Jamroom which works great (thanks to the help of @Brian).
It would be great to show people that there are several options with Jamroom - self hosting on Apache or Nginx and JR managed hosting. Added, it would allow the JR team to play around with Jamroom on Nginx.
Just making the suggestion... might get some more Nginx people interested in trying out Jamroom - which could lead to more technically oriented members joining the Jamroom community.
