Writing effectively is academically and professionally crucial for students, and helping them attain that skill is a major goal for writing instruction. The social networking site Ning offers a variety of Web 2.0 tools that can help students learn to write as well as write to learn. In this article, the authors describe their personal experiment using Ning to implement a semester-long write-to-learn activity with two sections of the writing course French Literature and Civilization in Translation. Although this article is a personal account rather than an exhaustive scientific study, the authors hope that a discussion of their experience, their students' feedback, and perceived results will guide others considering such activities in their classrooms. (Contains 5 figures and 7 endnotes.)