Goodbye Ecademy

Goodbye Ecademy.  The last straw was reducing the facilities for non-paying members, to the point where they can't use the service.  They've effectively silenced any dissent by not allowing networking or weblogging on their site, for non-paying members.

I had been a "PowerNetworker" but there is little value for non-UK based people like me, who in Australia effectively pays over twice the price for 1/20th the value.

Ton has put together a lot of the things I was going to say.
In leaving a comment for Ton, I realised some of the things I'd like to ask of Ecademy and Thomas Power.

 
• How confidential is the information which people post in private messages?
 
• How many members join versus how many "leave" or go dormant?
 
• Do Ecademy remove members or keep them there to make the numbers look better?
 
• What is the financial status of Ecademy?
 
• Why hasn't Ecademy grown exponentially as other networks have?
 
• How much intellectual capital has Ecademy lost by pissing off many people for a few extra bucks?

I guess you pays your money and takes your choice.

Comments

[Lee Wilkins]

hmmmmmm, I could answer a few of those

[whilsher]

Do you know of any networking sites (or good blogs) which cover Melbourne

Thanks

Ken

[Patrick Brown]

Hi Tony,
Don’t forget to keep up with all the gossip about Ecademy at: http://ecademywatch.tribe.net