Where are LITA and ALA in social networks?

From an email exchange on: LITA-L

I just recently read about and joined Ning, But I am not yet convinced
that it is a better product than having presence(s) on older social
networks. If one is a frequenter of MySpace or Facebook where, as it
happens, there are a number of groups related to libraries, Where would
one find an entree to Ning? It seems that an important aspect of social
networking services is the chance for discovery. How does one discover
highly specific social networks on Ning? Maybe this is just an issue of
preferring what I already know over the unknown of Ning. If Ning takes
off and achieves saturation in the same way that the bigger social
networking sites have done then my concerns will be moot.

"Not Only is there No God, Try getting a plumber on the weekend."
--Woody Allen, 1965, from the new _Yale Book of Quotations_

Drew, Bill wrote:
> As many of you already know, I created a Library 2.0 social network on
> Ning. I have seen that ALA has a MySpace page and is present in Second
> Life. Why not get ALA and LITA to create official social networks on
> Ning? The Library 2.0 network now has over 450 members. It has be live
> only 10 days.
>
> Wilfred (Bill) Drew
> Associate Librarian, Systems and Reference
> Morrisville State College Library
> E-mail: mailto:drewwe@morrisville.edu

(Subsequently, I learned of Jenny Levine's ALA Ning.com network. ) -SB
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Steve Brantley
University of Illinois at Chicago
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