Ning: Advantages and Disadvantages

Ning can be a great service if you have a blog that has a following. Imagine the opportunity to create your own social network for your own interests and ideas! It is easy to use and free. However, Ning only gives you a limited amount of bandwith free. If your readership grows, the likelihood is that your blog with consume a greater amount of bandwith. Once your usage reaches a certain level, Ning requires you to purchase more bandwith incrementally. This can become a costly.

See the article below for more information on this.

http://cutewriting.blogspot.com/2008/10/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-nings.html

In terms of using Ning in a work environment, you could use it as a way of increasing the business contacts of your readers since your readers would have access to one another through the network.