Hello John: Thank You for writing. I am a member of LinkedIN, and read Thomas Powers blog. I am pretty active on ecademy and have heard rumors that they are selling ecademy, that was about 2 months ago, so not sure how true it is. I live 35 miles West of Washington DC, so I am going to write to Penny, and see if they are heading my way in their RV, would like to meet them. I will keep researching Virtual communities until I feel a know what is going on. Regards, Jess =========================== ----- Original Message ---- From: John Veitch <jsveitch@ate.co.nz> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 4:03:17 AM Subject: Re: [Air-l] Ecademy-----Social/business Network Hello Jess Some of us have a lot of experience on many social networks. I think the general opinion is that both Ryze and Ecademy which were both early leaders in the field have lost their leadership. In the case of Ryze, the management were far too inactive for a long time. They that made a sudden change in exactly the wrong direction and they lost a large part of their most experienced network leaders. Ryze is making a slow comeback, no fuss, no big campaign, just regular small improvements. In the case of Ecademy, there was an urge to take over the world. A world tour by Thomas Power. Association with the XL Corporation. The campaign the turned LinkedIn "Blue". And the campaign to make every member of Ecademy a paying member. Many are saying this was caused by the fact that Mr and Mrs Powers believe in the "Law of Attraction". Anyhow the thinking became both hard-nosed about money and airy-fairy about how the world worked. Ecademy shot itself. For your entertainment read this. (You need to be a member of LinkedIn) http://www.linkedin.com/answers?viewQuestion=&questionID=6001&askerID=9635&g... If you need to join LinkedIn, I suggest you begin here. http://www.ate.co.nz/ Regards John Jess Porter wrote:

I am the leader of the Virtual communities Club on Ecademy. I was wondering, if anyone or two would be interested in speaking in my club forum. I can give membership for this purpose to anyone interested.

A couple topics of Interest would be a comparison between ecademy and some of the other business clubs, like LinkedIN, or OpenBC, etc. Or a talk about how people's social lives are being changed by the Internet.

John Stephen Veitch http://www.ate.co.nz Should we be talking? Can I help? Google me _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/