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What has been your best traffic generator on your network?

A video recently posted by one of my top members generated a huge amount of traffic for us, the reason was that it was widely shared on Facebook and it was a perfect fit for our niche.

What has been the single busiest post in terms of views for your

Problems displaying photo thumbnails - a solution

Just managed to solve a problem I had with the photo thumbnail display on my network. It's a really simple solution so no need to kick me, cos I already have.

The Problem: 

Photo thumbnails were showing as a row of 4 then a row of 1, then a row of

Do you have a 'WHY USE' page?

Hi all,

Sometimes the simplest of things can escape us NCs. It recently dawned on me that I didn't have a page detailing exactly why people should sign up. This was partly because i was letting the site evolve to a point where I could determine mysel

3 special CSS TIP !! JUST copy&paste into custom code!!

Hi, there :D

I got question about CSS, so I made the CSS-TIP "allanista" !!

This TIP include 3 Special Effects!!

1. Special Design Studio!!
   DesignStudio will be transparent-mode When move the cursor away.
   you can see more cleary !!
2. Speci

Hack for Using Videos to Drive Group Involvement

Quick and Dirty..i am going to show you a quick hack which allows you to use a video to encourage participation in a group on your ning network.

Here's the scenario:

~Let's say you have a new group on your network called Total Station Talk (like I

How to Create a Chrome Extension for your Network

If you use Google Chrome as your browser, you may be familiar with Extensions. Google describes them as"Extensions are extra features and functionality that you can easily add to Google Chrome. By using extensions, you can customize Google Chrome

Tips for Finding or Removing Spammers

Hey Guys,

Just went through some of my members and discovered some interesting patterns that helped me remove a bunch of spammers, here's my suggestions and tips from the experience. 

PREVENTION

Tip #1:  DO NOT have contests that involve only people

Weekly newsletter for your members

Hello all !

Here is the newsletter wich is automatically sent to my members, every week.

If you want some details, you can go on my blog to read the story ; it's now in french, but i'm planing to translate it in english soon...

Language Editor Tweaks for Invalid Slugs

Sometimes your i's aren't dotted and your uncrossed t's are all screwed up.  You thought you linked to that group properly but you didn't.  All a member sees is your mistake with a "We're Sorry".  For example, if you have a lot of groups that you lin

Simple but powerful way to create interaction on your network.

Greetings,

I run a site called http://hhoinformation.com it is for hydrogen research. I had an issue where sometimes people would post a discussion but it would go unanswered. So I decided I needed to give members a way to preview content without ha

brand recognition how often is your site searched for by name?

everyone knows keywords are important  to traffic, finding the right keywords to bring in traffic is great but do you also have street cred? brand recognition? are you being talked about in schools and offices and even on the street?

brand recogniti

Increase Twitter Mentions with Language Editor

Something that gets me a lot of followers on Twitter is having my Twitter username in Tweets from my site content, and I make this easy for members by changing something in the language editor:

Look for Checking out "%1$s" on %2$s:

And replace with

Style Ning's New Chat Box!

Suggested by dreadlockssite, I played around with the look of Ning's new Chat Box via the Creators.ning.com site. I haven't installed the new Chat on my site for various reasons. I will soon. So, I have not tested this CSS on a live site yet. Anyone

Simple yet Elegant Side Menu

This simple yet elegant side menu was inspired when I browse the new youtube theme yesterday. You can view it in action here.  Hope you enjoy it when using in your network.

Simply copy the code below and paste it in your network's module.

Keep MailChimp list synchronized...

Hi all NCs!

If you're like me and you use MailChimp to manage your email campaigns and newsletters, I suggest you take a look at my blog. You will find it a php script I wrote to automate the import of network members in a MailChimp list. You can use

NCs Let's Help Each Other's Klout- A guide to Klout

There was an attempt at a discussion made here about network creators and Klout, but it didn't seem to go anywhere, so I am going to briefly describe to you what Klout is and how we, as a community of Network Creators can help one another's influence

Have any Network Creators had a member Meetup?

I was wondering if any Network Creators has had or is planing on having a Member Meet?

All the members of my social network http://criterscorner.ning.com had a member meet just this past September. We chose to rent a couple lodges at a KOA Camp groun

Tips for Those Using External CSS Files

I recently had a friend ask me to take a look at his site, which was not loading so well in Internet Explorer. I took a look at his code and noticed that he had tried to call 43 external stylesheets in the ... section of his webpage, which remin

New Google Analytics - realtime is awesome

If you don't have Google Analytics or have not looked for a few days they have just introduced real time view.In one word, it's awesome.You can now see how many people are on your site at this moment, the changes when you tweet or Facebook something

A good way to get donations.

Donation buttons generally only work under three circumstances:

1. You are not obviously making money from the content of your website in any other way.

2. The stuff you do is of high-quality, above and beyond the norm.

3. You don't promote the ex