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Holger mentioned three kinds of trust:
1) <i>affect-based</i> – "influenced by the first visual expression we have, plus the additional information we get from our other senses" (¶2);
2) <i>cognition-based</i> – derived from analysis of personal info. and behavior (¶3); and
3) <i>swift</i> – derived from observation of "team members’ behavior while working on joint projects" (¶4).
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Vance Stevens recaps recent Ning corporate decisions influencing virtual educational community developers, and outlines alternatives.
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it would be folly for educators having suffered inconvenience at best, data loss at worst, to commit their content yet again to a potentially unreliable cloud provider. Alec Couros sees this kind of thing happening more and more in the crystal ball future and suggests that schools and educators would be better off investing in self-hosting using FOSS, free and open source software (Couros, 2010).
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As suggested above, the only reliable alternative to Ning is to host your community yourself, or at a trusted institution, where you do your own regular backups, and your content is safe behind a firewall, with a UPS power source in case of power outages, and perhaps some sort of RAID system to keep you running through system crashes.
"Microsoft Office Live, their version of a web collaboration application, does not even come close to the functionality you find in Google Apps, and seems more and more like an afterthought, with no real push behind that effort." (MICROSOFT. ¶3, 2010.05.06)
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