Blog: Dan Power

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Social Networking and Decision Support

As part of my Iowa Metaverse project (IowaMetaverse.com), I created a Ning. Ning is a Web 2.0 tool for creating "your own social network for anything". Supposedly Ning was a made-up word that does mean "peace" in Mandarin Chinese. Some of the Web 2.0 crowd talk about "ning ing" too.

The website was very easy to set up using the templates and so far it is free and advertising supported. So I had no costs to set up the network other than my time. The URL is IowaMetaverse.ning.com . The Iowametaverse ning includes photos, discussion board, hopefully videos, mashups ...

If you are an Iowan, a friend of an Iowan or former Iowan and are in Second Life or want to be, join my Ning. It is open for viewing.

Will the Ning (http://www.ning.com/)help in making decisions and building the Second Life Iowa community? I think so. More later as the experiment continues.

I will be traveling to Paris and Toulouse starting Saturday, June 28. My plan is a quick stop in Paris to see Tour Eiffel then fly to Toulouse to attend the IFIP working group 8.3 decision support systems conference. Check www.irit.fr/CDM08. I should be back in Cedar Falls by July 7, 2008.

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