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For Creators and Admins: Easy Way to Create a Community Status Report

You've may have read my tips and tricks related to using the RSS feeds of your community to help members find other sections of your site and recieve updates with new content when it is updated.  (I'll put those links at the bottom of this post)

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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:

td {vertical-a

Trick: Perfect Combination for Bringing Your Community Into a Facebook Page

If you are looking for a way to push RSS feeds from your Ning Community into a custom tab on your facebook page, this is the perfect combination, using just 2 apps.  This should take you between 10-15 minutes to get perfect.  Here we go....

First go t

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

RSS Feed for a Group? Comment wall?

Hi All!I'm wondering if there is a way to get the rss feed for a comment wall? or is it possible to get an rss feed for any new content added to a group including the comment wall???Just wondering if there is a way to get notifications sent to email

Add Some POWr to Your Ning Community

Are you ready to add some POWr to your Ning Network or any other site you administrate? Last week, I literally fell out of my chair when I discovered what is quite possibly the coolest web service to date mega- plug-in, add-on for any community.. So,

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

How to Get Google to Recognize Sitemap

So sadly there isn't any information about Ning 3.0 Sitemaps and  the  sitemap.xml route does not work in Google Webmasters so our only solution I could find at this moment is adding sitemaps through RSS feeds.  I posted a Sitemap Hack a few years ba

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

TIP: Add Video Feed for Relevant Tags To Groups RSS Module

To some this may seem obvious but i see plenty of NCs who have no idea what to do with their RSS feed modules within a group. I mentioned once before how to hack a Bing search URL to create a feed to input into that module, but i think we'll all agre

Make Any Web Page An RSS Feed

just came across this site, pretty cool idea for your network /pages. since any pages you create (yournetwork.com/page) do not have a built in rss, you can make it one, or any page on the net without an rss feed, you can make it one and place on your