Hello everyone,
Here's a bit of information on the cleanup and improvement process here on our online social. First of all, some groups are gone! I am sorry if I axed one of the groups that you had created, or been a member of, but it seemed like most activity centered around the main forums instead of groups. So, in order to keep things a bit neat, I removed all groups, except for the ones that deal with administrative news, procedures and issues.
In the future, as our network evolves, we can revisit the issue of groups as a place for SIGs (special interest groups) to congregate and talk about something specific.
As far as improvements go, there are now two new ways of logging in! I've created a connector for LinkedIn and a Windows Live. This means that if you have a Windows Live account (aka a "hotmail" email address) or a profile on LinkedIn, you can connect those to your account here! What's the benefit? Well, if you forget your Ning password, or if you change email addresses and can no longer log on, or...just experience general log-on weirdness - you always have a back door to enter! I personally have my Yahoo, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts tied to my login here, so in case I forget what my password is, I can always log in.
More updates and cleanup to come over the summer :-)
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Thanks for the encouragement Jesse :-)
Unfortunately Ning doesn't have a setting to suppress posts older than a certain date. That would be a cool feature. The one problem with our site is that while we've had it for a number of years now, it hasn't been actively promoted and used. I think that once we get started and using the system more regularly (both students and staffers like me), older posts will be buried under new ones, so we (hopefully) won't have as many ghost posts lingering around masquerading as something new ;-)