UK podcast directory Podcast Nation has announced that it will be expanding its community by offering a new media enthusiasts’ social network, run on the Ning API, at http://podcastnation.ning.com.

Podcast Nation Editor-in-Chief Mark Crook said, “Podcast Nation is a great way for both finding and promoting podcasts, and by developing our community at Ning, which has proved itself as a flexible and reliable system for building social networks, we can put podcast producers and listeners together. We’ve always been behind building communities – we were one of the principal sponsors of this year’s highly successful PodCamp UK – and this takes us further down that path. I’m really looking forward to seeing what people will do with these powerful tools.”

The UK Podcast Forum is also moving to run on the same network.