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Greetings all,

I've got a question, and I'd like to get your input. I'd be especially interested if you developed your Ning community as an alternative to a previous communications platform your members were using.

Briefly, here's the situation I'm

Hack To Embed Facebook Videos Into Your Ning

As we all know, ning has made It quite simple  to embed Youtube videos, but how (you might ask yourself) can you embed Facebook videos on your ning network. Facebook videos have links to share the Facebook video on your wall or to your friends wall,

My tip: highlight cool features to your users

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Here's a little thing I do that helps draw user interaction. I highlight certain features of the site on the main page.

Here's my site: http://www.technicalwritingworld.com

In the left column, check out the sections titled Don't Be Blue, D

TIPS: MUSIC SITES, A SIMPLE WAY OF INVOLVING ARTISTS TO BECOME MORE INTERACTIVE

I was trying to find an alternative to the Original Music Player on Ning (Which I Still Have Access To) as far as artists, djs, producers with their music. I installed the Soundcloud App, which we know acts real weird on the front page, on the music

Status Update On Home Page - Make It Stand Out! UPDATED: September 1, 2011

This CSS will help make your "Status Update Box" stand out better. If you're a member of JenSocial, you can see it in action here: http://jensocial.com

These effects are added behind the box, not to the box itself. I wanted to keep it simple and eleg

I finally found a use for Blogs

Blogs have not been very popular on my site, usually a post there was confused with a forum post and vice versa.   I looked through my forums and blogs to find a common topic to better define what the blogs should be.     I am going to use mine for p

TIPS: Remove unnecessary words in main page, keep it clean and more readable

There are already too many information and words in the main page. So keep it clean is the best way.

Before:

After:

See what's different? Feels like play the game that point out the  differences of two images. :)

The answer is:

We all know what

Monetizing Your site With Ads? Implement This Contest Idea To Increase Page Views & Quite Possibly, Your Income!

Hi Folks! 

 Here is another off the cuff idea to help your networks succeed. We know contests can really engage your members, such as "Best Photo" "Funniest Video" or "Add-A-Caption", but I've never seen anyone suggest this idea......

A SCAVENGER H

PunchTab Rewards - How To Change Rewards Button

I recently installed the PunchTab Rewards, and so far I love it! What about you? There's been a lot of discussion about PunchTab on Creators, and in fact, probably the place I heard about it first. This is a very simple tip on how to change the defau

I Have Removed My Facebook "Like" Button. If You Want Your Members' Friend's To See Your Content, So Should You

NOTE: The facebook like and share buttons only work to their full potential of promoting actual content IF  your network is FULLY PUBLIC. Private networks and those set to Public/Show Only Main Page  will ONLY SHOW YOUR NETWORK NAME AND DESCRIPTION N

Broadcast Message Template

I just thought I'd share my broadcast message template that i send every week. You'll notice it's very similar to the Weekly Digest here on Creators :-)
However, I just wanted to say that the In Focus, Featured Member and Sponsors are paid-for elemen

afraid of losing new members if their membership requires approval? Implement this tip and leave a great first impression!

Hi folks!

 This is something I've wanted to do since I went to an approval only status on new members. I was always afraid of losing people with the withdraw request  link that comes up with the notification, but the spam complaints by current member

TIPS: Put thinking bubbles in the latest activity of your main page

It's very interesting to change the status background in the latest activity. Especially in the main page. I changed it to thinking bubbles. :)

You can see the real result here.

To do this, you need a small image and CSS3 supported browser.

EASY WAY TO ARCHIVE YOUR MESSAGE BROADCASTS!

I've heard MANY people who want a way to archive their message broadcasts....well, there is a simple way, just not ON the network, but this is still a great way to do it......i use gmail, and it has a feature called "labels". Other emails may have si

What is the best way to get new members on a budget

I have a ning network and it looks very nice and ive been on with this idea for a couple of years now and it worked on other providers but i always perfer ning so i moved here but im finding it hard to get new members onsite!

Ii have tryed to use a

Greatly Reduce Your Member's Spam Complaints

Hi guys n gals,

 Something that just hit me in responding to another member's spam woes. If you go to your dashboard, and under Settings  go to Email,  you have a couple options there that are easily overlooked as being able to help you prevent your

Questions regarding saving vlogs and pictures

Hello. I am new here and very happy to have found you all. 

I have a very serious problem that prompted me to connect with this group.

One of my "members" on my social network has been having someone delete all of her videos, blogs, etc. on every l

Customized Landing page after log-in

Did you ever think of an idea like taking your members to a specific page after they have successfully logged-in to your site? Say for instance taking them to a promo/contest page after log-in? or on a page where you introduce new stuffs or announce

Great Photo and Image Editors for you or your Members!

I've been offering pixlr Editor for images and photos for a while within my Toolbar and Menu. It dawned on me, what a great tip to share with fellow NCs! If you don't have Photoshop and want to use the Editor for your own editing purposes, this is a

Scroll Bar for Events on Home Page

Scrollable Events / Scroll Through Events On Home Page

The CSS in this little tip will add a vertical scroll bar to your Events module on the home page. Adjust the scroll bar height: If you have selected "List View" and only have 3 events selected,