June 22, 2010

Beloved guerrila gardner..

The Richard Pirko Memorial sundial progresses under dancing garlic blooms planted by Richard years ago.    See more pictures HERE of it in progress


Some info here

June 18, 2010

Alternatives to Ninging

farewell my little ning:

Here's the best 3 webpages of lists of the best alternatives to NING, there's some overlap:

9 Free alternatives with Welcoming messages from each. The WEBS.com seems to be a good choice - I've had a webs.com for several years and it's the most friendly thing I've used in a long time - also can access and view anywhere, including public/library computers that block "social networking sites."
Their Welcome message here: but as they say "Unfortunately ... you will need to rebuild the basic features of your site. However the benefit of going with Webs is that once you export your network members to a CSV file you can easily send them an automated invitation to the new Webs site using our Email Blast tool."

And SPRUZ.com does have a NING Migration tool, it sez, and does have high ratings. Second Welcome for ex-Ningers

OK - I just looked and here's a nice example of an artists group using Spruz.com. Videos aren't allowed in the free version.

16 alternatives with pros and cons

Discussion of Alternative Solutions to Ning with pro and con Comments on them

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