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Last Week I showed you this
But now I have a bit of code to share with you for finding members in your community by US State
Just download the following text file > Open it in your te
Read moreI've shared a lot of time savers in the past and I see quite a few other NCs using them but never say anything. If you use this let me know. It can really enhance your Advanced Search feature.
You may remember this
If you are on Ning 2.0, you may remember I posted this waaaay back.
This is an update for those who are on Ning 3.0
I hope to save you all some time with this tip. Below you will find 4 text files, e
Read moreJust ran across this new addition to the dashboard.... Unique Page Descriptions!
This is incredibly valuable and as anyone who cares about their Search Engine Optimization will tell you it is much needed. I didn't see any sort of announcement for t
Read moreIf you recently migrated from Ning 2.0 to Ning 3.0 you may have discovered that your Attachments on Forums inside Groups may be missing. In the future, this may we worked out, but in the meantime, this is what I am doing to remedy.
About your missin
Read moreCommunities 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
Read moreI was playing around with Glideapps and put together this little app for finding tips and tricks and for asking questions about how to do things with your Ning Community
Give it a try and if you like add it to your phone's home screen to reach out a
Read moreAre members supposed to receive an email when they have been promoted to Admin of a group? If not, why? Shouldn't a member get notified when they have been promoted?
I've asked a few members and they do not recieve a digest or any notification whe
Read moreAfter over 13 years and experience with all versions of Ning, i too become often reminded that are more things to learn about this platform. Here are 2 things I learned just today while building out my community's annual event, International Surveyo
Read moreI'm just curious if anyone else out there migrated from 2.0 to 3.0 and are now missing search results pages. Specifically, are you ever getting more than one search results page?
As you can see from my 2.0 when i search for a specific term I get tho
Read moreI've been thinking about creating some video tutorials for how to use the new Landing Page Builder so I wanna start a new discussion about Landing Page Design and see what others are doing to improve their landing pages. You can see my current landi
Read moreI have just a couple of improvements that I'd like to see on Creators Network which should not take much time at all to integrate.
Search with Results ordered by Time
Presently all results when I search show posts going back to 2010 and across all Ning
Read moreIf you're like me you believe your top of screen real estate to be very important.. and adding google translate can occupy a little too much, especially for mobile users. This is why the default google translate element is too long. Here is how w
Read moreSeems like a major oversight to me but Ning 3.0 does not have a sitemap feature. This means we must create our own and seat it inside the site to get it recognized. How are others handling this? Would like to see what others are doing..
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I must say that one of the only annoyances that I have found about 3.0 is the color of the Ning Bar (no offense Ning, just clashes with my community color scheme). So yesterday I decided to inspect it and found that with a single little block of cod
Read moreJust a small tip for the weekend. Go to Language editor and look for Popular Videos
Now change it to something more geared for your community subject matter like - for example - Popular Surveying Videos or Popular Dog Videos something better for yo
Read moreWhen 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
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Communities online can die a slow...... uneventful...... death. If you are wondering whether or not yours is on the brink of failure, here are a few ways to know.
But first I should mention that the majority of communities started online are short-liv
Read moreScratching my head and thought I had this sorted out once before but I am trying to figure out how to have my group subnavigation display in compact fashion like categories on feature pages..
Any ideas?
We all have the same problem and in this case the same opportunity to shine.
Use your language editor to fix this. Go to your language editor and search for the following phrases, one line at a time. Change them to say something more inviting... yo
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