Bye-Bye Ning...

...Hello Spruz! It is final, greyeyesgabriel international has decided on a new social network provider and we are left scratching our heads at this one; wondering why we were still @Ning!

We are pleased to announce that ALL social networks in the greyeyesgabriel company will be changing to the Spruz social website builder platform. When you visit for the first time, you will see for yourself why we chose this young company to be our provider. But there are even more technical reasons behind this decision.

  One of the reasons for our decision is that if in the future, Spruz decides to drop support for their free platform or force everyone to pay, we want to be able to make migration easier and be able to keep OUR content in OUR social network to maintain your privacy! With Spruz; we have the option to download our network and host it on our own servers or migrate it to another network. This was the most crucial element in our migration.

  We are hoping to make the migration for all of our networks as soon as possible; but please be patient with us as there will be phases of the migration. The first network to be migrated (our test network) is greyeyesgabriel network. The migration officially begins at Monday, April 26, 2010 at 12:01 am, US central time, but we just couldn't wait to spread the news and offer memberships early since development wrapped up early today. So welcome to our new social network @Spruz! Just click below to go there and join now:

  And if you are already a member from Ning, then you can click the migration link below:

Thank you for your support and patience through this period of growth.

~greyeyesgabriel

Ning: “Pay or Leave!”

As some of you may have heard through the media by now, Ning has decided to no longer support their free platform. They will be releasing new "affordable pricing plans" on May 4th for the now free Ning Network Developers. I will not get into any feelings or ill regard for their logic "business decision" or enter into the politics of the corporation; this is just an announcement for the friends of greyeyesgabriel.

 
As you may know, greyeyesgabriel international has many networks rooted in the Ning platform and this announcement that first came out in the blog on April 15; which I did not hear about until April 22, from an online tech source; has put greyeyesgabriel international and all of it's subsidiary companies in a very tough position. So greyeyesgabriel international has decided to end all affiliation with Ning and move to another provider for our social networking needs. We will be developing the networks as quickly as we can; however we ask for your understanding and patience during this migration, as we are a very small web upstart.

We have the ability to migrate your member information to our new network provider; however, Ning has thus far retained rights to the blogs, photos, music, forums, and all other additional information added to the network. You can rest assured that after the migration is complete and you are comfortably in our brand new home at greyeyesgabriel network on our new platform, the greyeyesgabriel network on Ning will be deleted and all information destroyed.

We apologize for any inconveniences that might occur or that have been caused by this business decision; and we hope that you decide to remain with the greyeyesgabriel brand for your web needs. We are currently looking at several very promising platforms and will notify everyone when we decide which company we will be moving to, until I talk to you again; thank you so very much for all of your support of the greyeyesgabriel brand.

~greyeyesgabriel

New Package Deals Delayed!

We are sorry to announce that the package deals that we were going to begin offering this week have been slightly delayed. Our negotiations have fallen through with the companies that we use and we can not mention them by name; but rest assured that we still plan to offer affordable packages for you and your company. We use only the best products and services on the web, and even though we can't say them by name; we are sure that you know who they are by visiting our websites; as we choose to keep their names displayed because we do appreciate what they provide in free services and think it is just good business to advertise for free. You may choose not to show their branding links and there will be packages that will provide those paid features offered by those suppliers.


Through the failed negotiations we have also come up with an idea that has provided us a new domain name (not yet chosen), to provide a value priced web site and social network package, which will also include your own branded widget. We are dedicated to providing you with the best viral tools and services to improve your chances of getting noticed; and the introduction of this new brand name will reflect that.


We are also planning a library of free resources that you can use as training and tools for web production should you choose to copy the formula that we use ourselves. We support Open Source, freeware, shareware, and Open API services and products and have been a part of growing some of your favorite free tools. We are constantly testing new technologies and tools to provide the best service and information possible. Why do we provide so much for free? Because we know how hard it can be to get a business started online; and we know that the trust we build now, with our clients will pay of by you telling others about us, which will result in more business for us and will allow our company continual growth. In this respect we will be able to offer even better service and products to help your business. We want to advertise for our clients, because our clients are our best advertising. Thank you, as always, for supporting the greyeyesgabriel brand.