I wrote an article titled “Open Letter to NING CEO, Jason Rosenthal:: The Ghosts of NING Past, Present, and Future” on the Virtual Organization Management Institute blog at http://www.virtualorganization.net which goes into more detail about the TITANIUM SCREW I am referring to.

As well, next week, I am posting a very detailed article on the “FREE” fallacy that the general public has been bombarded with.

Emil Sarnogoev of WackWall.com is a genius–although he doesn't know it yet–and his approach to the NING debacle is spot on…the FREEDOM concept is very ingenious and should be the model by which all other “so-called FREE” social network providers abide by. Before you make any investment into one of these FREE social network providers, that provider has a DUTY and RESPONSIBILITY to allow you to take all your stuff with you wherever you want to go without being faced with only one option: Succumb to whatever it is that they decide to impose on you or just watch all your investment in time and effort [[on their behalf]] as well as on your own network go down the drain in a split second.

I was so impressed by his logic that I went to OpenWack, the open source developer of the software that powers WackWall, and made a $10 Paypal donation and I am going to recommend his company in my article to all 300,000 members of my networks and that they make a donation as well, whether it's a $1 or whatever it is that they can afford.

By the way, I just came across WackWall by accident while I was on SPRUZ.com, an alternative to NING, and noticed a blog reference to wackwall. I almost started to ignore it, thinking I wouldn't want to have the word “wack” in my address….seems a bit wacky…however, the minute I got to the site, I fell in love with it, etc…. In other words, prior to today, I do not and have never had any sort of direct or indirect relationship or association with Emil or any of his companies.

I only believe in rewarding good behavior and WackWall's business model and philosophy meets that treshold.

Prof. Pierre Coupet
Virtual Organization Management Institute

I just wish that NING had come out and say that they were under severe financial stress and would probably have to lay off about 50 people who would no longer have a job and that the “so-called FREE” members could make a contribution via a small Paypal donation at anytime in order to keep them on board working hard and continuing to provide outstanding support to ALL the members.

Knowing the American people as well as I do, I can bet my last dollar that the outpouring of support to NING would be overwhelming. I would have contributed and so would millions of others, including premium customers who could afford to do so. The bottom line is: there is more than one way to skin a cat and there are plenty of ways to generate “additional” revenues from the so-called FREE customers.

People, for the most part, are generally good and very sensible instead of a bunch of “cheap, whining, and irresponsible freeloaders” that they are being portrayed as and which is so much farther away from the truth. Next week's article will make my case.

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