Members Not Receiving Emails

Are 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

2 Secret Things I learned today about Ning Communities

After 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

Anyone Else Migrate from N2 to N3 and missing Search Results?

I'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

Share your N3 Landing Page Design

I'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

A Couple of Improvements I'd Like to See on Creators

I 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

Quick Hack of Language Translator on Ning Words and Placement (code included)

If 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

How Are Others on 3.0 Handling Sitemaps?

Seems 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..

Trick N3.0: How to Change the Color of Your Green Ning Bar with CSS

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

Tip 2.0 or 3.0: Small SEO Tip for "Popular Videos"

Just 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

TIP N3.0: How to Fix Your RSS Feed Imports with One Line of Code

When 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

10 Ways To Know Your Community is Toast

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

Question: Anyone know how to display group subnav as compact with 'More' button?

Scratching 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?