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Introducing Activity Feed Improvements, Including Member Status Updates

Today we're pleased to release a set of improvements to the Activity Feed feature on Ning 3.0 networks. The updated Activity Feed allows members to view older items in the feed, and to view new items that have appeared since they loaded the page. We've expanded the capabilities of Social Feeds so that you can have items automatically added to the Activity Feed via RSS and Twitter. We've added a status feature, so that your members can leave status updates in the feed, and we've added link…

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363 Replies · Reply by Donna Mac 12 hours ago

Forum

Upload a photo from your profile ?

Hello :) right, I know I' asked this the other day and John told me how to do it, but I' cant seem to find the discussion :/But basically, I want the "upload a photo" feature on a member's profile, instead of needing to see everyone's Photo in the…

Started by Luke Jones in Ning 3 Tips and Tricks

2 Replies · Reply by Luke Jones 6 hours ago

Is there a way to make money with my Ning without using Ad's ?

Hello :) So.... I know its a bit of a weird question compared to the ones that are normally on here ahaBut Is there a way to make money with my Website, and not have to see all Ad's on my network ? :)

Started by Luke Jones in Ning 3 Tips and Tricks

2 Replies · Reply by Luke Jones 6 hours ago

Hopefully we'll have a music player and other stuff soon :)

Hello :) So ..... My ning network is doing good at the moment, I'm happy with the way it's striving along, I've re-designed it and I've finally found a design that I'm happy with, and more importantly the member's have given me good feedback on it…

Started by Luke Jones in Ning 3 Tips and Tricks

2 Replies · Reply by Luke Jones yesterday

please help ?

Hello :) So ..... My messages aren't showing up in real time, I have to refresh the page to see I've got a message, is there a way I can fix this ? something in the css maybe ? Thank you :)

Started by Luke Jones in Ning 3 Tips and Tricks

2 Replies · Reply by Luke Jones on Saturday

Another question :P

Hello :) So Every-time I post a question, I forget something :L the thing is, When people message each other in the private messages, It shows them load E.g I've been messaging my mate Jamie, so I've got an inbox off him, then another inbox…

Started by Luke Jones in Ning 3 Tips and Tricks

4 Replies · Reply by Luke Jones on Saturday

Help!!

Hello :) Just a quick question, I've recently re-designed my website, Now I've changed the size of the body text to 16 px, that's the perfect size for the comments, But the actual status update is too big for my liking,, when I change the body text…

Started by Luke Jones in Ning 3 Tips and Tricks

2 Replies · Reply by Luke Jones on Thursday

I forgot this question

Hello :) So I just posted a forum post, and I forgot to mention this question :L Something I did have, Scarlett did help me with this, but I've just edited My design and I forgot to save the code :/But I need the code, that allows you to change the…

Started by Luke Jones in Ning 3 Tips and Tricks

3 Replies · Reply by John Bizley on Wednesday

a quick question

Hello :) Just a quick question, When my member's are uploading a photo, they have to see every other member's Photo's, Is there a way to move the upload a photo feature to members profiles pages? maybe something on the custom css ? :) Thank you :)

Started by Luke Jones in Ning 3 Tips and Tricks

3 Replies · Reply by Luke Jones yesterday

Get a bigger profile image

Here is a quick little tip if you want to have a bigger profile image in your 'my page', if you want to see how it looks here is an example http://1940s-socialnetwork.ning.com/members/UserTestAccount And here is the little line of code to do that…

Started by John Bizley in Ning 3 Tips and Tricks

2 Replies · Reply by John Bizley on Wednesday

A Tip For Member Cover Photos: Allowing admins to change it but not members

This was asked by jean luc lebouteiller which I added the tip there but thought it might be worth a mention here too. Ok lets say you have set a default background cover photo for your member pages but would not like to have your members change it…

Started by John Bizley in Ning 3 Tips and Tricks

9 Replies · Reply by George H. Compton IV Feb 24

Blogs

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Tip 2.0& 3.0: How to Make Your Iframes Full Screen and Responsive

Posted by JFarrow on July 5, 2014 at 3:12pm in Content Creators, Custom Code, and Design

Learn how to make your embedded Iframes open in Full Screen in a Responsive manner for both Ning 2.0 and 3.0 Networks

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Tool: Static Google Map Generator with Embed Code

Posted by JFarrow on May 8, 2014 at 9:00am in Content Creators, Custom Code, and Design

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 static map generator tool 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. Code is below for adding your own to a site.

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Migration to Ning 3.0 - Demo and Q&A Recording

Posted by Crystal on May 7, 2014 at 12:36pm in Ning Staff Blogs

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. Read on for the video and additional resources.

How To Help Members Overcome Their Fear of Participation

Posted by Crystal on April 30, 2014 at 10:54am in Engaging Your Community

Members need both the motivation to initiate and to overcome their fear of starting a discussion. Their motivation to initiate will be to either learn something (e.g. "Does anyone know how to....?"), to impress others (e.g. "does anyone else think business class travel isn't as great as it used to be?" or to bond with others (e.g. "I'm upset Kelly got fired from the Apprentice").

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Getting Started

Welcome to Creators!

This is the space where Ning Network Creators come to discuss anything to do with managing their Ning communities. From how to get members more engaged and active to best ways for implementing a feature on your network, it's all here.

What's Up with Ning 3.0

PROJECTS THAT THE NING 3.0 TEAM IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON:

Activity Feed Updates - options for more content in the activity feed.

APIs - The ability to create new members and content programatically.

For more information on what's next, visit the Product Roadmap.

The Feature Prioritization Survey is now closed. Thanks for your feedback and we'll be reviewing the responses and releasing a report in early May.

Activity

Strumelia replied to Jorge Vila's discussion Events

"People have been asking about this for two years. Nobody knows the answer, and Ning will not say. Maybe next month, maybe never."

Strumelia replied to Jorge Vila's discussion Adm Roles

"People have been asking about this for two years. Nobody knows the answer, and Ning will not say. Maybe next month, maybe never."

Strumelia replied to Jorge Vila's discussion Facebook Invite

"People have been asking about this for two years. Nobody knows the answer, and Ning will not say. Maybe next month, maybe never."

Thomas Hoey replied to JFarrow's discussion Terrific New Custom Search Engine Option: Swiftype

"Star rating is real nice.
Am open to suggestion where to place it, but my concept is to train folks now coming on...to use it to search all our sites, rather than just browsing. Towards top of site would be best??"

Strumelia replied to Strumelia's discussion How can I get RID of all blogs on my 2.0 ?

"Thanks for your response.
Seems crazy to not be able to delete a feature, huh?"

Luke Jones replied to Luke Jones's discussion Upload a photo from your profile ?

"Alright :) , No problem :) Um... I've asked other people but they don't seem to know :s ,Thanks John :)"

Fire-Tech replied to JFarrow's discussion Terrific New Custom Search Engine Option: Swiftype

"Sure thing, I'm assuming you want it to float on the side and not in a module? Screen shot or tell me the rough location you want it to be and I'll help you out. Looks like you are using my star rating tip too. I wish they were all that simple :)"

Luke Jones replied to Luke Jones's discussion Is there a way to make money with my Ning without using Ad's ?

"I've tried that, it' worked well for like a month :/ plus I feel cheeky aha"

Writer Chick {Diane} replied to Strumelia's discussion How can I get RID of all blogs on my 2.0 ?

"I had the same issue with the 2.0 Forum. I have never liked the forum on our site. It was always misused. I remember at the time I contacted support and asked how I could get rid of it. They told me to do exactly what you did: just "hide" it so it'…"

Strumelia replied to Strumelia's discussion How can I get RID of all blogs on my 2.0 ?

"Nobody knows how to do this, or if there's a setting?"

Strumelia replied to Mary Jane Peterson's discussion New Site with 3.0

"Plural is: parties
Singular is: party

And no way I'm clicking on that unknown url."

Thomas Hoey replied to JFarrow's discussion Terrific New Custom Search Engine Option: Swiftype

"Am using Swiftype and love it. www.carnytown.com. Had a minor problem over verifying my email adddress and got an immediate call from Sunny at Swiftype who found a spelling error (go figure...high tech, right?) and solved the problem. Seem like good…"

John Bizley replied to Luke Jones's discussion Upload a photo from your profile ?

"Hi Luke, sorry not got back to you on this but at this time my computer system is down, doing this on my tablet for now. Once I get things up and running again I will see what I can come up with. Maybe in the mean time some others may come up with s…"

John Bizley replied to Mary Jane Peterson's discussion New Site with 3.0

"One of the things I noticed first was the very long website address, this really needs to be shorter. The next thing is the content you are going to be using, I would really look into this as it might go against NIngs terms of content. Just thought…"