Saturday, April 17, 2010

Re: Ning no longer free

If you use it, why not pay?

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 16, 2010, at 11:02 AM, "Clum, Garry" <gclum@spa.edu> wrote:

> Just an FYI
>
> One month after long-time Ning CEO Gina Bianchini was replaced by =20
> COO Jason Rosenthal , the company is making some major changes: It =20
> has just announced that it is killing off its free product, forcing =20=

> existing free networks to either make the change to premium accounts =20=

> or migrate their networks elsewhere. Rosenthal has also just =20
> announced that the company has cut nearly 70 people =E2=80=94 over =
40% of i=20
> ts staff. Here=E2=80=99s the email Rosenthal just sent out to the =
company:
>
> =
http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/15/nings-bubble-bursts-no-more-free-networks=
-cuts-40-of-staff/#comment-1030783

>
> So the question is, do you pay for a premium account or use a =20
> different tool.
>
>
> Garry Clum Jr
> Network Manager
>
> St. Paul Academy and Summit School
> 1712 Randolph Avenue
> St. Paul, MN 55105
> 651-696-1497
> gclum@spa.edu
> www.spa.edu
>
> =EF=81=90 Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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