Current status of the Ning Platform is always available on the Ning Status Blog.
The text editor, used across many parts of your Ning Networks, has just been revamped with some fixes and improvements.
As many Network Creators have pointed out, the text editor on the Pages feature can add u
Read moreEarlier this month, we announced the ability to customize the URL of a Page on your Ning Network. Later today, we're bringing that same functionality to other types of content, like photos and discussions.
As before, URLs will be automatically bas
Today, we’re making Pages a lot more powerful for Plus and Pro networks. Pages have always been a great way to add useful content to your network like a list of resources, community guidelines, or an embedded third-party application. Following on fro
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
Today we’re releasing the first round of updates to the way Pages work in your network. We know that Pages are an important way for many of you to add custom content to your network, and these changes are designed to increase the options you have for
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Over the past year, we started doing something new: publishing a public Product Roadmap for our customers. This is a way to follow along with what we’re working on right now, what’s coming next, and offers a quick glance in the rear-view mirror to
I’m excited to announce several major improvements to how we support you with questions and issues as you launch, grow and manage your communities on the Ning platform. Over the last six months, we’ve made significant investment in customer service.
Read moreToday, we’re rolling out a new Ning Extension: Ustream. Ustream lets you record and broadcast video with just about any camera — including one you may already have built-in to your computer. The Ustream integration with Ning is designed to be easy to
Read moreFresh 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:
[Note]: This release is now live.
Groups are about to get a whole lot better.
Later next week, we'll be rolling out a slew of improvements to the Groups feature, one of the most popular features on the Ning platform. We're doing this based directly
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,
Starting today, administrators will have another great tool to add to their community management belt: Deleting a member.
For years, administrators and Network Creators have been able to suspend unwanted members. This allowed them to prevent these pe
Read moreAnother popular sign-up option will soon be available on your Ning Network. Along with signing up via Facebook, Google or Yahoo, Network Creators will be able to allow members to sign up and sign in with Twitter, starting later today.
The addition o
Read moreI'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
