Last night I invited all current level 0, 1, 2 and 3 students to join the new "Social Engineering" Network. I also notified members of eg-353.ning.com that that site would be wound down when the Ning charging scheme comes into force on June 14.
I am tracking and seeing steady growth in the membership of Engineering Social, but it's not as fast as it was for Ning. Maybe Ning is more compelling "out of the box" than Elgg is. Perhaps there's a lesson there.
To encourage community building, I have just created groups for each of the undergraduate disciplines on the new Engineering Social network. I hope to be able to promote at least one member of each of these disciplines to "community leader" in time for the new academic year.
