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Sharing and liking now appears in the Activity Feed

Posted by Evan on December 1, 2011 at 2:25pm

Members can share content on your Ning Network to a multitude of sites, from Facebook to Digg. This gives your content new sets of eyes, and gives you new potential members. However, when sharing happens, that activity is hidden from most members, because the rest of your members don't know anything was shared.

Starting today, sharing will now appear in the Activity Feed. Every time a member shares content to any of the services we support (check out /main/sharelinks/edit on your dashboard), an event will appear in the Latest Activity Feed. This also includes Network "Likes", Facebook Likes and Google +1's.

Not happy with this? You have the ability to customize your Ning Network's Activity Feed, including turning these events off. Simply head to the "Features" page in your Dashboard and click "Activity Feed" (or go to /main/activity/settings on your Ning Network). Uncheck the "Sharing and 'Likes'" box, and these events will be hidden:

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Chloe Prince December 13, 2011 at 1:59pm

Please add LIKES to Blog, Forum and Profile Comments. This is the highest requested thing I have on my network!
Heaven's Disciples December 9, 2011 at 8:05am

This is a great feature, but... thanks for making available the ability to disable Sharing and 'Likes' in the Activity feed!

I had set up my RSS feed to post automatically to my Twitter account. This would have caused an endless loop of each activity posted onto my RSS feeds.
- Heaven's Disciples > Heaven's Disciples December 9, 2011 at 8:08am
  
  I've disabled it, but it's still re-posting my member' activities from my Twitter account.
  - Heaven's Disciples > Heaven's Disciples December 9, 2011 at 8:42am
    
    Fortunately, the Sharing and 'Likes' messages haven't re-posted to my Twitter account, for some reason. So, no posting loops have been created, thus far.
Gusk December 8, 2011 at 6:25pm

Hi,

I switched on the new function that displays my network's Twitter account tweets in latest activity but it is associated with my profile and I want to switch it to my 'network generic profile'. For the life of me I cannot work out where I set this up.

Can anyone help? Thanks
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  - Gusk December 9, 2011 at 10:10pm
    
    Thanks Eric.. that was hidden!
    
    My mini problem with it is that is pulls in the tweets but associates them with my profile (avatar pic) and not a generic account one or pulling in the avatar of the Twitter account itself. So it looks like there is a lot of me me me me going on.
    
    Anyway, thanks for helping me find it and switch it off the moment.
Joe December 8, 2011 at 6:14am

can ning start to provide statistics on the number of eg facebook shares and likes per member?

also ranking of members based on the above
Ian December 5, 2011 at 11:36pm

Anyone else not seeing the favicon or the network logo for media players since the recent network downtime?
Jhens Calderon December 3, 2011 at 6:42am

Wow thanks for another good job Ning team! Congratulations!
Manuel France December 2, 2011 at 8:30pm

Great news

I don't find the shared on... on the language editor...??? where can I modify those sentences???
Thanks