Announcements from Ning

Scheduled Maintenance on Wednesday, March 27 [Resolved and Updated 3/28]

We will be performing some planned maintenance on the Ning Platform on Wednesday, March 27, from 10pm-1am Pacific Time (that's 0500-0800 GMT on March 28). During this time, all Ning Networks will be offline and will display branded maintenance pages.

How to Monetize Your Online Community: Recording Now Available

When people think about monetizing a website or online community, they often think about display advertising – and for good reason. It is a mature medium with many companies and services that exist to support it. But there is so much more! This w

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Ning Talk #4: "The Science of Community" Ready for Viewing

The recording of our fourth Ning Talk with Richard Millington is now available for online viewing.

Watch The Science of Community to learn what makes your members tick. In this hour long webinar, Richard explained how to build a sense of community,

UPCOMING WEBINAR: "The Science of Community Management"

Community Management Webinar #4: The Science of Community Management 

When: Friday, March 1, 2013, 10 a.m. Pacific time

Were excited to announce another sure-hit Ning Talk with Richard Millington. In his first webinar for Ning, Richard talked about

ChipIn Discontinues Service

This news will only affect existing ChipIn customers. 

ChipIn.com, which started in 2005 as one of the first easy way for individuals to raise money collectively, has merged with InMobi and will be discontinuing its services beginning on March 7th,

Scheduled Maintenance on Wednesday, February 20 from 10pm-2am

We will be performing some planned maintenance on the Ning Platform on Wednesday, February 20, from 10pm-2am Pacific Time (that's 0600-1000 GMT on February 21). During this time, all Ning Networks will be offline and display branded maintenance pages

Facebook App Updates

New Developer Alert: February 2013 Breaking Changes

If a New Developer Alert arrived in your inbox, you'll want to update your Sign-up and Sign-in App on Facebook. Don't worry--It's easy! 

You got the note because Facebook is doing away with Authen

Ning Talk #3: "How to Effectively Moderate an Online Community" - Recording Now Available

The recording of our third Ning Talk with Richard Millington is now available for online viewing.

Watch "How to Effectively Moderate an Online Community" on our Vimeo page (or above), and let us know what you think! Feel free to suggest topics you'

Upcoming Webinar: "How to Effectively Moderate an Online Community"

Community Management Webinar #3: How to Effectively Moderate an Online Community

When: Thursday, January 24, 2013, 9 a.m. Pacific time

You all know that moderation is about far more than removing the bad stuff -- to better define the process, we go

It's time to brag about 2012

The Ning Advocacy team has followed some of your networks for months and some even years now. Though we periodically hear from you and keep an eye on Creators, we'd like to reach out and ask: "Hey, how's it going?"

As we get closer to the end of the

Update On Unplanned Maintenance

We recently experienced two unplanned outages on the Ning Platform: the first on Thanksgiving evening, November 22, and the second yesterday, November 27. We know that near-perfect up-time is what you’ve come to expect from Ning, and we wanted to let

Scheduled maintenance on Friday, November 16

We will be performing maintenance on the Ning Platform on Friday, November 16, beginning at 10 PM Pacific Time. During this time, all Ning Networks will be unavailable for approximately 15 minutes.

We've been proud to offer a consistently high uptime

Privacy Policy feature

Last week our team was able to squeeze in a quick feature that some of you had requested. You’re now able to write a Privacy Policy for your network.

You’ll f

Introducing New Sign-up Options

Our Product Roadmap this year is rolling along smoothly. Today, we're happy to be releasing another project that we think will be very useful: a whole bunch of new sign-up and sign-in options. Let's get right to it.

Let Members Join with LinkedIn and

Detail Pages for Status Updates

Since our initial revamp of the Activity Feed, we've been steadily improving it and adding more based on Network Creator requests. One of the biggest requests has revolved around status updates. For a long time, when someone would post a status updat

Activity Feed update: interface clean-up

We're still adding to the Activity Feed. The most recent batch of changes involved the beta release of RSS feeds into the mix.

Today, we've completed something we've been working on for a while: some clean-up of the interface. Just to be clear: This

Now Live: Member Categories & Badges

Not too long ago, we laid the groundwork for our member categories feature by streamlining the management of your existing and prospective members. Now, we're almost ready to roll Member Categories out, and we wa

Beta Release: Include RSS Feeds Directly in Your Network's Social Feeds

Following up on our recent release of Twitter Search in Social Feeds, I'm excited to let everyone know that we have added the ability to add RSS feeds to your network's Activity Feed. You might be asking, "How can this help me?" Well, if you have a W

Product Roadmap: What's Next

Last year, we did something a little different than we have in previous years: We published a public Product Roadmap. It was a big success. It bolstered direct customer-company communication, and it really helped Network Creators know what was coming