You can Now Verify your Ning with Bing

Due to my recent frustrations with verification options, I've been writing the developers at Bing over and over about this and although i cannot take credit for this recent breakthrough i must share that you can now verify your ning network with Bing

Important Twitter Tip for Outgoing Tweets

A while back I showed you how to

Change the Out-going Twitter Text for Shared Items

and after clicking on the tweet option (for example on a group) it would look like this:

Now That's The Wrong Way to Do It.

But today I am going just a tab bit

Embedding QR Codes Using Native Ning Features

A few months back I showed you how to Add a QR Code to your Ning network the correct way.  Today, I am going to expand on this tip just a little more by sharing a simple trick that I discovered which may make your QR Coding life a bit easier.

Take

Disable Right Click Using Jquery on your Ning

Are you sick of right-clickers?  Me too.  I'm gonna show you the short and sweet of how to disable right click on your ning using a jquery code. You can also use this code to add a custom context menu to your site, but we won't go into that here at t

How To Add Google PlusFeed To Your Ning RSS Module

Its a simple little hack which may go a long way.  Go to your Google+ Public Profile (using Firefox is easiest and make sure your GooglePlus profile is set to public) and look in your browserbar for the RSS Icon on right:  Click on it

After you clic

FREEBIE #1 Magazine Style CSS Template for Ning Pages

I've been working on a project for a client which you'll all be most interested to see when I'm finished- basically a magazine-style build out on a Ning.   One of my tasks this week was to create various magazine style templates that are compatible w

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

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,

Add Cafepress Store to Your Ning Without Using Ning App

If you're not too fond of the Cafepress Ning app but would like to add a cafepress widget to your site, here is how to effectively do that.  You can get the Cafepress widget here.  You will not be able to add it successfully to a page or note without

External Links Donkey Punch

Ok, earlier today I showed you how to make all of your external links open in a new window using Jquery.  I did this to see how many of you are interested in where your traffic goes.  Now I am going to show you something that you are going to LOVE.  

How-to Launch all external links in a new window with jQuery

Wanna know how to make all external links on your Ning open in a new window, everytime?  We'll here's how you do just that.

Add this to your custom Code box (if you're Ning Plus or Ning Pro)

<script type="text/javascript">
 jQuery(document).ready

How to Give Your Ning a Really Fake Voice

 This is the link you're looking for: BalaBolka

I am using this embed code:

<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.odeo.com/flash/audio_player_standard_gray.swf" width="400" height="52" allowScriptAccess="always" wmo

Create a More Exciting "Featured" Email With Language Editor

This is a quick tip for those of you who are focusing on member engagement.   When you feature a particular piece of content such as a photos, discussion, video or blog post, the member who posted it receives an email with the following subject line:

How-To Move Entire Leaderboard to Home Page Hack

Just for fun, I tried something out on my test network today which may be of interest to some NCs out there.  Did you know that you could move your entire Leaderboards page to your home page?   Its pretty simple actually....think of it as many text a

How to Create Search Feeds in Bing with a Simple Hack

There are many reasons for why you might like to create a search feed for your network.  For example, inside groups you have a RSS module which you might like to keep updated on a particular topic.  I've been doing this for years using the RSS feed

Where to Get Google +1 Buttons

I know I know..everyone is talking about how Google's +1 is a facebook "Like" killer.   Ahhh...but do you know where to get these buttons for your Ning?   I'll Show you....

First you should go here to enable the + experiment from Google Labs.

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Styling Groups with New Design Studio with CSS and a Swift Hack

I really should keep this a secret, but this just may be interesting enough to piledrive me right into the Superstar category, so I'll share it (hint hint)...I am going to show you how to add a new background to groups when using the new design studi

How-to Control Number of Member Profiles on Member Page Using CSS

There are several reasons for the want to customize the number of profiles which are displayed per page on the Members Page of your ning network.  For example, if you have only One column of members (image#3), visitors to your site who are interested

How To Add a QR Code To Your Ning the Correct Way

A QR Code

A QR Code (Quick response) allow you to display an URL readable by a mobile phone.   Using Google Maps and Goo.gl URL Shortener, I am going to show you how to inset a QR code into your ning in the correct way.

A Practical Example.

Ch

How To Add Your Chrome Web App to the Web Store

Last week I showed you how to create a Google Chrome Web App for your Ning Network here:https://creators.ning.com/forum/topics/howto-create-a-google-chrome#As promised, here are the instructions for how to submit your web app to the Google Chrome Web