You might have noticed that we have added some
paid area's where you can
add your commercial messages or
Jobs as a sponsor to the
ON.
We foremost aim to increase the quality of the ON discussions on
the forum and other open areas. Already we can see the difference.
Naturally it will also add a modest income to our funds so that we
can keep testing and making the OpenSource networking tools for the
benefit of all users.
So what does that mean to you if you want to promote your
business?
1) Become
a
sponsor
2) Add your
own Group,
it is free. It will generate it's own area to add your
commercial messages, it's own discussion forum and even RSS reader.
Naturally you need and you Can invite your network to your Group to
make it effective for you.
This way you still have a free way of promoting your messages,
images and commercial discussions without bothering everyone, just
your targeted Group audience.
Measures
We will remove commercial and non-appropriate material asap. We ask
you to help us guard the quality by
notifying the management if you
come across such material in discussion, photo's, video's or even
as a 'comment' to your profile. If someone is doing this too often
he/she risks to be banned from the ON.
Thank you for your help,
Ray van den Bel
Chairman OpenNetworkers.info
Your commercial considerations
Is advertizing on the ON worth it? In order to ask yourself that
question, first realize that the ON is a decentralized network.
There might only be a few thousand members here (on Ning), but we
have more than 50 Groups and hundreds of blogs linking in, using
the same widgets and RSS feeds.
Furthermore the Jobboard (blue widget on your right) gets
republished on dozens of popular portals and websites such as
LinkedIn, Myspace, Facebook, you name it, reaching hunderds of
millions of people.
If you want to get some insight of this Ning-site performance,
which all by itself is also a Top-performer, do have a closer look
at these widgets: