If your Ning Network is public, it will generate RSS feeds for everything from Latest Activity updates to Photos to Forum Discussions. You can use a Feed Reader (like this one from Google) to keep up with the action on your network. If you’re a member of multiple Ning Networks, this can help you keep it all in one place.
To add an RSS feed from your Ning Network to another website, just locate the content you’d like to follow. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the RSS icon (it looks like a radio signal), which will open up the feed.
You can copy the URL of this RSS feed. For a forum discussion, it looks like this: http://yournetwork.ning.com/forum/topic/list?feed=yes&xn_auth=no. You can get even more specific and follow only forum discussions from a particular category or even forum discussions with a particular tag.
Next, go to your external website or feedreader of choice. A good place to start is iGoogle, which is easy to configure and comes with a number of default feeds that will give you an idea of what you can use RSS for. To add a feed to your iGoogle, click the “Add stuff” link at the top right of the page.
Next, at the bottom of the left column, click the “Add feed or gadget” next to the RSS icon.
Paste in the URL of the RSS feed you copied from your Ning Network and click the “Add” button. Once your feed has successfully been added, click the “Back to iGoogle home” link at the top left of the page. Your new feed will appear in the top left corner of the page.
You can edit your RSS feed on iGoogle in much the same way you edit your modules on the main page of your network.
If you run an external website or blog, adding an RSS feed from your Ning Network to your external website is a great way to integrate the two. For more tips on integrating your Ning Network with your external website, check out this article. You can also add external RSS feeds to your network with the RSS feature.
If you want to highlight certain content on your network with an RSS feed, you can create a tabs for it by going to My Network > Settings > Tabs & Pages and clicking on the “Add New Tab” link. In the Tab Information section, paste the URL into the “Use Existing URL” field.
For a list of other RSS feeds available to you on your network, take a look at this Overview of Available RSS Feeds.
If your Ning Network is private, it will not generate RSS feeds for any content on your Ning Network to protect the privacy of members. If you’d like to use the RSS feeds without sacrificing member privacy, you might want to set your Ning Network so that only the Main page is public.
To troubleshoot an RSS issue, first Ensure the RSS Feed on Your Network Is Working