Copy, Paste, Broadcast: Tell Your Members About Facebook & Twitter Integration with This Handy Language

[Eric Suesz]

We've just released our Facebook app, which joins our recent Twitter app as another way for you to use the power of social-media channels to grow your Ning Network.

When we release a new feature, we do our best to get the word out to NCs by blogging about it here on Creators and on the Ning Blog. But what about your members? How do you get the word out when you add a new Ning Network feature? If you’ll be installing the new Facebook app (or the recently released Twitter app), will you be passing along any information about it to your members?

We thought we’d give you some boilerplate copy you can use to send a broadcast message to your members. If you send out a regular broadcast message or newsletter, consider including it. Or, you could use this a jumping off point to get your members excited about sharing great content from your Ning Network on Facebook and Twitter.

Of course, you can always customize it (below) to fit your needs, but we hope this helps make it easy to keep your members informed and using all of the tools you've given them to their fullest potential.

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Announcing: Facebook Integration

New feature! We recently added Facebook integration to our Ning Network. Now you can share your favorite posts, photos, events, and videos directly on Facebook. Just look for the Facebook logo when you see something worth sharing and check the box before posting. You can share just about anything on our Ning Network.

Want to see what everyone is posting and sharing? We have a new Facebook page. Check it out!

Like Something You See? Share It on Twitter!

We're excited to let you know about our recent Twitter integration! On our Ning Network, we've cultivated a spirit of sharing, and one of the ways we do that is on Twitter. When we see something we think the rest of the world might find interesting, we send out a tweet with a link. We like sharing things on Twitter so much that we've now integrated it directly into our Ning Network. See something you want to share with the world? Click on the Twitter link to have it also post to your Twitter account. We hope you enjoy it!

Here's a walk-through video that explains how it works: http://bit.ly/63TViH

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Want to include logos with your announcement? I’ve attached these for you here as well, along with an example of how you might do it (top of this blog post)

facebook_logo.jpg

twitter_birds.png

[Fallon Shadowblade]

Thank you!

[Lora]

I really needed this info! :)

[Becca]

Thanks for creating text we can copy and paste! Very helpful.

[ZombieFreaks (NC)]

thanks. just updated members with it. :)

[Manny Hernandez]

THIS ROCKS!!!

[Garfield Creator]

This is really smart and makes education and use viral.

[Debbie]

Thank you so much for this information. It is really helpful

[Roby]

Simply------>FANTASTIC!!!

Well done!

[Kyle]

Just used it! Thanks! One note - if you copy the text directly and paste it into the broadcast field, be sure to remove the carriage returns before sending.

[Kyle]

I included this image in my broadcast -