9, investigators made an unannounced visit to the Tainan campus of Kang Ning and found three violations.
Yao said the third violation Kang Ning committed was transforming continuing education classes into formal degree courses without going through the legal admission channels.
Ning's co-founder and chairman, Marc Andreessen, has joined Glam Media's board of directors and Jason Rosenthal, the former CEO of
Ning, joins the company as EVP of Social Media and general manager of
Ning.
According to Glam Media, combining Ning's technology and engaging social platforms with Glam Media's premium advertising solutions and reach will accelerate its vision of bringing brand marketers online by helping them to engage with social communities across all digital mediums.
Ning will operate as a new business unit within Glam Media.
This paper notes that the Li Ning Company was the first Chinese company to use the American marketing concept of franchising, many years before the Ministry of Domestic Trade enacted China's first franchise law in 1997.
In early 1989, Li Ning's athletic wear company was still in its embryonic stages.
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Ning is a social network, an online place for people to have discussions, write blogs, upload photos and video, and make new connections, but unlike more famous social networks like Facebook or MySpace, a
Ning can be walled off, so that only members of a particular community have access to that community.
The Classroom 2.0
Ning (http://classroom20.ning.com/), which is for educators using Web 2.0 technologies, has almost 5,000 members and recently won a 2007 Edublog Award for best educational use of a social networking service.
So you can browse
Ning either as a user, someone keen to start using these tools and wanting to make the most of the services they offer' or as a developer, someone looking for a great site to "clone".