<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/57798e34-2876-4fce-868b-5f0758e5c88b/5DB849C5-2D03-446E-8F42-475138B0F7E1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.robbmontgomery.com/home/2008/newspaper/design/01/ning-is-now-the-thing-for-building-online-communities/" href="http://www.robbmontgomery.com/home/2008/newspaper/design/01/ning-is-now-the-thing-for-building-online-communities/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.robbmontgomery.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.robbmontgomery.com/home/2008/newspaper/design/01/ning-is-now-the-thing-for-building-online-communities/"><H3 class="entry-title"><A title="Permanent Link to "“Ning” is now the thing for building online communities"" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.robbmontgomery.com/home/2008/newspaper/design/01/ning-is-now-the-thing-for-building-online-communities/">“Ning” is now the thing for building online communities</A></H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.robbmontgomery.com/home/2008/newspaper/design/01/ning-is-now-the-thing-for-building-online-communities/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.robbmontgomery.com/img/4C8C554C-CAE3-45C2-9543-9FF8D998ADAA" alt="ning thing" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.robbmontgomery.com/home/2008/newspaper/design/01/ning-is-now-the-thing-for-building-online-communities/"><P>I would compare the Ning solution to giving away an “Instant interactive community” platform as good as any Apple-design approach to a product. Which is to take something that is already out there and make it 10 times better.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.robbmontgomery.com/home/2008/newspaper/design/01/ning-is-now-the-thing-for-building-online-communities/"><OL> 1) Put the user experience first 2) Make it so you don’t have to know any programming code 3) Above all make the time spent with the product a thrill </OL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.robbmontgomery.com/home/2008/newspaper/design/01/ning-is-now-the-thing-for-building-online-communities/"><P>I have launched a few of these for Ning social network sites for clients over the last couple of months and I have to tell you - it’s drop dead easy to do. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5DB849C5-2D03-446E-8F42-475138B0F7E1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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