http://socialgotemplates.com

It was a really strange time for everyone and no-one, including the senior management in London, appeared to know how to resolve the situation. The bankruptcy was filed for on the Monday morning (approx midnight Sunday EST) and the Lehman dream was over.

Most of my colleagues spent the proceeding days in a state of shock; sat at their desks, frantically trying to reach out to recruiters who had started to assemble en-masse in Canary Wharf to pick out the talent.

But I felt that I should be doing something more than competing against my colleagues to secure another job. I knew the path ahead was going to be uncertain but I had an overwhelming desire to try and find another way of accommodating the people that had potentially just lost their jobs.

So on the Thursday (18th Sep) I came up with the concept of http://www.creditcrunched.org whilst commuting in to London on the train. I had recently hooked up a really bright and web-savvy business partner for an interest outside of Lehman and mentioned the idea of having a platform that could try and cater for the people being axed in the City. She immeidately arranged a meeting with the team at Social Go and within an hour or so after meeting them, http://www.creditcrunched.org had been born.

It’s primary purpose: to bring candidates to recruiters; allow recruiters to advertise jobs and try and beat the scuffles in Canary Wharf; create a platform for people to blog their experiences, thoughts and views; amongst many other features.

Now: it’s growing reasonably and serving it’s primary purpose of assisting people where it can in the credit crunch. I can sympathise with the guys who are running the troops site as it’s taking up huge amounts of my time and will start to cost from January. But without a shadow of a doubt, it’s been a hugely rewarding experience thus far and it’s all down to the guys at Social Go: Tom and Alex. May I wish tem all the success for their New Year roll out!

Just so you know I am, errr, I mean, my company WidgetLavatory is the best thing to hit the interweb! If you don’t know this yet, you will eventually. And even if you disagree, that won’t matter because sticks and stones can break my bones. but words will never harm me. Ooooohh. Sticks, Stones, Bones, I’m getting all warm in my lower parts.

So anyway, the truth is, I am sad sometimes for the people who are stuck using that horrible pile-of-crap Ning. Because they are not around for me to pickpocket, I mean, not around to grovel at my polished toenails and tell me how wonderful I am. This does on occasion make me cry big crocodile tears. And that ruins my eyeliner.

I always planned to get thrown off of Ning. Yeah. Because I’m slick like that. I wanted it from the get-go. You know why? Because ain’t nobody gonna hold me back. I’m a bucking bronco and I can’t be corralled. I’m a rolling stone. Like a drifter I was born to walk alone.

Ning didn’t know how to cook Bratislavan sausage. So I found another host to latch onto. These guys are from Europe so they know how to make a good kielbasa. I love to put sausages in my mouth.

So I’m gonna keep on keeping on. I hope you all bring your business to my new company, I mean, the platform I found where I could easily con my way into good graces despite my untarnished reputation. Because I want your money. In fact, before you make any more financial decisions, make sure you’ve saved a few grand for me. Because each dollar brings me closer to realizing my dream of becoming a woman.

This is The Evil Genius – Spencer Foreskin signing off

Well said! Ning got rid of a cancer and for some odd reason, SocialGO decided to adopt that cancer!

I think that they will regret that decision soon enough though, the “evil genius” guy is already parading himself as if he was the CEO of SocialGO! LOL

The SocialGO founders have a solid background and a competitive looking product, which is now being sullied with this bickering.

It shows a disturbing lack of vetting or judgment on the part of SocialGo’s management, and I can’t imagine that a good result will come out of it.

The first network I tried was Ning, being the most well known. I was NOT impressed.

The first problem we found was that Ning was very difficult to customize and a key point of this project was to be able to integrate the network with our website – to make it look like a part of our website – seamlessly.

The next problem was how do I get rid of the Ningbar? I can’t. I hate the Ningbar.

In his post, Mark Frost is unhappy with the premade templates SocialGO provides. But what about those of us who want to go beyond the premade templates? If you have chosen Ning, you are s**t out of luck. Care to take a look at the network I have set up with SocialGO, and tell me you could come even close to achieving the same integration with Ning? Not likely!

The third problem was the lack of support from the Ning team. I have sent numerous support emails to them, and have not had a single reply. The support I have received from the SocialGO team has been outstanding from day 1.

Ning vs SocialGO? No contest. SocialGO all the way!

Ning has also removed forums from the Network Creators site. And they’re heavily moderating comments. If you read through some of the comments on the developers forum, they are mostly positive. That’s because Ning moderates and removes negative comments.

It’s their platform so they can do whatever they want.

..and that rat is a couple fellas named Ed and Josh from this scammy little website trying to exploit the military and their families.

In his post here on TC, they write: “Now we have investors coming on and are investing in a site overhaul…”

But on their “Donation” page on their site, they write: “The founders and administration of Troopspace do not believe in making money off of our members. However, until we are fully funded we are running this site out-of-pocket.”

They even write: “Bless you” on their site (but only on the Donation page.)

Which is it fellas? Do you have “investors” who have invested in your website or are you paying for yourself with “donations” from your website.

Scammers.

I believe in the military and just for fun, I’m going to build another site on Ning that directly competes with yours. I’ll market it better and will rail against your little scam from here on it.

Let’s have some fun your scamming, thieving rats!

hmmmmm….

Sounds like someone we know? (Starts with an “S”)

BTW, Spencer is the epitome of loser and will remain unsuccessful in his life. People like him always do.

Trust this, IF Spence and his company was doing well, he would have other things to do by now. But he’s got all the time in the world on his hands, because the Ning-MoneyTrain kicked him off and went bye-bye.

I love it.

I bet Spencer spent 3 hours writing his comment – and that shows how “busy” he is since Ning bitch-slapped him and his company and “poor ‘wittle Spencer ‘wost all his money”!

hahahahah

You guys ARE in fact, idiots. It took you how long to build a new website? 2 months or so? Wow! That’s some strong talent you guys have over there.

And SocialGO will be a SocialNO. They just can’t compete with Ning.

Man, I bet you wish you still had that Ning-Cash-Cow again, huh?

Hey, spend another 3 hours and write another comment. I’m sure you’ve got plenty of time on your hands.

Then, I’ll need a gender change. . . .

Simply expressing my views – and will continue to do so. Tom=delusional, jumping to conclusions, conspiracy theorist?