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FYI - Survey Monkey has embed feature

I embeded a survey onto one of my network's pages and it works beautifully.   Embeding the survey instead of linking to it keeps members on your site and looks more professional.

I believe it would work in any text box, you can change the width, he

How Do You Deal With Support or General Questions? Do You Act All Superior?!

How Do You Deal With Support or General Questions?
I just added this to JenSocial, and usually like to space the two - - in regards to adding Tips. But, I thought this should be shared now.

When a member of your Social Network asks you a question, h

Public vs. Private Ning Sites?

Hi everyone,

I'd like to hear your thoughts on Public vs. Private Ning sites. If switching from Private to Public, is there an easy way to lock-down all member profiles automatically so they are not searchable by Google? Or does each person have to

How do you turn visitors into members?

We see it on Creators, and I'm guessing you might see it on your Ning Network, too. When we look at our Google Analytics, we see that there are lots of visitors who come to Creators to read, learn from other Network Creators and find out what's going

Do We Need Our Own Disclaimers & Terms

Do we need our own disclaimers & terms.I know it is easy enough to make a page with our own terms and disclaimers, but do we need to do this?I'm wondering if the links at the bottom of my network cover me and all of the content being created on my ne

What information must my disclaimer include to keep from being sued?

I started my network a couple months ago. Recently, one of my new members is someone who also runs a Ning network. She said that it is a very important for me to have a disclaimer so that I don't get sued for millions of dollars! I plan to contact my

How are you using Broadcast Messages?

Hi!Now that Ning supports HTML for broadcast messages and lets you send yourself a preview, are you sending more broadcast messages to your members? When have you found broadcast messages to be most useful and effective?I'm interested in any success

Share your Analytics lessons

So, I thought I'd kick off a topic sharing some of our Analytics lessons from the past couple of months. Here's how the # of visits for TuDiabetes looks like for October and November 2009:

In the screenshot from Google Analytics, you can see the d

Adding tags - need advice

I am working on optimizing content on my site ahead of opening up the content for Google to be able to crawl it. I have been going back to every blog post and image that members have added to try to add relevant tags that Google will find, but I real

increasing registration: keep all open or just homepage

I am wondering what everyone thinks about the pros and cons of keeping just the homepage visible for prospective members. My primary target right now is membership registrations and I do not know if it is better to keep the network closed so that peo

How do you promote your site on Twitter?

I've never used Twitter, so if someone could offer some advice it would be appreciated. How do you promote your site using Twitter?

Dealing With Difficult People Online / Trolls and Baiters

Wow, have I experienced every flavor of complaint known to man, in this arena. Difficult members can bring you down, if you fall into the trap. DON'T DO IT. I've found when you receive a complaint or hateful email from someone, never ever answer the