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A few days ago, I started to write a post about a workaround that I found for embedding individual facebook posts into your site. However, I decided to wait and I am glad I did because Facebook released the official method of embedding facebook cont
Read moreLike many of you, I am always looking for ways to cover my bases and with the new 3.0 layout, here are 10 tips that you might like to keep in mind.
(via PSD blog)
Read moreIn attempts to change my own attitude, i figured I'd add a quick tip for how to add Pinterest Boards to your Ning 3.0 Network. What we will be creating is this:
Step 1. Add this code to your Custom Code (End of Page Code)
<script type="text/java
Read moreIn the past I have shown you a few QR code related Ning tricks, but today I am going to explain the way to add Multilingual QR codes to your site and how it could be useful to your international members.
Multilingual QR Codes Det
Read moreToday, with 3.0, building a responsive Ning Network means constantly testing how it displays across mobile and tablet devices. You could resize the browser yourself, or use a browser extension or tools within your IDE; but there is an ultra-simple to
Read moreIn the past, I have shown you some interesting tricks for embedding youtube videos into your site. For example, How to Embed without Youtube Logo and how to embed playlists (more at bottom of the post). Today I am going to show you 4 new tricks for
Read moreTwitter 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
Read moreOnce upon a time I showed you how to implement members only downloads of attachments to posts on your Ning Network. And today I noticed that the areas under posts for attachments might now be as attractive as they should be. In fact, maybe the defau
Read moreIf you want to build a thick video library on your Ning network, try out this tool Ive been using for over a year called Video Alerts.
Go to Video-Alerts.com and sign up, add keywords related to your network and when new videos hit the Youtube ind
Read moreIf you add and subtract CSS styles from your network frequently, you might wanna frequent this site/tool. Enter the CSS Trashman
The CSS Ratiocinator Trashman automatically refactors your CSS and generates a new stylesheet for your site. It works
Read moreHere's something that I discovered today which may make your life easier when trying to add music to your ning network, but cannot get around the upload limits. This solution will allow
Read moreI hope to only make a simple point here. I belong to and in many cases admin many Ning networks. This means I get broadcast messages from MANY ning networks. Some ning networks I get MANY MANY-far too many- broadcast messages, all with titles like
I read all sorts of complaints about the Music player on Ning networks, so I ran across something which may be interesting to you if you have been looking for an alternative way to display and play music on your network.
NOTE: This may require you
Read moreGroup layouts are just plain wacky. The middle column has always looked out of place, leaving a TON of white space surrounding other modules. If you are of a similar mindset, you may like to give your groups an entirely different layout. Look at t
Read moreSo i've been playing around with the Twitter Bootstrap framework, building new responsive pages for home, about network and otherwise. I just wanted to open a discussion regarding the possibilities of using Bootstrap in hope of discovering (or creat
Read moreWhat I have been showing you in detail is How to Hack the Welcome Email into a Getting Started Guide which translates into any language. Hack Part 1 Hack Part 2
Step 4: Upload the page you made to your server (or public dropbox public folder
Read moreOk, will only have the time and energy to put up a thorough description of Step 2 of this possible solution to automating the welcome email/ getting started guide... Hack #1 is over here.
Step 2: Install language translation into this page, so tha
Read moreOne of the first problems that Ning creators run into when they start getting serious about their community is sending a welcome email to every new member that joins. Somewhere along the line they start to get the feeling that someone out there has
Read moreActually, this tip could be used for adding related posts to Photos (example), Forum Topics (example) or Blog Posts (example). To be honest, using this method you could probably show related posts and pages for just about any feed on the network you
Read moreI've been working a lot lately with testing out different types of infographic engines in order to create visually appealing chucks of information to increase engagement. The one I like the most so far is Smore. This week, I built two different inf
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