Free fully featured social networking environments right out of the box. NING.com is one hot property in education at the moment. Quite the buzz. Here’s some background:

• Ning – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Background info on Ning. Good starting place to get the backstory of NING. (Isn’t it what we all say? Use Wikipedia to develop your concept, but don’t depend on it as a sole source! (Triangulate that data! (tags: ning collaboration social-networks socialnetworking)
• TechCrunch White Label Social Networking Platforms Chart soical networking apps showing Ning with a huge lead over other social networking applications. (tags: ning social-networks socialnetworking web2.0)
• Nine Ways to Build Your Own Social Network July 2007 blog overview of social networking applications (tags: ning socialnetworking social-networks web2.0)
• Ning In Full Februray 2007 blog posted as the “new ning” was relaunched. (tags: ning socialnetworking web2.0 social-networks)
• Ning Blog A way to view a variety of new NINGs and keep up in the turbo dweeb race to understand & use social networking tools. (tags: ning socialnetworking social-networks)