P.S. At the last minute, NING extended the deadline for choosing a pay option, so Second Life Librarians will be up until August 30!

I initially sent the following note to Jim Milles, the Network Creator of Second Life Librarians--who replied:

Of course, Valerie, please do. Thanks



Jim:



As you may or may not know, Ning is moving to paid Ning Networks only. There is a free option for educational groups, but it can have no more than 150 members - see… Continue

As you know, those with unsolicited purchasing advice (!) have hit Ning hard -- and if you follow this group by RSS, you know that we've not been spared. In just the last few days, we grew by nearly two hundred members -- who all proceeded to flood the group with their full-color unsolicited purchasing advice. After suspending the membership of these dozens and dozens of… Continue

If you have any questions or suggestions (or complaints...), please do not hesitate to contact me!
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Hello, ALALibraryVal Miles here. I offered to help the group's creator, Jim Milles, administer this group, mostly to get rid of the spam and spammers that had begun to fill the space. So Jim took me up on my offer (!) and I proceeded to delete the spam about sizes of zoot suits and other things, and I banned the "members" who had contributed such junk.



And then... Well, I had more ideas. I added three RSS feeds to the front page -- well, actually these three feeds are aggregate feeds… Continue

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