Gender

Male

Location

Nelson, BC

Birthday:

May 30

What's your role? Network Creator (NC) or Admin?

Djemini Network Creator and CEO of Djemini Studios

Tell us a bit about your network (example: Creators is a community of Ning Network Creators who gather together to collaborate, troubleshoot, and share tips and tricks)

The Djemini Network is an effort to provide a social networking alternative to my local community, and to house the number of projects, artists and small businesses we aim to promote. Many years ago, when Facebook was just coming out of the collages and universities, I fought tooth and nail to establish NING as the idea direction for social networking in the world, and worked with network creator, Randy McCalum on a NING based network entitled "Greater Trail"

I consider major social media websites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and the like to be the "big box store" version of social technology that was created to level the playing field between massive monoplies, and smaller, family owned businesses and artists. I can only imagine how much different the world might have gone if NING and other de-centralized social networking site had been given the chance to provide social technologies to the world. And obviously, I've not given up on the dream, and likely never will.

To see the network I've been working on over the last 5 years or so, please visit it here, and feel free to check out the customization I've built into it, including a custom launcher included on most community pages, a custom splash page for greeting new visitors, and using basic HTML to add additional functionality for the less experienced internet users -> Visit the Djemini Network to learn more