Adding facebook Open Graph Tags to the Ning platform?

I have still not gotten this to work on any of my non-Ning websites, but assuming this works would it be difficult to add this to the Ning platform?

Ning could give us a page within Dashboard - facebook integration where we could fill out the facebook open graph tags and it would then be part of our meta tags.

Couldn't hurt traffic right? :)

this: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like

Open Graph Tags

Open Graph tags are <meta> tags that you add to the <head> of your website to describe the entity your page represents, whether it is a band, restaurant, blog, or something else.

An Open Graph tag looks like

<meta property="og:tag name" content="tag value"/>

If you use Open Graph tags, the following six are required:

og:title - The title of the entity.
og:type - The type of entity. You must select a type from the list of Open Graph types.
og:image - The URL to an image that represents the entity. Images must be at least 50 pixels by 50 pixels. Square images work best, but you are allowed to use images up to three times as wide as they are tall.
og:url - The canonical, permanent URL of the page representing the entity. When you use Open Graph tags, the Like button posts a link to the og:url instead of the URL in the Like button code.
og:site_name - A human-readable name for your site, e.g., "IMDb".
fb:admins or fb:app_id - A comma-separated list of either the Facebook IDs of page administrators or a Facebook Platform application ID. At a minimum, include only your own Facebook ID.

More information on Open Graph tags and details on Administering your page can be found on the Open Graph protocol documentation .

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Chappelle on February 9, 2011 at 5:38pm

I don't understand the technical aspect of what you've documented here, but I can appreciate its practical application. I like the idea.

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Permalink Reply by Brian Floe on February 10, 2011 at 2:40am

Yeah, I have not made it work yet on either of my Non Ning websites, I'm just assuming Ning can make it work on our networks :))

I'm also not entirely sure what it does for us but it sounds like it improves our chances of being found on facebook, which is almost more important than Google these days. And becoming even more so every day.

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NC for HirePermalink Reply by JFarrow on December 18, 2012 at 3:04pm

if only they'd give us access to the <head>

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Permalink Reply by Eduardo Figueroa on February 11, 2011 at 12:37pm

I like this

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Permalink Reply by Ken Mawbey on February 21, 2011 at 12:14am

Hi Brian - did you get a response from Ning on this. I've asked them to provide a way to put a meta tag required for Facebook Insights registration of domain, but have not had a response from them yet

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Permalink Reply by Brian Floe on March 13, 2011 at 6:36am

Sorry I did not see your reply until now Ken. Ning has not seen this thread it seems, no. And I would also very much like to know what they think about it. Is it a "gold mine" for us all perhaps? :)

Please share if you get a response from Ning!

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan Devine on September 6, 2011 at 11:19am

bump

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Permalink Reply by Stygo Alphamatt on December 18, 2012 at 4:43pm

I guess this is what you are talking about,

I implemented it for my network and having been trying to make it work with no sucess. I tried a lot of process like calling it like a stylesheet, loading it on the file manager and finally left it on my custom code box. It has to be on the html head of our network to funtion.

I have been a member of facebook developers group since and while and the three most important advantages in my opinion is that visitors could easly know what our sites are all about, sencondly visitors will be able to interract more with our page as it is possible now and more interraction means more traffic. Thirdly and lastly we could be able to add more plugins from facebook and style it better as it is now, like the "like", send" buttons etc.

I have already 2 apps on fb for my network but still much limited, if ning could let us add codes direct to the <head> </head>then we could use it in our networks, i ran through some self build webs using this, so am genuinely interested on what ning has to say on this.

I really wish to get this working on my network.

hey ningteam, what's cooking?