Interview with Gina Bianchini from Ning

From www.SteveHargadon.com

Gina Bianchini is the co-founder and CEO of Ning, the "do-it-yourself" social networking site. Gina is no ivory-tower entrepreneur--she is an active participant herself in several Ning networks, and she demonstrates her passion (and her hands-on style) in this fun interview. We talk about the original vision for Ning, some of the ways that Ning is being used by different groups, and what features are coming down the road. It's the future features Gina describes that will get current Ning users excited.

http://www.edtechlive.com/audio/Gina.mp3

New Ning v2 site themes in action

Video Demo of Ning Version 2

Adding Photos and Videos Direct From Your Phone

It's easy to add photos and video to our sites that you have taken with your mobile phone. If your phone supports photos and/or video and has email capabilities (this is true of many new 3g handsets) you're all set!

You will need to login to your account (use the 'sign in' link at the top right corner of any SoccerLink2U site), then go to either the photo or video tab. Here you will find your account's unique email address (just click the 'Use this unique email' link):



Now when you are out and about you can add your soccer pics or video to the site almost instantly.

Rich html posts on SoccerLink2U

Did you know you can use HTML in your forum, blog and chatterwall posts and comments on the soccerlink2U.com sites?

You can add an image by using an 'img' tag like this:


Text and images can be made into links by surrounding the image or text in 'a' tags like this:



Text can be made large using 'h' tags:


Text can be made bold or italic using 'i' and 'b' tags:


Video from sites like SoccerLink2U Videos, YouTube, MetaCafe etc... can be added by copying the 'embed' code that these sites provide for their videos:


You can add slideshows of your photos from the SoccerLink2U Profile or Photo sites using the 'embed' code given there.


Finally lists can be added by using 'ul' and 'li' tags like this:


more basic HTML info at w3.org:
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/

Note that to enter any html in blog posts you must press the html button on the post editor.

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First Post

Welcome to our new blog !

This is the place to come to find out the latest news on the development of SoccerLink2U.com and related websites.

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