Current status of the Ning Platform is always available on the Ning Status Blog.
We're excited to announce some new improvements to your Latest Activity Feature. These improvements are currently in Beta — instructions for enabling them on your site are at the bottom of this post.
First, you can now integrate your Twitter and Fac
Read moreHi all, I'm excited to announce an improvement to the Latest Activity feature — you will now see a "More" button at the bottom of the feature to access older items from the feed.
Clicking that button will load another set of items, giving your member
Read moreUpdated: This feature was released Thursday (8/4/11) morning Pacific time.
On the heels of our launch of the improved Activity Feed, we're pleased to report that you and your members will soon be able to post content directly to the Activity Feed
Read moreHi all, with 60+ (!) pages of comments on our thread about the Activity Feed release, I know it can be tough for Creators to keep track of the latest news. So I wanted to send around this roundup.
As a Ning Creator, you have the ab
Read moreI'm excited to announce that the new Activity Feed, which we've previously talked about here and here, is set to go live early next week.
Here's a recap of everything that's in this relea
Fresh on the heels of the Spam Watchlist, we have a few more anti-spam tools to announce today.First, we've begun to block email notifications for suspicious profile comments. Spammers sometimes try to abuse comments on member profiles because they k
Read moreA few weeks ago, we announced a project to make the Main Page of your Ning Networks more interactive and engaging. I'd like to share our progress with you.
Here's a screenshot of the new Activity Feed in action, along with a Main Page status box:
Later today, we'll be releasing the Spam Watchlist — a new tool to help you fight spam.
This feature surfaces a list of people on your Ning Network that might be spammers, based on an algorithm that analyzes their content:
It's totally up to y
Your Main Page is the hub of your Ning Network — the page that gets the most traffic and the page most visitors see first. It's your one shot to wow newcomers, and it's the best place to engage your members. Over the next several weeks, we'll be intr
Read moreSince adding the Like Feature to Ning Labs in February, we've studied closely how Ning Creators are using it on their social sites. What we've found is exciting: 12,000 Ning Creators have already replaced the Favorite and Rate features with the Like
Read moreUpdate: This is now live!
I'm incredibly excited to report that we are putting the finishing touches on profile customization for the Ning Design Studio. We're looking to release it early next week.
Since launching the Design Studio in February,
I've posted about this in a few places, but I'll try to make one definitive answer here. If you all can help me point your fellow NCs to this thread, I'd appreciate it. Sometimes Creators is so busy that folks don't see our responses.
Why didn't N
Over the last few weeks, we've gotten incredible feedback from 500+ Ning Creators on the Ning Design Studio. Today, we're thrilled to make the Ning Design Studio available to everyone — you can enable it from the Ning Labs page.
Enabling the Ning De
