How to Map Your Members on a Ning Network
Just made an updated tutorial for Mapping your Network Members.. check it out!
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Just made an updated tutorial for Mapping your Network Members.. check it out!
If you run a satellite group on Facebook for your Ning community, this tip is for you. You can now grab a embed code for your group and paste it inside a page on your community or inside a message broadcast.
It looks like this:
Communities 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 moreIf you have been looking for a simple way to add typographic effects to your headings, titles, etc. here is a tip for you. NOTE: This tip is for NCs who have imported Google Custom Fonts into their networks.
Most of you who know me already realize that I LOVE RSS! I love to use RSS feeds for both finding news as well as distributing news from my communities into social media environments. This new tool that I found absolutely rocks when it comes to pus
Read moreI'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
Read moreAre you ready to add some POWr to your Ning Network or any other site you administrate? Last week, I literally fell out of my chair when I discovered what is quite possibly the coolest web service to date mega- plug-in, add-on for any community.. So,
Read moreSo sadly there isn't any information about Ning 3.0 Sitemaps and the sitemap.xml route does not work in Google Webmasters so our only solution I could find at this moment is adding sitemaps through RSS feeds. I posted a Sitemap Hack a few years ba
Read moreWhat I am going to show you is how to have a manageble system for adding different background images to different groups using a little bit of CSS code and a dropbox account. This is a revisit to an old dropbox tip I post a long time ago.
For this
Read moreBack in 2010, I showed you how to map your members on Ning 2.0, but this process needs a little bit of updating.
What you are making...
Perhaps you are trying to give members a way to (facebook) like several different pages on your site all from the same page.
Or to put it another way....Often, people want to put more than one Like and Share buttons on the same web page. For example,
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 moreI've written plenty on CSS for your Ning network before, but today I'm going to show you something simple. I'll show you how to give a layered paper look behind any aspect of your site that you like. To start simple, let's try adding it to a text
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 moreWay back in 2018, I shared this with you.
Today, I'm going to share an entirely different version which is even easier to manage. This one is great for community announcements.
See the Pen Pure CSS Ticke
Read moreThere is a new custom search engine I've been testing out called Swiftype. I figured I'd share because it is entirely customizable and completely awesome.
Great configuration options
Easy to install and includes auto-complete..
You can even sna
Read moreOver the past couple of weeks, I've had several other NCs ask me about CSS3 Box shadows, so i figured I'd give you all a few pointers I've learned over the past couple of years.
Understanding Values
Take a look at this example:
box-shadow: 3px 3pRead more
My favorite go-to spot for finding RSS feeds around a particular topic would have to be http://ctrlq.org/rss/ because of the ease of use and infinite combinations of searches which can be made.
For example, if you plug in something like the follow
Read moreIf you're like me, you like to educate your members on the ways of the modern world.
According to recent data from Net Applications, one-third of all Internet users in China still rely on Internet Explorer 6 to go online while in South Korea, I
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