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I have been an ipad and generally a tablet skeptic from the get go (I like screens that can stand up on their own!).  But recently I was asked to help set up a social network for a project that purchased ipads for all the participants.  Ugh - I cant seem to find a good social networking tool that can deal with mobile safari.  So far only edmodo seems to provide any formatting options for entering text - but it wont let ipad users attach…

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So many of the open source SN tools use editors like coeditor and tinymce that do not work well with iPads. I decided to give Ning another look. So far I see a few glitches, but text at least is easy to use.

The software is not that hard to use (especially ning - soo easy) so I thought it would not be too much work to put up one of my own. Turns out that getting that critical mass of users to keep the site going is a lot of work. We have had two false starts and finally our algebra teacher site looks like it is building some momentum. Who knew it would be this hard?