Blogs - Ning Creators Social Network2024-03-28T11:03:24Zhttps://creators.ning.com/blogs/feed/allCCS Coding Helphttps://creators.ning.com/blogs/ccs-coding-help2021-02-09T23:39:13.000Z2021-02-09T23:39:13.000ZStephen Pagehttps://creators.ning.com/members/StephenPage<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8536638483?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>I need to make some simple CSS Coding changes to:<br /><a href="https://hearthealthcommunity.com">https://hearthealthcommunity.com</a></p><p>Does anyone have a recommendation ?<br />Many thanks</p><p>Stephen Page</p><p>Creator</p><p>Heart Health Community.com</p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}8536638453,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}8536638453,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="710" alt="8536638453?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></p></div>5 Steps to Keep on the Edgehttps://creators.ning.com/blogs/5-steps-to-keep-on-the-edge2020-07-31T11:49:27.000Z2020-07-31T11:49:27.000ZPaul B Thomashttps://creators.ning.com/members/PaulBThomas398<div><p>With millions of networks and clients and competitors out there, take your confidence and super-charge it with these thoughts.<br /> <strong>1.</strong> <strong>Take time to build.</strong> Time spend on your <strong>One Great</strong> Idea that separates you from your competitors. What's your unique offering. What can you offer that others dont?<br /> <strong>2.</strong> <strong>Build people</strong> as you build your Network. Building your company of one is essential to arriving at your company network of 1001. Your investment is not only financial, its people. Without your investment into the minds of others with your unique core solutions and ideas, you have no investment or future either<br /> <strong>3.</strong> <strong>Always have an Idea in development</strong>. Ideas make a man come alive. You're only as "one fire" as your idea. If my idea don't keep me awake at night thinking about it, I leave it. Take your passion and make that your mission. It keep you awake in the day too.<br /> <strong>4.</strong> <strong>Keep learning.</strong> In my network (which is new) I have the motto: "Everyman a leader, everyman a student." In motivating others dont negelct your own personal growth. Find leaders who inspire you and light yor fire too. connect to them befriend them and ask them to mentor you. Yes, mentors are larners too.<br /> <strong>5.</strong> <strong>Give yourself a daily Heroes Welcome.</strong> Look in the mirror every day and say. "Wow, todays my day, I'm a shifter and leader. I stand out in the crowd and stand up in my place. Today I lead." Here goes now make it happen.<br /> Regards,<br /> Paul.</p></div>Terrified about 3.0 upgradehttps://creators.ning.com/blogs/terrified-about-3-0-upgrade2020-06-20T20:37:42.000Z2020-06-20T20:37:42.000ZKaren Hardyhttps://creators.ning.com/members/KarenHardy<div><p>Im feeling a certain way. Anyone terrified by the 3.0 upgrade? I dont feel too confident and it looks like a lot of work. I have 12 yesrs of information on my network.</p></div>Creativity is Our responsibilityhttps://creators.ning.com/blogs/creativity-is-our-responsibility2020-06-19T12:01:06.000Z2020-06-19T12:01:06.000ZPaul B Thomashttps://creators.ning.com/members/PaulBThomas398<div><p>Ning provides a great platform, some have said int he past that Ning is old school, I agree, but Ning works. It works because it attracts those with ideas and those with creativity. Without these two factors dreams remain dormant and die. Taking responsibility for ones creativity is the first step toard sucess. Having the will to find out something when there are no solutions, ask questions when you dont have answers and build people when you dont have a crowd. If one has creativity then nothing is impossible. Ones ability to create is always greater than a platforms ability to provide. Take what you have and make it happen. Refuse to quit until your idea is alive and active. Then keep on going.<br />Paul</p></div>Ability to feature and unfeature lost, as is My Network pagehttps://creators.ning.com/blogs/ability-to-feature-and-unfeature-lost-as-is-my-network-page2020-06-03T00:12:52.000Z2020-06-03T00:12:52.000ZGerry Reganhttps://creators.ning.com/members/GerryRegan<div><p>We are a holdover, using Ning 2.0. I and my fellow admin can no longer feature and unfeature posts, nor can I access the My Network link, which no longer works. Ning Support has maintained for the past five days that the tech team is troubleshooting, but there's been no progress on our end, and only 'we're trying' from the support team. Any experience, and, ideally, solutions to share and recommend?</p></div>Be the Leader you wish to Followhttps://creators.ning.com/blogs/be-the-leader-you-wish-to-follow2020-03-04T15:52:11.000Z2020-03-04T15:52:11.000ZPaul B Thomashttps://creators.ning.com/members/PaulBThomas398<div><p>Creativity is energy, ideas in you come alive, possibilities in you are energised and you get into "do it" mode. This does not happen by accident, but rather takes places as we engage with others doing "better work" Folks who are leaders in their field. Hence the importance of leadership. If ning provides the leaders and leadership, network builders then can build networks that lead. We all need inspiration and its always the leaders that have to inspire first. Find your crowd that inspires you then you will see inspirational leaders. If you dont find such a one, be that one! You are the Leader in your field!</p></div>Live chat supporthttps://creators.ning.com/blogs/live-chat-support2019-06-07T12:40:44.000Z2019-06-07T12:40:44.000ZMonitorul Fondurilorhttps://creators.ning.com/members/MonitorulFondurilor<div><p>Hello everyone,<br/>I want to put live chat support on a landing page from the NING platform.<br/>From what I understand to make this possible I have to insert a source code for this live chat!<br/>I would like to know from your experience what recommendations you can give me to insert a live chat. I'm also interested if you found one with free functionality!<br/>As a function, this live chat also wants to have automatic options to insert a welcome note for those who enter the page, to wait for an answer if the operators are busy and also to collect the email address .</p><p>I would be glad if some of you could give me some tips and recommendations for inserting a live chat directly on a landing page from the NING platform.</p><p>Thank you!</p></div>i want to create a rss feed from the activityhttps://creators.ning.com/blogs/i-want-to-create-a-rss-feed-from-the-activity2019-05-04T18:38:21.000Z2019-05-04T18:38:21.000Zmark burnetthttps://creators.ning.com/members/markburnett619<div><p>i want to create a rss feed from the activity </p></div>To Ning's CEOhttps://creators.ning.com/blogs/to-ning-s-ceo2019-02-27T20:26:53.000Z2019-02-27T20:26:53.000ZSteve Chttps://creators.ning.com/members/SteveC<div><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I am a HUGE supporter of Ning. You folks try really hard and it shows. I hope to </span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">be with you forever. But if you, as Ning's CEO, won't disclose your identity and other </span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">details of the company, then I have no choice but to leave.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">That's the last thing I want to do.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ning, and our sites, could disappear overnight, and with it years of content; a decade's worth in my case.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You have all of our member information. Member emails could end up who knows </span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">where, and their IP addresses traced to locations. Confidential member-to-member </span><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">communications revealed, and more.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I am responsible for the safety and wellbeing of my </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">members, and this needs to be rectified right away.</span></p><p><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Things may be different in Russia than in the western world. But if you want </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">to succeed worldwide—which you deserve to do</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, even with the bugs and slowish </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">development—you're going to have to be open about the company.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Please, let's get this handled now.</span></p><p><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Steve</span></p></div>How to build an Iframe Switcher for Your Communityhttps://creators.ning.com/blogs/how-to-build-an-iframe-switcher-for-your-community2018-07-08T00:36:14.000Z2018-07-08T00:36:14.000Z⚡JFarrow⌁https://creators.ning.com/members/JFarrow<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/50393845?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>If you have been running your community for some time you probably have a lot of resources to share. You may be looking for a compact way to showcase many tools in the same place, such as a getting started page or a resources page. I am going to quickly show you how to build a simple way to switch between several iframes without leaving the page. You can see it live <a href="http://landsurveyorsunited.com/group/surveyorsonlinetoolbox" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inside a text box on this group</a> inside a Ning 2.0 (but it will certainly work inside 3.0)...and alternatively I have it hosted standalone in my github <a href="https://landsurveyorsunited.github.io/cssfiles/switcher.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> (so i can iframe in my iframe switcher). Let's begin.</p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>HTML (You can shorten the URLs if you like)</strong></span></p><p><select class="switcher"><br/> <option value="https://somelink.com/">Something</option><br/> <option value="https://goo.gl/BPVk7m">Else</option><br/> <option value="https://goo.gl/fnvCqW">Workflows</option><br/> <option value="https://goo.gl/0A86G1">Another Resource</option><br/> <option value="https://goo.gl/mYLons">Another</option><br/> <option value="https://goo.gl/EjW6fI">Yep, another</option><br/> <option value="https://goo.gl/DFTv72">And this one</option><br/> <option value="https://goo.gl/MK5rOa">yes and again</option><br/> <option value="https://goo.gl/YXdIWs">next to last resource</option><br/> <option value="https://www.justinfarrow.com/ning">JFarrow helps with Ning sites</option><br/></select></p><p><br/><iframe class="switch-target" width="100%" height="600" src=""></iframe></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>CSS (style the select box however you like)</strong></span></p><p><style> select { display: block; } </style></p><p> </p><p>JS (must add small x in front of all jquery $ signs inside Ning)</p><p><script></p><p>var switcher$ = x$('.switcher'), // select element<br/> switchTarget$ = x$('.switch-target'); // iframe</p><p>switcher$.on('change', switchIframeSrc); // event binding</p><p>// our functiono to switch the iframe src<br/>function switchIframeSrc() {<br/> // set the 'src' attribute of the iframe<br/> // to the value of the selected option<br/> switchTarget$.attr('src', switcher$.val());<br/>}</p><p>// call the method on load<br/>switchIframeSrc();</p><p> </p><p></script></p><p> </p><p>Here is all the HTML, CSS and JS inside my codepen for you to fork and try with your own links and resources... your links inside the iframe MUST be https:// to work.</p><p><iframe src="//codepen.io/JFarrow/embed/wXVqvj/?height=300&theme-id=3719&default-tab=html,result&embed-version=2" width="100%" height="300" frameborder="no">See the Pen <a rel="nofollow" href="https://codepen.io/JFarrow/pen/wXVqvj/">Iframe Switcher GSLSU</a> by JFarrow (<a rel="nofollow" href="https://codepen.io/JFarrow">@JFarrow</a>) on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://codepen.io">CodePen</a>.</iframe></p></div>Success Story with Bechy, Mathclub Virtualhttps://creators.ning.com/blogs/success-story-with-bechy-mathclub-virtual2018-03-31T19:16:15.000Z2018-03-31T19:16:15.000ZVictoria_NINGhttps://creators.ning.com/members/Viktoriia<div><p>Every day new network creators come to our platform and start their own social website. There are so many of us today that we decided to tell more about our members. And want to share with you a story about Bechy, <a href="http://mathclubvirtual.ning.com/">MathClub Virtual</a>.</p>
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<p>I am Colombian, a teacher of mathematics, passionate about virtual environments to teach and learn.</p>
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<p>MathClub was initially a face-to-face math club, formed by students of the Educational Institution No 2 in which I work. The club grew and students from other institutions expressed their desire to join. Not being able to gather everyone in a physical space, I decided to create Virtual MathClub in NING. Today we have thousands of members from more than 20 countries. For my MathClub it is my virtual house, and all its members form a great family.</p>
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<p>I can not imagine my community without the FORUMS, I love helping students who have difficulty with math or with some problem that they have not been able to solve, that is why we have several forums of advising.</p>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-36218 alignleft" src="http://cdn.ning.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BD-%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%B7-%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F-3.png" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" srcset="https://cdn.ning.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Дизайн-без-названия-3.png 800w, <a href=" /></p>
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<p>The first foreign member of our network was Professor Ali Amgaad of Morocco. I keep a lot of gratitude because it motivated me a lot and gave me ideas for the community. He became my best friend, although I only know him virtually.</p>
<p>With Professor John Jairo Escobar of Ibagué, we developed a project for the learning of Multivariate Calculus which was developed in a GROUP created in Virtual MathClub, this experience was awarded by the RIBIE in the category of educational experiences in higher education.</p>
<p>Thanks to MathClub Virtual I was selected in 2011 to attend the ICT Training for Colombian Teachers in Incheon, South Korea. I have been a speaker at mathematics conferences and educational informatics in countries such as Spain, Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina. In 2015 I was invited by UNESCO to the International Conference on ICT and Post-2015 Education, in Qingdao, China.</p>
<p>One of the activities we do in our community is the preparation of eleventh-grade students for State tests through online workshops. Last year this experience received the National Award for Digital Social Mobilization of the ICT Ministry.</p>
<h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Can you give us some tips how to build successful community?</strong></span></h2>
<p>I think we should do everything possible to answer members in the chat, in forums and messages. Send messages to all members informing about the achievements and the new features that are incorporated.</p>
<h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Tell us a little about your experience with NING?</strong></span></h2>
<p>NING has been too important in my professional life, it has taken me further than I ever dreamed. It’s nice to be a teacher, not only of the students who assign me in the institution I work for but of thousands of students who come to MathClub Virtual in search of support in mathematics. And it is also very pleasant to meet and share experiences with professors from different countries.</p>
<p>I want to take this opportunity to say: Thank you NING.</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Want to share your story? Write us at</strong> <a href="http://hello@ning.com/" data-cke-saved-href="http://hello@ning.com">hello@ning.com</a></p>
</div>What's new: №3https://creators.ning.com/blogs/what-s-new-n32018-03-31T17:34:34.000Z2018-03-31T17:34:34.000ZVictoria_NINGhttps://creators.ning.com/members/Viktoriia<div><p>Hi creators!</p>
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Wonder what has happened with our community lately? Read our latest materials:</p>
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<li>Community Story with <a href="https://www.ning.com/blog/2018/03/community-story-tim-grimes.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Grimes, GoldProspectorsSpace</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.ning.com/blog/2018/03/10-tips-to-drive-more-blog-traffic-from-linkedin.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10 tips to drive more blog traffic from Linkedin</a></li>
<li>New discussions in <a href="https://creators.ning.com/group/business-networking" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NING Business Club</a> and <a href="https://creators.ning.com/group/monetization-with-ning" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Monetization with NING</a> groups </li>
<li><a href="https://www.ning.com/blog/2018/03/choose-best-digital-marketing-channel-business.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to choose the best digital marketing channel for your business</a> </li>
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<p>Have something you want to share with us? Post your thoughts in comments!</p>
</div>Bar Skysa into 3.0https://creators.ning.com/blogs/bar-skysa-into-3-02018-02-03T17:20:54.000Z2018-02-03T17:20:54.000ZAlex - Rosas † Negrashttps://creators.ning.com/members/RosasNegras<div><p>It is possible to put the skysa bar I have problems on this,But and possible on 3.0</p><p><a href="http://www.skysa.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.skysa.com/</a></p></div>Pagans, Heathens, Occultists- New Group for networkinghttps://creators.ning.com/blogs/pagans-heathens-occultists-new-group-for-networking2018-01-24T18:48:52.000Z2018-01-24T18:48:52.000ZLady Shadowhttps://creators.ning.com/members/LadyShadow<div><p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><a href="https://creators.ning.com/group/pagansandheathensonning/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pagans,& Heathens Networking </a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>For those of us who may be Witches,Wiccans,Pagans,Heathens, and are seeking to network with other of like mind and interests. I have begun a new group here for us to share our communities. If your Owner or Admin on NING or and even Spruz.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Click link above and add your site with a legit link and brief About.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Blessed Be</strong></span></p></div>Zen and the Art of Mushroom Cultivation : An Inquiry into Morelshttps://creators.ning.com/blogs/zen-and-the-art-of-mushroom-cultivation-an-inquiry-into-morels2018-01-17T21:48:00.000Z2018-01-17T21:48:00.000ZChristopher Stewarthttps://creators.ning.com/members/ChristopherStewart<div><div style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 24px;"><img style="width: 444px;" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/White_Morel_IMG_0399.JPG/640px-White_Morel_IMG_0399.JPG?w=444" alt=""/><br/> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(« <em><a rel="nofollow" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White_Morel_IMG_0399.JPG" target="_blank">Morel in eastern West Virginia</a></em> » by Gzirk)</span></div><p>once, there was a guy named Gus. and although Gus was without a passion, Gus's head liked to think that Gus was a passionate guy. Gus's head also liked to think that it was bright. in fact, Gus's head just liked to think.</p><p>through apparently fortuitous circumstances, Gus was lonely most of the time. often, during that time, mostly because it just liked to think, Gus's head would think. and often, sadly, during that time, Gus's head would think that Gus was lonely most of the time. and often, sadly, mostly because it liked to think that Gus was a passionate guy, Gus's head would think that Gus was lonely most of the time, and do so with a passion. and, at those times, Gus's heart, which was infinitely wiser than Gus's head, and knew that Gus was never really alone, would thus prompt Gus to feel sad, and often, do so with a passion, so as to discourage Gus's head to keep on thinking those thoughts. but Gus's head, which all things considered was indeed bright, though not that bright, just kept on thinking those thoughts, mostly because it just liked to think. Gus's head also kept on thinking that it was bright.</p><p>Gus lived in a town where other people lived too. and the other people living in Gus's town liked to talk about Gus. in fact, the other people living in Gus's town just liked to talk. sometimes, some of them would even talk about the fact that, most of the time, most of them were passionate about talking.</p><p>through apparently fortuitous circumstances, when he was not around, which meant most of the time, sadly, and mostly because they just liked to talk, when the people would talk about Gus, they would refer to Gus as sad Gus. and often, during that time, sadly, the people would talk about how sad Gus was sad and lonely. sometimes, some of them would even talk about how, most of the time, sad Gus was sad and was without a passion. and as a consequence, sadly, most of the time, most of the other people living in Gus's town were not inclined to spend time with sad Gus.</p><p>once, through apparently fortuitous circumstances involving accidental food poisoning, Gus's head, mostly because it just liked to think, thought it would be a good idea to think more about mushrooms. and, mostly because it liked to think that Gus was a passionate guy, Gus's head thought it would be a good idea to think more about mushrooms, and do so with a passion. and, at that time, Gus's heart, which was infinitely wiser than Gus's head, and knew that what Gus really needed was to have some fun, some of the time, seized the moment and prompted Gus to feel passionate about the prospect of cultivating his own morels. Gus's head, which all things considered was indeed bright, though not that bright, just thought it just had had another good idea, mostly because it just liked to think. and, mostly because it liked to think that Gus was a passionate guy, Gus's head thought it would be a good idea for Gus to cultivate his own morels, and do so with a passion.</p><p>thus, Gus started cultivating his own morels. Gus's head quickly realized that Gus had great fun cultivating morels, and that Gus could do so with a passion. Gus's head also realized that by cultivating his own morels, Gus cultivated his own morale. and thus, often, happily, during that time, mostly because it just liked to think, Gus's head would think that it was a good idea for Gus to keep on cultivating his own morels. and thus, often, happily, mostly because it liked to think that Gus was a passionate guy, Gus's head thought it would be a good idea for Gus to keep on cultivating his own morels, and do so with a passion. and, at those times, Gus's heart, which was infinitely wiser than Gus's head, and knew that what Gus really needed was to have some fun, some of the time, would thus prompt Gus to feel happy, so as to encourage Gus's head to keep on thinking those thoughts. and thus Gus's head, which all things considered was indeed bright, though not that bright, just kept on thinking those thoughts, mostly because it just liked to think. Gus's head also kept on thinking that it was bright.</p><p>thus, through apparently fortuitous circumstances, happily, and mostly because they just liked to talk, when the other people living in Gus's town would talk about Gus, they would talk about his morels, and his morale, and refer to Gus as fun Gus. and often, during that time, happily, the people would talk about how fun Gus was fun and fun to be with. sometimes, some of them would even talk about how, most of the time, fun Gus was happy and was passionate about his morels. and as a consequence, happily, most of the time, most of the people living in Gus's town were inclined to spend time with fun Gus.</p><p>and thus, through apparently fortuitous circumstances, happily, most of the time, out of sad Gus's passionate feeling for growing fungus grows fun Gus with a passion.</p><p>and thus it is said that absence makes the heart grow fungus.</p><p>(well, it is mostly the other people living in Gus's town who like to say so. they also like to say that Gus's head thinks so too. sometimes, some of them even say that it possibly does so because it just likes to think, and do so with a passion. but you know them, they just like to talk. in fact, if that saying actually holds true, it must only do so in Gus's heart, as only hearts can hold truth.)</p></div>Will only be a dream?https://creators.ning.com/blogs/will-only-be-a-dream2017-12-28T18:55:28.000Z2017-12-28T18:55:28.000ZTony19https://creators.ning.com/members/Tony19<div><div dir="ltr">
Hello Everyone, my name is Tony and I am a network creator from Italy. I though to write a short review as appreciation for Ning platforms and to invite my fellow Italians to try it. I have started using Ning back in 2014. I still remember the great impression I had when I discovered it. At the time it wasn't much known in the Country
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What I really like about Ning is that it's a social network that help you make your own social network. Can you imagine that?
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To me Ning represents a website that everyone can access and meet people with common grounds, and that's a brilliant.
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What really distinguish Ning from other networks is that members have control and can decide which rules they want to set and follow so they can shape who they would like their social network.
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User experience is terrific! There are amazing tools for discussion and to share content. Interface is easy and gives many ways to post and contribute.
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For example, there's the opportunity to comment on members pages, discuss issues in threaded forum topics, post pictures, videos, and podcasts, create interest groups, add friends to your profile, and much more. Ning enables you to create and discover social networks for the most important people and interests in your life, the social networking as a whole has become a true phenomenon. I love the Ning platform and am very excited about the networks I have created and those in which I participate. I must say I truly appreciate all the amazing work the Ning team have done in order to provide us with a great platform that enables to create communities.
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Throughout the years Ning it’s always the best. I appreciate Ning 3.0 but I adore Ning 2.0. Creating new networks with NING 2.0 will only be a dream?
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Have you ever thought that many creators would be extremely happy to create new networks with the Ning 2.0 platform? I think that being able to choose would be a very good development. At the same time each creator would be able to create more networks. I believe that out there many people love Ning 2.0 and I hope this dream will one day will come true.
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</div></div>Christmas miracles in action: Beard Baubles fundraiser goes viralhttps://creators.ning.com/blogs/christmas-miracles-in-action-beard-baubles-fundraiser-goes-viral2017-12-21T17:51:07.000Z2017-12-21T17:51:07.000ZKyryl_Ning_Supporthttps://creators.ning.com/members/GlushchenkoKyryl<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2233579?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p dir="ltr"><span>   Do you believe in Christmas miracles? A creative agency from UK called Grey London definitely does. Their remarkable story tells how a seemingly crazy idea can literally save human lives, proving that funny festive trinkets can have much more power and meaning to them than it might seem from the first glance.</span></p>
<p><strong>   Of Beards and Christmas...</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>   If you have ever dreamt of having a Christmas tree right on your face, you will be happy to know that it is no longer a problem with</span> <a href="http://beardbaubles.org/"><span>Beard Baubles</span></a><span>, a charity project initiated by Grey London and inspired by the magical spirit of Christmas and desire to raise awareness to the deadly illness known as malignant melanoma - the skin cancer.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>   It all started as a mere experiment in December 2014, when Grey London and Beard Season, a charity organization from Australia, cooperatively launched an extraordinary product called Beard Baubles - a set of festive Christmas ornaments attached to the facial hair. The accessory became a true hit among the men who prefer to have a considerable amount of growth on their faces. In fact, the Beard Baubles became so popular that they were completely sold out in a very short period of time.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>   The photos of bearded men with Christmas baubles soon flooded the internet and gave the trend an extra spin! Now Beard Baubles are among the most fashionable and fancy Christmas accessories for men and… well, hairy dogs, as</span> <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2886009/Beard-Baubles-hit-mainstream-festive-face-fuzz-fun-invades-World-Darts-Championship.html"><span>reported</span></a> <span>by Ollie Dearn, who works at the Grey London agency - as it turned out, the trend enthralled not only humans but their pets too.</span></p>
<p><strong>   Can beards really save people?</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>   But how do Beard Baubles save lives, you would ask. All the money from the sales of the baubles is donated to the skin cancer research. The creators of Beard Baubles believe that malignant melanoma will be combated sooner if more awareness is raised concerning this problem. Needless to say, donations are very important for fighting skin cancer, but the most important is letting more people in the world know how dangerous the disease is. That’s exactly what Beard Baubles do.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>   The founder of Beard Season, Scott Maggs, makes the point: “The real goal of the #BeardBaubles isn’t raising funds, it’s inspiring action, and every day now, hundreds of people are signing up as Beard Season Ambassadors on our website, following us on social media, booking skin checks, and spreading the word”.</span></p>
<p><strong>   Impressed? Taking the next step is easy</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>   Ning is always inspired by the stories like that. We know our network creators are compassionate and charitable people, who would be happy to contribute to the right cause - that’s the reason why there are so many altruistically oriented websites on Ning.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>   To facilitate network creators in helping others, Ning has introduced a new</span> <strong>Donations feature</strong> <span>that allows users to raise funds for the purposes they consider important.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>   You can now set up a “</span><strong>Donate</strong><span>” button on any page of your Ning network, provide a</span> <strong>description</strong> <span>of your fundraiser, explain its importance, and express gratitude to those who agree to donate. You can easily check the results of your charity campaign by monitoring <strong>the</strong></span> <strong>transaction statistics</strong>.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>   So now you can come up with the idea as crazy and ambitious as the Beard Baubles in order to collect money for charity, organizations researching terminal illnesses or helping the children who lost their parents, etc.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Make the world a better place together with Ning!</span></p>
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</div>SSL Certificationhttps://creators.ning.com/blogs/ssl-certification2017-09-22T18:20:24.000Z2017-09-22T18:20:24.000ZGerard Nealyhttps://creators.ning.com/members/GerardNealy<div><p>I'm not happy. I just joined and there is no SSL Certification for custom domains? Why?</p></div>What do you see as the next phase in your community's lifecycle?https://creators.ning.com/blogs/what-do-you-see-as-the-next-phase-in-your-community-s-lifecycle2017-06-23T19:45:27.000Z2017-06-23T19:45:27.000ZShamshir Rai Luthrahttps://creators.ning.com/members/ShamshirRaiLuthra<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2233580?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>A Big Positive Hi There - to the new Ning Team and my Ning Creator comrades from New Delhi, India.</strong></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>It's 1:10 am and I just can't stop loving you!</strong></span></p><p>I heard a slight bumble bee buzz, it was like a small Ning tinggg... and so I though of putting in my long forgotten requests which were highlighted in the <span class="font-size-3"><strong>Community Spotlight</strong></span> interview by the Ning Team <span> </span><a href="http://cultivate.ning.com/community/allisonleahy">Allison Leahy</a><span> on August 12, 2013</span></p><p><em>Here is the link of that interview:</em></p><p><a target="_blank">http://cultivate.ning.com/ning-blog/community-spotlight-shamshir-rai-luthra-talking-rich</a></p><p><em>I had proposed/requested two things:</em></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>1.Live Audio Recording Feature</strong></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>2. Multiple Sign In Feature</strong></span></p><p></p><p><em>Here is an Excerpt of the interview:</em></p><p><em><strong>What do you see as the next phase in your community's lifecycle?</strong></em></p><p class="p1"><em>1. We really need an Audio recording feature, hooked in to all the other features.</em></p><p class="p1"><em>2. And a multiple network sign-in feature for our managed Ning networks, as well as signing-up, and collaborating with other Ning networks.</em></p><p class="p1"><em>Let me explain how and why:</em></p><p class="p1"><em> * Co-Promotion: Collectively, all Ning communities together are bigger than Facebook. For, numbers is just a game. Money and Time Investing Leaders are the ones who can create more value, because they are the risk takers. And Ning has many of them. A Ning Community Owner is like a Thought Leader of Ning. Put all these leaders together, and ask them to organize, and collaborate databases, content, community welfare work and their commercial ventures. That's the next phase, or the next level of social networking that we wish to initiate. If just four of our networks are conjoined, to begin with, just a single Ning sign up, that would be a test run for many more.</em></p><p class="p1"><em> * Constant Progressive Communication Through Technology: What if all content uploads on blogs, images, etc. are not just written content, but responses in either audio or video formats as well. That would be the next level, of communication. Technology drives communication, and communication drives technology. The importance of developments in Electronic Devices must be understood by New Media, and Community Creators like Ning, and Facebook. Uploading audio responses, instead of text comments is the next level of communication that the world audiences are near-ready to use. Hope Ning Research and Development is aware of the progressive human mindset, and will remain ahead.</em></p><p class="p1"></p><p class="p1"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>PRESENT DILEMMA:</strong></span></p><p class="p1">I had purchased 4 ning networks at the time of that interview. And now am planning to reactivate the third one.</p><p class="p1">I find the ning plans expensive and unreasonable and might have to just stick to two or a singular network and move my other sites to weebly, etc.</p><p class="p1"></p><p class="p1">Can the current programming and marketing teams please understand a ning creators dilemma, and help us through this?</p><p class="p1">Best wishes,</p><p class="p1"><strong>Shamshir Rai Luthra</strong></p><p class="p1"><em>India's First Radio Jockey, Consumer Activist, Voice Healer</em></p><p class="p1"><em>My (almost) revived new Ning 3.0 Networks are:</em></p><p class="p1"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ashirvachan.com" target="_blank">www.ashirvachan.com</a></p><p class="p1"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.talkingrich.com" target="_blank">www.talkingrich.com</a></p><p class="p1"></p><p class="p1"></p><p class="p1"></p></div>NING POWERED PROJECT: Survey Earth in a Day 6https://creators.ning.com/blogs/ning-powered-project-survey-earth-in-a-day-62017-06-14T22:58:04.000Z2017-06-14T22:58:04.000Z⚡JFarrow⌁https://creators.ning.com/members/JFarrow<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2233600?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>If you have been on Creators for a while you may remember my post about Survey Earth in a Day back in 2012. This is a GLOBAL Community event for our <a rel="nofollow" href="http://landsurveyorsunited.com" target="_blank">Land Surveyor Community</a>.</p><h3 class="entry-title" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://creators.ning.com/forum/topics/ning-powered-project-survey-earth-in-a-day">NING-POWERED PROJECT: Survey Earth in a Day</a></h3><p style="text-align: center;">Well, this year will be our 6th year remeasuring the entire planet as a community, in a single day.</p><div class="wrapper"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.surveyearth.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.surveyearth.com/assets/public/images/surveyearth.png" width="100%" class="align-full"/></a></div><p>What Is Survey Earth in a Day?</p><p>On the day of the solstice June 20, 2017, geospatial professionals around the world and members of Land Surveyors United (a global support network for land surveyors) will be simultaneously recording survey grade GNSS/GPS data from thousands of points around the globe, in order to promote awareness of and a better public understanding of the surveying profession. Measurements made on this day will serve as comparative data from prior events and to expand upon the database of logged points.</p><p><span><span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.surveyearth.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.surveyearth.com/assets/public/images/456.jpg" class="align-center"/></a></span></span></p><p></p><p><span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://surveyearth.com" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/QxHBc5XE_RiuixT94rEZ18e1upBOEdeTAwjKxR9zylyhHT5KO3MC__sgn2VAevgNQ99qOlPDWEw_Ff_HNn-_4YNwHa86ZGAZ8TORS2UhWL8TEWXJZeAvETJgWrIcOxWhSMefwUY" class="align-center"/></a><br/></span></p><div id="TE_3" class="mce-content-body"><p><span class="font-size-5">So WHAT happens on Survey Earth in a Day?</span><br/> On the day of the solstice June 20, 2017, geospatial professionals around the world and members of Land Surveyors United (a global support network for land surveyors) will be simultaneously recording survey grade GNSS/GPS data from thousands of points around the globe, in order to promote awareness of and a better public understanding of the surveying profession. Measurements made on this day will serve as comparative data from prior events and to expand upon the database of logged points.</p></div><p></p><p>This is just an example of what you can do with a Global Community!</p><p></p></div>Brainwave Fusion: HipHop, Rap, Music Videos | Entertainment Newshttps://creators.ning.com/blogs/brainwave-fusion-hiphop-rap-music-videos-entertainment-news2017-05-04T20:23:46.000Z2017-05-04T20:23:46.000ZDan Leehttps://creators.ning.com/members/DanLee<div><p>Brainwave Fusion is a social networking outlet that connects eager entrepreneurs, business owners, and employers/employees with reputable companies.</p>
<p>BrainWave Fusion is a leading website to upload and share music videos online for free. Upcoming musicians can submit music videos and songs to the website for free promotion.</p>
<p>BrainWave Fusion was created to provide a platform for upcoming artists to showcase their talent. BrainWave Fusion lets artists upload, promote and share their videos to get seen by more fans. We also let artists create profiles and consolidate all their social media platforms in one place for easy reach and distribution to fans. Ever wanted your Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Sound cloud and YouTube videos all in one place. Well BrainWave Fusion lets you do that.</p>
<p>Fans can also vote for their favorite videos which will help them rise up the charts increasing their visibility.</p>
<p>With BrainWave Fusion artists can:</p>
<p>– Create a profile<br />
– Add your social network and website links all in once place<br />
– Upload Videos<br />
– Promote your videos<br />
– Share music videos<br />
– Submit music videos<br />
– Rise up the charts</p>
<p>BrainWave Fusion is a premier destination website to showcase talented hip hop artists. No major label funding required. Just create your profile and get seen and heard worldwide.</p>
<p>For the fans BrainWave Fusion is destination entertainment site helping people discover new musical talent in their area and worldwide. Fans can vote for their favorite artists and even share their videos to help others discover new talent.</p>
</div>Your Community as a Planet and Prismhttps://creators.ning.com/blogs/your-community-as-a-planet-and-prism2017-03-05T22:34:44.000Z2017-03-05T22:34:44.000Z⚡JFarrow⌁https://creators.ning.com/members/JFarrow<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2233583?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><div style="color:#1d2129;font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:center;"> </div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-6"><strong>My <a href="http://landsurveyorsunited.com/" target="_blank">first community</a> Turns Ten Years Old March 10th!</strong></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:center;"><strong>After a decade of community building, here are a few things I have learned</strong></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:center;"> </div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left;"><strong>Some Observations About Planets and Such</strong></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/560228?profile=original"><img class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/560228?profile=original" alt="560228?profile=original" /></a>Online communities are like little planets, each with their own ecosystem. As a community manager, you provide the venue for conversations to happen. Once they happen, it is your job to make sure the content becomes categorized, tagged and grouped with relevant items. Of course you must make members aware that such place of your creation is the type of a place for people of suchness to discuss what it is worth discussing. In order to help others of such suchness find your place for discussing such so that they might discuss such too. As such, you must "do" certain things outside of your community, like linking back to those discussions and photos which continue to bring in new members. Only the best of the best content originating on your site will attract visitors. Visitors interested in such may become members in order to join such discussions. Then it becomes up to you to decide what you need to know about their relation to such through profile questioning. As founder, you must gauge whether or not they qualify for membership. There is a good chance that a follower of your facebook page will already be interested in your topic, as long as you stay on topic. If you stray too far from the topic, members will leave.</div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left;"> </div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left;"><strong>The Questions We Ask</strong></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/560454?profile=original"><img class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/560454?profile=original" alt="560454?profile=original" /></a>The questions you ask them should require answers by which you test their humanity and sanity, unless you're building a social community for robots and refridgerators, think of it as a quiz. This quiz is the best kind of quiz because they can always change the answers to reflect who they actually want themselves to be seen as online. The answers they save become the about section on everyone's profile. With the right tuning, a member's profile could be as impactful as a living resume. The answers they provide can tell you whether they are joining for the right reasons. Their profile become the criteria upon which all other members will gauge them as well. You shouldn't accept every person who joins to increase numbers. The person who joins must be deeply interested in the specific subject matter of your community. If not and they still try to join, they have ulterior motives, which may cause you stress eventually. In my experience I have noticed that if a person will not take the time to fill out their profile, they will never contribute anything to your community. Avoid the pain of spammers joining by asking well thought out questions in addition to using the other social platforms as your <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><em>qualifiers for new members</em></span>. That is where facebook, twitter, tumblr, pinterest, instagram and any number of other services become your community satellites, amplifying your message to other planets and to people in the future who haven't even been born yet..</div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left;"> </div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left;"><strong>Listening Through Noise</strong></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/559359?profile=original"><img class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/559359?profile=original" alt="559359?profile=original" /></a>In a world of noise, social channels become clouded and must be filtered and categorized according to relevance, if for no other reason than clarity. A community online becomes different over time, changing while pushing older content down and replacing with it with new topics. In communities of practice, old topics can become new discussions to anyone who is serious about what it is that they do. Each topic originates in your community or rather, it should. Rather than bang it out on Facebook, put it inside a post on your community and share the link on Facebook. You'll have much more control over the message that way. You message will be read by those who want to or have time to read it. When the post is live, the link becomes what you share as updates on your satellites- your associated social profiles. All of those links should all be linking back to your post in the communitynow. That link become like a prism through which the focus is channeled and redistributed in a manner similar to a spectrum - public knowledge changes every single time an object of knowledge is reinterpreted. Every time some new way of doing anything is invented, the old way may still be the best way , if for no other reason than because it is known to work. Whether or not it is will always remain a matter of opinion or debate. Questions of this suchness are timeless and as such should be grouped for reintroducing members to your site or in the very least make it simpler to find what they are looking for somewhere in that community. This is how we lessen the noise. We must learn to listen to one another through noise while reducing the noise, together.</div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left;"> </div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left;"> </div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left;"><em><strong>Think of it like this:</strong></em> Your community is your planet that you are trying to protect and grow- the inhabitants of that planet (your members) love to have choices. One such choice is the ability to follow the community feed if all things happening <em>inside</em> your community from the <em>outside</em>- from the comfort of their fb profile by following your associated facebook page, for example, as a filter. This gives them an option. They don't have to be bombarded with everything that happens. This is the whole point in Groups. You follow groups to reduce the noise. For example, a surveying student wouldn't be interested necessarily in the discussions happening in the Retired Surveyors group. Such is the case with your community. Relevance becomes possible through organization. If your members follow your satellites, they are able to casually jump in at any time. This is their <em>right</em> as <em>citizens</em> of your community to not have to be notified when something irrelevant to their interests occurs on the main site. The best way to keep those following from the outside coming in is by feeding them links to community content every-single-day. The best way to do this, in my opinion is through creation and updating of <em>linktrees</em> - one link with a collection of links related in type or subject matter. It could be discussions about a particular brand, organization, topic, category or type. You collect the links and keep adding them... but only share the one elink. Now you can pack 20 reasons to come back to the site rather than one.</div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left;"><a href="http://creators.ning.com/members/JFarrow"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}830762684,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="830762684?profile=original" /></a></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left;"><a href="https://elink.io/9ac35" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1868470?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" alt="1868470?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750" /></a>This is a snapshot of my dashboard where i have links that I can turn into newsletters or embed them. eLink basically eliminates all of the time that you normally would have to spend crafting the HTML newsletters. You can easily track your views and use deeper analytics for any of the links to get geeky. It's the best $5 (if you're a student like me) you could spend on your community.</div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left;"> </div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left;"><a href="http://landsurveyorsunited.com/" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1868482?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" alt="1868482?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="747" /></a></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left;">Recycling archived content and bringing awareness to popular items is kinda your job if you manage a community. No one likes to enter a room for the first time and join a group of people standing around and staring at one another. A good way to insure this doesn't happen is to continuously reignite the conversation by introducing new speakers to the circle. Regularly update the links and redistribute them to your peers and colleagues. On one community forum I built, we have conversations that were first started in 2009 that still receive comments and every new visitor offers a new perspective or insight from another geography. Of course you could pay a person like me to try to do it for you. I would of course do my best, but chances are it would be better if I taught you so that you could put the time in. Chances are if I can't relate the subject matter of your community to my own life, job, hobby, interest and/or passion, how could i ever really be able to make it perfect?</div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left;"> </div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left;"><strong><span class="font-size-5">Lead By Example</span></strong></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left;">Put the time in and see what you attract. If you think your community is dead because no one new is applying to join, no one posts anymore, people are leaving, or any of the 100 other reasons why communities die, you may be wrong. Word of Mouth to mouth resuscitation may save it's life. If you want for your network to expand, you must lead by example. You will never be able to effectively "pay someone to do it for" you. At the end of the day, week, month, year, decade, only you know what will gain the interest of people like you...for whom the community was intended. Take it from me..a person who like you felt at one time like i didn't know what to do next. I noticed a sort of scientific process at work that I wanted to follow closer. My original Ning <a href="http://landsurveyorsunited.com/" target="_blank">community for Professional Land Surveyors</a> built March 10th 2007 will turn 10 years old next week. I have learned a lot from managing online communities over the past decade. Hopefully some of my observations can help save a few of you some time.</div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:center;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/558897?profile=original"><img class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/558897?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" alt="558897?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750" /></a>Every June on the Solstice, <a href="http://landsurveyorsunited.com/profiles/members/" target="_blank">Land Surveyors United Members</a> <a href="http://surveyearth.com" target="_blank">Survey Earth in a Day</a>. This year will be our 6th celebration.</div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left;"> </div></div><div style="color:#1d2129;font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left;"> </div></div><div style="color:#1d2129;font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left;"> </div></div><p> </p><div style="color:#1d2129;font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left;"><strong>Takeaway and Give Back</strong></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left;">If you have a lot of content which has not been categorized or recollected into linktrees, you are simply missing out on all of the traffic you could and should have- would have, if you did. elink.io is not the only web service out there allowing you to curate collections of links. It is, however, the most versitile and (as a student) the cheapest to manage, in my opinion.</div></div><div style="color:#1d2129;font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left;"> </div></div><div style="color:#1d2129;font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:left;">Building a community doesn't happen over night.In fact, it shouldn't.You do not need a lot of third party add-ons to make your site attractive, but you will have to do work outside your community to bring new members in.. You simply must put in the time and effort if you hope for a community to form. The way your site is designed and layout is tuned will be an ongoing experiment for the entire life of your community. For this reason I have always tried to help save time by <a href="http://creators.ning.com/members/JFarrow/content?type=DiscussionEntry&context=all">sharing tips</a>. In order to build a sustainable community, you must get to a place where your members feel comfortable and think of your place built for them when sharing that photo or tip or guide on the community you built for them. Progressive enhancement is the human way to increase relevance of your community for search engines, social graphs, bots, algorithms and yes, humans. You can do this for your community by channeling the traffic back into the network and reintroducing relevant content to those new members and visitors which might find it and the dialogue which occurs useful even five years in the future..</div></div></div>RE: BLOG TAB ON MY PROGRAMhttps://creators.ning.com/blogs/re-blog-tap-on-my-program2017-01-25T17:59:47.000Z2017-01-25T17:59:47.000ZSanta Normhttps://creators.ning.com/members/SantaNorm<div><p>I'm a little embarrassed to ask but I need to get this fixed. For sometime now we have had our blog and forum on the Main Page. I decided to remove it from the Main Page and have members click on a Tap that says Blog and another that says Forum. Well I have the tabs, the original blog and forum  are stil on the Main Page BUT I just get a blank when I click on the Tab I created. I have no idea how to fix this, can anyone help me out?</p>
</div>Ning Creators invited to become partners of our Lott-O-Luck networkhttps://creators.ning.com/blogs/become-lott-o-luck-partners2016-12-14T23:23:16.000Z2016-12-14T23:23:16.000ZCharles Lewishttps://creators.ning.com/members/CharlesLewis209<div><p><a href="http://lottoluckgame.com/partners" target="_blank"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1868475?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="350" class="align-center"></a>Attention <strong>NC's</strong>!</p>
<p>If you sell a product or service from your <strong>Ning Network,</strong> we invite to become a <strong>Lott-O-Luck Partner</strong>.</p>
<p>There is no cost to <strong>NC's</strong>. However, you are required to give away <strong>one</strong> of your company's products/services as a prize in our new <strong>Lott-O-Luck</strong> game </p>
<p>In return for each prize you sponsor, your business will enjoy the following benefits:</p>
<ol>
<li>Boost in exposure</li>
<li>Boost in visibility</li>
<li>Boost in traffic/patronage</li>
<li>Boost in sales/income</li>
</ol>
<p>For more information, visit or ning network at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://lottoluckgame.com/partners" target="_blank">http://lottoluckgame.com/partners</a></p></div>110+ Useful Ning Tips and Tricks for 2.0 and 3.0https://creators.ning.com/blogs/110-useful-ning-tips-and-tricks-for-2-0-and-3-02016-12-07T21:27:02.000Z2016-12-07T21:27:02.000Z⚡JFarrow⌁https://creators.ning.com/members/JFarrow<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2233568?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>The best part about running a community on the Ning platform is the endless possibilities for changing and tweaking just about ever aspect of the platform. This is what has always kept me interested. This is what is exciting about cultivating a community. You can always make the platform adapt more and more to the culture of your members. This is what your member expect, after all. They want to see something new everytime they log in. It is up to you to provide that.</p>
<p>Tips left for other Ning Creators get buried with time, so I developed a method to resurface those good ones for another round of help. A while back I showed you <a href="http://creators.ning.com/forum/topics/megaload-of-ning-tips-tricks-and-hacks-over-200" target="_self">over 200 Ning tips</a> that I had scraped out of my own profile discussions dating back to 2007. There was quite a bit of garbage in there so I have gone through those and picked out around <a rel="nofollow" href="https://elink.io/9ac35" target="_blank">110 tips which are still relevant</a> and have compiled them <a rel="nofollow" href="https://elink.io/9ac35" target="_blank">into a collection for you</a>. You can simply learn something new every day from these tips alone. So, if you think you have done all you can do to make your network the best it can be, i am here to show you that you still have much to do. Here is the PDF of the link collection for download as well. </p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/559044?profile=original" target="_self">Ning-Creator-Tips-Tricks-Hacks-JFarrow.pdf</a></p>
<p>If you need help with some aspect of your Ning community or would simply like to redesign or build your network, <a href="http://creators.ning.com/members/JFarrow" target="_self">reach out to me</a> and let's discuss it. It may be much simpler than you think. I also have a form that you can fill out for <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.jbfarrow.com/projects/ning-help" target="_blank">private help here</a>. Good luck and by all means, be creative!</p>
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<p><a href="https://elink.io/9ac35" target="_blank"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/558886?profile=original" alt="Ning tips collection" width="100%" class="align-full"></a></p></div>Silly Simple Solutions #1: Doing stuff with PDFshttps://creators.ning.com/blogs/silly-simple-solutions-1-doing-stuff-with-pdfs2015-10-12T03:13:49.000Z2015-10-12T03:13:49.000Z⚡JFarrow⌁https://creators.ning.com/members/JFarrow<div><p>Silence is silly. So,i'm gonna try something. This is the first in a series of posts that I plan to make featuring simple solutions to best ways for how-tos and so on related to managing your Ning network and doing silly things which seem so silly that you feel silly for not thinking of it yourself earlier. Yes, <a href="http://creators.ning.com/forum/topics/tip-tell-members-about-pdf-download-with-css" target="_blank">PDFs make me silly</a>. And so this is how i avoid silliy and get serious with PDFs...</p>
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<p><strong><span class="font-size-4">How to Embed a Silly DOC, PDT, eBook, PPT, PPTX, XLS, etc. into a Page or Post on your Network</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="font-size-4">1st...upload a file using the blog post toolbar, like so</span></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/558376?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/558376?profile=original" width="657" class="align-full"></a></p>
<p>If you wanna embed a PDF file (ebook, doc, ppt, xls, etc.) the best solution i have found (which stands the test of time) is the good old Google Docs Viewer. The code you want to use is as follows:</p>
<p><iframe src="http://docs.google.com/gview?url=<em><strong>http://api.ning.com:80/files/Sry...YOUR...FILE....../09_USVI.pdf</strong></em>&embedded=true" width="100%" height="350" style="border-style:none;" ></iframe></p>
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<p></p>more soon..</div>TIP 3.0: How to change your header banner image automatically after every 20 seconds or suit to your time preference?https://creators.ning.com/blogs/tip-3-0-how-to-change-your-header-banner-image-automatically-afte2015-04-19T06:31:13.000Z2015-04-19T06:31:13.000ZBernard Lamahttps://creators.ning.com/members/BernardLama<div><p>How to change your header banner image automatically after every 20 seconds or suit to your time preference?</p>
<p>Step 1: Create your HTML page. <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/830758754?profile=original" target="_self">Sample HTML page</a>. This page will display as a custom header banner image.</p>
<p>Step 2: Copy and paste the following code into notepad and add your <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/830758754?profile=original" target="_self">custom HTML/IFRAME page.</a></p>
<p>Step 3: Copy/paste the entire code into CUSTOM CODE (End of Page Code)</p>
<p>You are done.</p>
<p>Download <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1868455?profile=original" target="_self">HTML sample code</a></p>
<p>Live example <a href="http://ksnonline.ning.com/" target="_blank">click here</a></p>
<p>If there is any issue while implementing this tip, feel free to ask me.</p>
<p><strong>If you would like to go beyond this tip or looking for any kind of help, feel free to contact me bernardmax2@gmail.com</strong></p>
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<p><!-- Ning3.0 AUTO CHANGE HEADER BANNER IMAGE BY bernardmax2@gmail.com--><br> <div id="BL_ads_within_contents" style="display:none;"><br> <p style="text-align:right";><br> <iframe width="970" height="160" src="<strong>http://YOUR_HTML/IFRAME_PAGE.html</strong>" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><br> </p><br> </div><br> <script type="text/javascript"><br> if (typeof(x$) != 'undefined') {<br> x$(".header-siteNameLogo").prepend('<div id="insidecontent"></div>');<br> var within_contentsCode = document.getElementById('BL_ads_within_contents');<br> var insidecontentCode = document.getElementById('insidecontent');<br> insidecontentCode.innerHTML = within_contentsCode.innerHTML;<br> }<br> </script><br> <style><br> #insidecontent {<br> margin-left: -8px!important;<br> width: 970px;<br> height: 5px;<br> }<br> </style><br> <!-- Ning3.0 AUTO CHANGE HEADER BANNER IMAGE BY bernardmax2@gmail.com--></p>
</div></div>Tip 2.0& 3.0: How to Make Your Iframes Full Screen and Responsivehttps://creators.ning.com/blogs/tip-2-0-3-0-how-to-make-your-iframes-full-screen-and-responsive2014-07-05T22:12:34.000Z2014-07-05T22:12:34.000Z⚡JFarrow⌁https://creators.ning.com/members/JFarrow<div><p><em>Who wants full screen, responsive Iframes solution for their Ning Site?</em> I know I have for a while. What I am going to show you all today is something I've been trying to figure out for around 5 years, but finally sat down and hammered it out. This solution works for both Ning 2.0 and Ning 3.0 Networks, but in slightly different ways. You can use it to embed Member maps (maps in general), other pages, Google Sites, you name it! I'll go through both so that everyone can give it a try regardless of the platform. Let's Begin.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-6">Full Screen iFrames for Ning 2.0</span></strong></span></p>
<p>In order to make this work, you mist be adding an iframe to a Page (can be a page in a group) because they have the option of adding code to the <head> of page. You'll want to first add this block of code to that "Custom" section.</p>
<div style="background-color: #ffe4e1; padding: 3px;">
<br> <meta charset="utf-8">
<br> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
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<br> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<br> <script>
</div>
<div style="background-color: #ffe4e1; padding: 3px;">
document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].className = "js";
<br> </script>
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<br> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1047752?profile=original">
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<br> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1047790?profile=original" media="screen" type="text/css" />
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<p>Now you'll want to add this code to your actual page inside the text box, replacing the red url with the one you are iframing into the page:</p>
<div style="background-color: #ffe4e1; padding: 3px;">
<br> <script type="text/javascript"> document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].className = "js"; </script>
<br> <div class="wrapper"> <div class="iframe"><iframe src="
<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">http://yoursiteiframe.com/index.html</span></strong>">
<br> </iframe>
<br> </div>
<br> </div>
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<br> <script src='http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2265035?profile=original' type="text/javascript"> </script>
<br> <script src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2265054?profile=original" type="text/javascript"> </script>
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<p><span class="font-size-5"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://landsurveyorsunited.com/page/video-categories" target="_blank">Demo Using a Google Sites Page</a></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5"><a target="_blank" href="http://landsurveyorsunited.com/page/video-categories"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1868463?profile=original" alt="Full width Iframes for Ning 2.0" width="100%"></a></span></p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span class="font-size-6">Full Screen iFrames for Ning 3.0</span></strong></span></p>
<p>Now in 3.0, as with most things related to code, it is much simpler to get it working with less headache. Take a look at this full block of code which can be added to one HTML module inside Sites & Pages or as a custom page inside a Group.</p>
<div style="background-color: #ffe4e1; padding: 3px;">
<br> <p><link rel="stylesheet" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1047752?profile=original" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1047790?profile=original" media="screen" type="text/css" /></p>
<br> <meta charset="utf-8" /><meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
<br> <meta name="description" content="" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
<br> <script type="text/javascript"> document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].className = "js";
<br> </script>
<br> <div class="wrapper">
<br> <div class="iframe"><iframe width="100%" height="240" src="
<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">http://yoursiteiframe.com/index.html</span></strong>"></iframe></div>
<br> </div>
<br> <script src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2265035?profile=original" type="text/javascript"></script>
<br> <script src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2265054?profile=original" type="text/javascript"></script>
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<p><span class="font-size-5"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://awtg.org/wine-map" target="_blank">Demo of Full Screen Iframe Map from Fusion Tables</a><br></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5"><a target="_blank" href="http://awtg.org/wine-map"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1868581?profile=original" width="100%"></a></span></p>
<p><em>And there you have it!</em> Responsive Full Width Iframes for your Ning networks.</p>
<p><em><strong>Please Note:</strong></em> The file upload button seems to be giving me some trouble over here on creators and sometime the formatting of the code gets messed up when copying from a blog post, so if you <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.jbfarrow.com/ning-tips/fullscreenresponsiveiframesforningnetworks" target="_blank">head over to this post</a> on my project site, you can <span style="text-decoration: underline;">download the TXT version of this code at the bottom of the page</span>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.jbfarrow.com/ning-tips/fullscreenresponsiveiframesforningnetworks"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1868623?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"></a></p>
<p>I look forward to your feedback and seeing your version. If you are in need of help setting up your Ning network, <a href="http://creators.ning.com/members/JFarrow" target="_self">send me a message</a>. Happy to help!</p></div>Tool: Static Google Map Generator with Embed Codehttps://creators.ning.com/blogs/tool-static-google-map-generator-with-embed-code2014-05-08T16:00:00.000Z2014-05-08T16:00:00.000Z⚡JFarrow⌁https://creators.ning.com/members/JFarrow<div><p>If you want to give your members a tool to use for showing where their posts and content are geolocated, here is a tool for you. Use this <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.beautifulnationproject.org/channels/mapping/map-generator" target="_blank">static map generator tool</a> to create an embed code for adding maps to your posts, pages and groups or virtually any post on Ning 3.0 networks using this tool. <strong>Code is below for adding your own to a site. </strong></p>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.beautifulnationproject.org/channels/mapping/map-generator"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1868501?profile=original" width="100%"></a></p>
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Code for Adding Google Maps Static Map Generator to Your Site. Just plop the following HTML into a text box on a page if you'd like to allow your members to generate a static map code for their posts.
</div>
<div>
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<div>
<iframe name="mapgenerator" width="100%" height="700" style="border: 0px #FFFFFF none;" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/11490544?profile=original" marginheight="0px" marginwidth="0px" frameborder="1" scrolling="yes"></iframe>
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<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.beautifulnationproject.org/photos/daintree-stranglerfig" target="_blank">Example of a Post With Embedded Map</a>:
</div></div>Migration to Ning 3.0 - Demo and Q&A Recordinghttps://creators.ning.com/blogs/migration-to-ning-3-0-demo-and-q-a-recording2014-05-07T19:36:02.000Z2014-05-07T19:36:02.000ZCrystalhttps://creators.ning.com/members/CrystalC<div><p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6JmFm-gtWnU?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>
<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/94229337">Ning 2.0 to 3.0 Migration Webinar</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/ning">Ning</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<p>Last week, we hosted our first Migration Demo and Q&A Webinar. Thanks to Juliet for her awesome Demo and to everyone who attended. There were a few technical glitches, but we worked some of those out for the recording and we'll definitely be taking your feedback on things we can improve on for the next webinar. </p>
<p>We'll also be following this up with a post late this week answering the questions we didn't get around to during the hour, so stay tuned for that. </p>
<p><strong>Resources</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://hc.ning.com/contact/upgrade/index.php" target="_blank">Migration Request Form</a> - When you're ready to migrate, request it <a href="http://hc.ning.com/contact/upgrade/index.php" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ning.com/ning3help/what-to-expect-when-youre-migrating/" target="_blank">What to Expect When You're Migrating</a> - a high level look at migration.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ning.com/ning3help/setting-up-your-ning-3-0-network-post-migration/" target="_blank">Setting Up Your Ning 3.0 Network Post-Migration</a> - Tips for how to review and set up your new Ning 3.0 Network.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ning.com/ning3help/content-that-can-be-migrated-to-ning-3-0/" target="_blank">Content That Can Be Migrated to Ning 3.0</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ning.com/ning3help/content-that-cannot-be-migrated-to-ning-3-0/" target="_blank">Content That Cannot Be Migrated to Ning 3.0</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.ning.com/pricing/" target="_blank">Ning 3.0 Pricing</a> - Information about pricing plans for Ning 3.0. You can also find more information in this <a href="http://www.ning.com/ning3help/create-a-ning-network/" target="_blank">Help Center Article</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://creators.ning.com/page/ning-3-0-the-re-imagining-of-our-product" target="_blank">Ning 3.0 Hub on Creators</a></p>
<p><a href="http://creators.ning.com/page/ning-3-0-faqs" target="_blank">Ning 3.0 FAQs</a></p>
<p><a href="http://creators.ning.com/faq/upgrading-to-ning-3" target="_blank">Upgrading to Ning 3.0 FAQs</a></p>
<p><a href="http://creators.ning.com/page/product-roadmap" target="_blank">Product Roadmap</a></p>
<p><a href="http://creators.ning.com/page/ning-3-0-feature-improvements" target="_blank">Requested Feature Improvements</a></p>
<p><strong>Bonus Resources</strong></p>
<p>I mentioned <a href="http://www.pixelmator.com/" target="_blank">Pixelmator</a> (paid app download) and <a href="https://www.canva.com/" target="_blank">Canva</a> (free web app) as good programs for making a default cover photo for your network.</p>
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