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Tip: Create Self Updating Content Widgets for your Community

You already know how to automate content posting to blogs and social media pages. If not, read this first: 

Amazing Tool to Automate Your Content Discovery, RSS and Sharing Community Content

But, we have more aces up our sleeve. RSS Ground allows you t

🤖 Trick : Create a Community Mirror | ɹoɹɹıW ʎʇıunɯɯoϽ

If you ever wondered what your community looks like in the mirror, here you go: :oƃ noʎ ǝɹǝɥ 'ɹoɹɹıɯ ǝɥʇ uı ǝʞıן sʞooן ʎʇıunɯɯoɔ ɹnoʎ ʇɐɥʍ pǝɹǝpuoʍ ɹǝʌǝ noʎ ɟI

Ning Community |   Mirrored Archive

This trick is the opposite of what I shared in this las

Tip: Build a Directory and Import It Into Your Community

Over the years, many Ning Creators have asked me the best way to build a directory for their community.  True, you can build it inside your community using Ning but you may not want the public to come into your community to find listings.   Take for

Tip: How to Add a Google News RSS Feed or Widget to your Community

Communities create news but it is always a good idea to mix with the outside world.  If you run a niche community, it is a good idea to stay on top of what is going on in the world related to your community.  One way to do this is to pull in relevant

TIP N3.0: How to Fix Your RSS Feed Imports with One Line of Code

When you import an RSS feed to a page on your community, does it look like this?

Pretty ugly if you ask me.   But if you add the following line of code to your Design studio, everything will align nicely like so:

This is the code you use:

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Amazing Tool to Automate Your Content Discovery, RSS and Sharing Community Content

Most of you who know me already realize that I LOVE RSS!  I love to use RSS feeds for both finding news as well as distributing news from my communities into social media environments.  This new tool that I found absolutely rocks when it comes to pus

Work Around for Importing Facebook Page RSS Feeds

We once were able to use FBRSS.COM to grab the feeds of Facebook Pages we follow. What FBRSS did was simply parse the RSS feeds on Facebook and then they generated new RSS feed URLs on their own server, but that no longer works. There were some cool

Hack: How To Get RSS Feeds From Google +

Around this time last year I shared a Hack for getting RSS feeds from Twitter and I must admit it was a little too techy for many NCs on the network.  I promise that this one will be much easier.

Because Creators activity is wonky presently and seems

RSS Tip: How to Find the Perfect Feeds For Your Network

My favorite go-to spot for finding RSS feeds around a particular topic would have to be http://ctrlq.org/rss/ because of the ease of use and infinite combinations of searches which can be made.

For example, if you plug in something like the follow

Time Saver: Your RSS Feeds for Location Tags on Ning

I hope to save you all some time with this tip.  Below you will find 4 text files, each with RSS feeds for major locations around the world, geared to pull all content which has been tagged on your network for the location names.  Simply open the TXT

Hack: Get RSS Feeds for Twitter

Twitter is permanently retiring the Twitter API v1.0 sometime later this month and, to the end user, what it means is that all the existing Atom and RSS feeds of Twitter will stop working once the old API is turned off. With API v1.1, Twitter has com

Top News and new RSS Feed - I finally found a use

This may have been obvious to some, but I just figured this out.

Once the new Beta Social Feed was released, I finally figured out a way to utilize Top News.  

The options for Top News are: posts by Creators, posts by Featured Members or posts by Adm