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How To Spread A Network Like Wildfire, Part III: The Right People First

In many cases, The Right People First is an easier and more common path to creating a wildfire network than One Great Piece of Content.

It’s totally your call as to who are The Right People for your network. That’s the beauty of your own social network. You have the freedom to do anything you want with it.

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How To Spread A Network Like Wildfire, Part II: One Great Piece of Content

It is not an exaggeration to say that Funny or Die is the best example of a social network that was created with One Great Piece of Content.

Unlike The Chronicles of Narina on YouTube, Funny or Die was no accident. It was constructed. That’s what makes it beautiful to you and me. You don’t have to be Will Ferrell to do it. You just need to be paying attention.

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Watermarking Your Videos & Photos

I don’t want to say that I have a “favorite” feature of your own social network on Ning. That would be like saying you have a favorite child.

But one of my favorite features of your own social network on Ning is the ability to customize your flash video player and flash photo slideshows on your social network on Ning.

You can watermark them so they look like this video from the Offshore for San Francisco Surf & Happenings:

Or this video from American Idol Fan Central:

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Brenda Peterson
Brenda Peterson

Website builder Boxmode to merge with community-building platform NING

NING, a leader in the customized social media niche, is set to absorbBoxmode in January 2022.

In October 2021, Boxmode and NING announced a partnership wherein the website builder will leverage NING’s headless CMS solution to develop membership and blog functionality. Since then, close collaboration between the two teams has revealed an opportunity to join forces and mutually aid in each others’ development.

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Natalie Lesyk
Natalie Lesyk

Social Media Goals Every Business Should Measure

We’ve seen social media growing from a simple way of keeping in touch with people towards the important weapons in the marketing stream to achieve social goals. It is foreseeable to use social media goals examples to look for the competitors and achieving your best to set up the desirable social media goals and objectives for your team. You need to stick to a well-devised plan to achieve success in social media world.

As a marketing expert, I’d like to share the practically implemented social media goals for helping the team for attaining the best things. Social media goals for business are measurable and you can begin in the most appropriate way to build up strong and workable strategies.

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Brenda Peterson
Brenda Peterson

Social: In the Veins of Your Ning Community


At Ning, we’re all about social. It’s in our veins. We play well with others like Twitter and Facebook; and we focus on how other services like them can best be implemented into the Ning Platform to give you a seamless and awesome experience for building and contributing to a Ning community, and sharing content elsewhere.

We encourage Ning Creators to take full advantage of other social platforms as they build a social strategy and online presence to reach their goals. Here are 8 ways your Ning community works with other social platforms, making your Ning site an integral part of that strategy:

Adding Social Sign-In to your Ning site allows people to sign-up and sign-in with their social identity on Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo!, WindowsLive and LinkedIn. It’s 1 less login account to remember, and allows for 1-click access and engagement. Learn more.

 

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Brenda Peterson
Brenda Peterson

How to Increase Activity in Your Community

The majority of communities struggle to sustain high levels of activity in their communities. We typically only hear about the rampant success stories. It’s fun to believe that a community will just attract members and explode to life.

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How to Grow an Online Community (Recorded for Those Who Missed It)

This week, we held the second webinar in our series with Richard Millington, one of the most respected voices in the field of community management. The first one was about increasing activity, and it was definitely the most successful webinar Ning has ever held.

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Brenda Peterson
Brenda Peterson

20 Conversation Starters That Will Get Your Community Talking

Are you struggling to stimulate activity in your online community? Do you have lots of members but little participation? Try asking the sorts of questions that stimulate discussion in every online community.

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How User Guidelines Help Your Community

Online community guidelines detail the types of behaviors that are and are not appropriate on your community. They include things that some might consider obvious, but they also include items that are somewhat unique to you and your community. I liken an online community to a country. Each country has culture, laws and social norms that make it different from every other country.

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Brenda Peterson
Brenda Peterson

How to Deal With Antagonistic Members

Many community managers are either too slow or too fast to remove antagonistic members. They either remove the antagonistic member without fully realizing the role this individual plays within the community, or they spend copious amounts of time trying to convert the antagonist into a happy member.

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The Importance of Design in Marketing Your Brand

Design and marketing are the two major interlinked terms for the potential increase in business and marketing. It is a challenge for the business owners to get all the aspects of business growth aligned in a right way. Unique concepts and best designs are sold by the high-end companies to make an impact on most of the audience.

Your client is closely watching over your company’s logo and tagline. They will remember you by the design of your website or brand logo. Indirect apprehension of your brand, which doesn’t show the actual ROI generation schemes, can receive the pushback. Digital marketing professionals understand the value of design marketing. It is impossible to get the required results from your website without choosing the appropriate digital marketing strategies. With Ning, you can take advantage of the independent creation and management of your online community.

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