Ning Update: Rolling Out Full Details May 4th

[Jason Rosenthal]

Hi Everyone,

As many of you know, we made a decision yesterday to focus 100% of the company on enhancing the features and services we offer to paying Ning Creators. The tens of thousands of you who already use our paid
service represent over 75% of our traffic, and we’ve heard repeatedly
from you ways that we can deliver a killer service to help make your
Ning Network more effective. Some examples of things we are working on
that you’ve asked for include new APIs, a new mobile experience and new
advertising and revenue opportunities.

As part of this change, we’ll be phasing out our free service.  On May 4, 2010, we will share with you all of the details of our new offering, including features and price points, through a series of blog
posts, emails, and conference calls. We recognize that there are many
active Ning Networks for teachers, small non-profits, and individuals
and it's our goal to have a set of product and pricing options that will
make sense for all of them. For Ning Creators using our free service who
choose to move to another service, we will offer a migration path and
time to make that change. We will still continue to allow free trials
and test networks on the Ning Platform.

We look forward to talking to you further on May 4th.

[Eric Suesz]

Hey, Eli! You may want to read up a bit more on this on our News & Views About Change page, where we have a little bit of additional info and will keep people updated.

You may also want to check out yesterday's Ning Blog post: MythBusters: 3 Things We Aren't Doing on May 4: “Rumor: This change means teachers and non-profits won’t be able to continue to use Ning.” FALSE. As Jason mentioned in his blog post last week, it’s our goal to have a set of product and pricing options that will make sense for all Ning Networks — even those that have limited budgets. Specifically, we know how many non-profit organizations and educators use Ning, and we plan on offering an option that will make it possible and attractive for them to stay on the Ning Platform.

[Eli Vieira]

Yes Mr. Suesz, I have already read all that. And all that does not change my opinion, for there is no place where is stated that educational networks will be able to continue using the service for free.

But as I said before, I submit to the new rules whatever they be.

Doesn't change the fact that, as we say here in Brazil, Ning has throw a bucketful of cold water upon educators by saying we have to pay or we leave in 10 weeks.

[Star-Dust]

This is what l have read also, please read it.