Geek Force Five Social Network

PHOTO: PodCamp Boston 3: Chris Clark by Steve Garfield, on Flickr CC BY-NC-SA

Shortly after fellow PodCamp Boston 3 attendee Steve Garfield shot the picture I’ve included above, he, along with John Herman, Leslie Poston, and a couple of others, convinced me that I needed to build a social network for Geek Force Five right away. They suggested Ning.com, which John and Leslie promised me would take literally two minutes to set up. And, since this whole site began with a social discussion on who each member of the community would include in their own personal Geek Force Five, I figured, “Why not?”

Thus, Geek Force Five on Ning was born.

If I’ve read correctly, a Facebook application may be possible using Ning, as well. And this is just the quick and dirty beginning. I have great plans for how to get the community more involved here at Geek Force Five, and I hope you’ll all stick around to see how those plans develop. Here’s a hint of what’s to come: Picture MTV Celebrity Deathmatch-style confrontations between each community member’s teams, maybe even in a March Madness-style bracket. Cool, right? I think so.

In the meantime, please consider signing up for the Ning site and answering (or re-answering) the question, “Who’s in your Geek Force Five?”

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