It is also possible I could start with simply installing Buddypress, and see how it goes. I know it is possible to change a wordpress install to a multisite.
I am learning wordpress as well. So there is a learning curve, but I am pretty tech savvy. I should do a local installation first. I have used instant WP for a local install… and like how you can take wordpress installations with you on a usb drive. But it is incompatible with multisite. Any reccomendations for software to use to do a local install with multi-site?
I have been experimenting with “Commons in Box” and like its clean interface- I see it as a turn key solution… but I would welcome other suggestions- if you have them.
In my reading it seems as though multipress has otton a little more stable… that doing what i want used to be a a little harder when buddypress was new. Ubernaut, Do you run a multisite?