Announcements from Ning

More Latest Activity Feed Improvements: What's New with "Top News"

If you follow along with the announcements here on the Creators Network, you'll know that we've been making gradual improvements to the Activity Feed since we revamped it last summer. Most recently, we added Sharing and Liking capabilities directly i

Now Live: A New, Improved Chat

Some

Changes to the Ning Terms of Service (TOS)

Today, we're making two changes to our Ning Terms of Service (TOS) related to the acquisition of Ning by Mode Media (formerly Glam Media), a company that helps connect online publishers (like yourself) with top brand advertisers. As we stated in our 

Sharing and liking now appears in the Activity Feed

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, be

Introducing Social Integration and Top News

We're excited to announce some new improvements to your Latest Activity Feature. These improvements are currently in Beta — instructions for enabling them on your site are at the bottom of this post.

First, you can now integrate your Twitter and Fac

Chat coming, and we want your feedback

Update: Please provide feedback on how popping out chat should work, asked here.

If you've looked at the Ning product roadmap recently, you've noticed that some Chat improvements are on the way. We've started to work on Chat, and wanted to share wha

Latest Activity: I want more, more, more

Hi all, I'm excited to announce an improvement to the Latest Activity feature — you will now see a "More" button at the bottom of the feature to access older items from the feed.

Clicking that button will load another set of items, giving your member

Another set of text editor improvements, ready for tryout

There are few things nearer and dearer to Network Creators than the text editor, which you and your members use to post blogs, add comments or message each other on your Ning Network.

We've upgraded the text editor a few times, most significantly in

Innovative ways school teachers use Ning today?

Hi Ning Creators!

We are in the process of creating a "Greater Than You" program which will be featured in our Ning Resource Center to highlight the amazing things accomplished through community.

I'm interested in finding out how school teachers in t

Search members by email address!

Network Creators, administrators and member moderators spend a lot of time on the Member Management pages. Between answering questions, assisting members or suspending people from your Ning Network, it's like

Exciting News About Ning + Mode Media

Today, I’m excited to announce some great news for Ning and our customers. We’ve signed an agreement to be acquired by Mode Media (formerly Glam Media).

Mode Media (formerly Glam Media) pioneered connecting the world’s top brand advertisers with targ

Updates to Aviary

Just a quick note to let you know that this afternoon we made a small update to the Aviary Extension. Now Network Creators and administrators have the option of using Aviary to edit member's profile photos. Administrators will only have this ability

Language Settings for Groups, now on Ning!

Do your members speak multiple languages? Make them feel right at home with a new feature now on your Ning Network: Language Settings for Groups.

With Language Settings for Groups, group creators and admins can choose the language for particular g

Google +1 Share Button: Now on Your Ning Network! More Controls Over Sharing

Do your Facebook and Twitter sharing buttons need some company? Now, add Google’s “+1″ share buttons to every piece of content on your Ning Network, with a single click. Google’s +1 buttons “let people who love your content recommend it on Google s

Now live: View counts on blogs and discussions

Starting today, you and your members will have a new way to judge the popularity of discussion or blog posts. Just as photos and videos display the all-time number of views, so will discussions and blog posts.

This should provide a great new way to

Are you a K-12 teacher in California using Ning in the classroom?

Hi Ning Creators,

Let me first introduce myself. I'm Christina from Ning's Marketing Team. A reporter at California Watch (http://californiawatch.org) is putting together a report on the use of Ning / social media in classrooms.  If you are a K-12

New: Longer URLs

Hi Creators,

A couple of weeks ago we released the ability for you to customize the urls of most types of content in your network. A few minutes ago we bumped up the length of these urls from a maximum of 30 characters to 65 characters (with the exce

Find out who is, and isn't, receiving emails on your network

Just last week, we added a new column to your member export spreadsheet that allows Network Creators to see the last time each member visited your Ning Network. Now, that same spreadsheet is about to get even more useful, telling Network Creators who

Now Live: Add content straight from the Activity Feed

Updated: This feature was released Thursday (8/4/11) morning Pacific time.

On the heels of our launch of the improved Activity Feed, we're pleased to report that you and your members will soon be able to post content directly to the Activity Feed

Save discussions from being deleted

Your network is full of healthy discussions, with many contributors joining in after each discussion's creator. For a long time, the discussion creator has been able to delete their own discussions whenever they like, taking potentially countless rep