Welcome to Webjam and Ning two of the more popular, free, online services that allow you to create your own personal space on the web and connect with your friends, family, colleagues... Go ahead and start your son’s hockey team site or your daughter’s science club online. Communicate with family across Canada and the world, promote your band or save the earth. Share those wedding plans with everyone!
Smaller companies might be interested in creating a Webjam-based community. Instead of hiring a developer and designer, The Other Side Magazine only had to subscribe to Webjam’s services and now their members can write their own blog posts, comment on almost every piece of content, maintain their own profile, publish their own “art”, and have discussions in the forums.
Webjam, a platform that allows users to build customizable services on the Web, including publications, social networks, and various flavors in between, has unveiled a new layer directed at brand managers, called Branded Services.
The supply of organizations big and small that might perhaps benefit from (Branded Services) is large. Very large, in fact. So it is really to Webjam’s advantage to pitch the Branded Services option to prospective companies in need of or in search of an adaptive solution.
Relatively few people have time and skill to sit down and hand code a community-based website. Even less actually want to. Webjam is a service that simplifies that process greatly.
Webjam might be more appropriate for businesses looking to spread a brand virally, as it allows them to build branded online communities and lets individuals in those communities automatically replicate their own branded splinter social publishing platforms.
Interview with Sam Lassman Watts, creator of The Other Side on Webjam
le cool: And what’s next for the Other Side?
Sam: Well, we’re going to do 25,000 copies of the next issue. It was only February last year that our print run was 150 so things are going really well...
Candidates who use services such as Webjam... can control the privacy settings to ensure only certain people can view their profile.
Interview with Sam Lassman Watts, creator of The Other Side on Webjam
Guardian: What's your biggest challenge?
Sam Lassman Watts: The blank canvas that was our initial Webjam page. I didn't have a clue, but now we have a full on website commended by many users.
London-based Ning-competitor Webjam has secured a further $1.9 million (1.2M Euros) in funding led by initial investor I-Source.
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Written on 12-Jun-2008 by webjam
I just got around to today to taking my next steps on Webjam and noticed another new feature ‘promote’... having a badge widget allows Webjam to promote both themselves and their authors - nice job guys...
It's my feeling at this point that if you want to start a blog and don’t want the hassle you should be talking to these guys.