Shared Chapter Website Platform?

[Guest guest]

For those who are aware of Ning, they announced a large (20%) price increase

today for their cheapest plan. This price gouging is happening less than a year

after they dropped their free plans.

I'd like to find out if there's been any discussion regarding a shared platform

for LPA Chapter websites. I know that some chapters are using Facebook, but this

ties the chapter to Facebook's platform which is limited. Some chapters were/are

using Ning and a portion of these chapters dropped their sites after Ning

changed to a paid model.

It seems that it would be worthwhile for the National office to officially

sponsor a shared platform to be used by all the chapters. It's not very cost

effective for each chapter to be paying for their own membership to Ning, etc,

or paying for domain registration, hosting packages, etc.

I'd love to hear any feedback.

-Ellen

P.S. Adelaide, I'm posting this for my husband.

[Guest guest]

A great discussion topic for the Chapter Presidents meeting in Anaheim. I

thought Ning was a good option until they started charging- plus when they did

that there was not cross over between networks.

>

> For those who are aware of Ning, they announced a large (20%) price increase

today for their cheapest plan. This price gouging is happening less than a year

after they dropped their free plans.

>

> I'd like to find out if there's been any discussion regarding a shared

platform for LPA Chapter websites. I know that some chapters are using Facebook,

but this ties the chapter to Facebook's platform which is limited. Some chapters

were/are using Ning and a portion of these chapters dropped their sites after

Ning changed to a paid model.

>

> It seems that it would be worthwhile for the National office to officially

sponsor a shared platform to be used by all the chapters. It's not very cost

effective for each chapter to be paying for their own membership to Ning, etc,

or paying for domain registration, hosting packages, etc.

>

> I'd love to hear any feedback.

>

> -Ellen

>

> P.S. Adelaide, I'm posting this for my husband.

>

[Guest guest]

Not too active in my chapter but last time I went to a meeting the big debate

was which covered dish do I bring

On Jun 26, 2011, at 6:44 PM, alourash wrote:

> A great discussion topic for the Chapter Presidents meeting in Anaheim. I

thought Ning was a good option until they started charging- plus when they did

that there was not cross over between networks.

>

>

> >

> > For those who are aware of Ning, they announced a large (20%) price increase

today for their cheapest plan. This price gouging is happening less than a year

after they dropped their free plans.

> >

> > I'd like to find out if there's been any discussion regarding a shared

platform for LPA Chapter websites. I know that some chapters are using Facebook,

but this ties the chapter to Facebook's platform which is limited. Some chapters

were/are using Ning and a portion of these chapters dropped their sites after

Ning changed to a paid model.

> >

> > It seems that it would be worthwhile for the National office to officially

sponsor a shared platform to be used by all the chapters. It's not very cost

effective for each chapter to be paying for their own membership to Ning, etc,

or paying for domain registration, hosting packages, etc.

> >

> > I'd love to hear any feedback.

> >

> > -Ellen

> >

> > P.S. Adelaide, I'm posting this for my husband.

> >

>

>

Tony Soares

tonysoares.com