Imagine you did a crash course met many interesting people, had a great living for several months and the course is over. How to contact the whole group, share experiences, know what each is doing, etc? The answer is: Open a Ning.
Now, imagine you are a collector of match boxes and who knows other "freaks" who also share this hobby. You can photograph them, schedule events for collectors, make videos illustrative to hear from other collectors and exchange relics. Which include all that precious? Open a Ning.
Another example: you attend a family meeting, gathering more than one hundred cousins, nieces and grandchildren of various cities in one weekend. Take pictures, videos, hear stories and tell jokes. Some cousins who play together or knew each other that one hardly saw can be life-days and update the news about marriages, births and deaths. The two-day fly by and soon reaches the famous domingão, bringing the nostalgia of Monday with the fateful question: when will we meet again? Life goes, people do not have the time and I say, open a Ning!
But do not think that Ning is only for games and refreshments. Ning also allows artists, brands and organizations, to mark the presence in the online world by creating their own networks and integrating beautifully with other social media services, providing a direct relationship, unique and profitable with fans, customers and partners. It can be extremely useful for its commercial network in any area or segment, stimulating exchange of information relevant to the business and enhancing the network of relationships is vital to the success of any business. So if you work in Marketing or HR in the corporate world, open a Ning!
Panoramic
Founded in October 2004 by Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini, Ning launched its platform in October 2005 and the Social Network Ning, in February 2007. The name chosen, as has Gina, it's because the word "Ning" is short and sweet. How she loved the word, the registrant. Additionally, Ning, in Mandarin (Chinese language) means "peace." A great omen for a media that promotes social encounters between people!
Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Ning now has over 1.3 million social networks and created more than 30 million registered members. Millions of people every day are joining the Ning to explore and express their interests, discover new passions and meet new people.
Building communities
The most important thing about Ning is that it is very well designed and structured to create specific communities for many different purposes. Although there are other social networks that encourage the creation of communities, as well as MySpace or Facebook, Ning is best for this purpose. He is a wonderful place to share, with a friendly interface and highly customizable, integrated with many other services, with various options for use of media.
Become a manager of social networks
When you register with Ning, you can only participate in other networks, the user, or you can create your network, as an administrator and manager of virtual environments. So you can quickly and very easy to become a real manager of Social Networks. In addition, each member of a particular Ning can create their own "communities", "groups", according to different levels of permission granted by the administrator / manager.
The resources available are diverse: ranging from forums and chats and polls to share stories, photos, videos and integration with other widgets and other features.
And you can also choose to share your posts on other networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Digg and Del.icio.us. With a simple click, you can widen the scope of their posts, spreading further and further its seeds on the web.
Privacy
Some cridores Social networks like to share your experience with the world, while others create networks on Ning for only close friends and family.
To allow this diversity of preferences, Ning offers extremely flexible privacy settings for the creation of each network. As a network creator, you have several options when it comes to the privacy of your Ning Network:
- The Ning network can be public. This means that members and nonmembers alike can see your Ning Network. You have the option to make everything visible or just the main page. If you choose "Only the main page, visitors will have to sign up to view other pages.
- Ning Network can be private. This means that anyone visiting the URL of your Ning Network goes straight to a login page. You have the option of allowing anyone to sign up, or only those who were invited. This second option means that new members will receive an invitation from an existing member, to enable them to join your Ning Network.
Both in public and private option, you can turn on moderation, verifying and approving new members, before they enter the network. When moderation is enabled, the network administrator or creator will need to approve or deny the members who want to join the network.
Personal Testimony
The first time I received an invitation to join a social network was encouraged not because the matter did not interest me and I thought it complicated. That's an important tip: for any community to succeed, it is important to be in tune with people and their interests. If not, the community will evolve.
But I had a second chance: I was invited to join a network of people that I loved, around a theme that I was very mobilizing. It was only then that I decided to devote my time to understand what it was. Once I understood, I was hooked.
Ning is easy to use and actually brings people together around a common theme or goal. It's like a big meeting, which can be family, neighbors, between suppliers and customers, between friends, business partners or between people who share the same interest in a topic or activity.
For now, my main experience was as a user. I participate in four communities, but I am very active in only two. I have not had a long experience as manager of the network, but I am on the verge of starting three new networks, with different functions: a family, a work-related and one related to a learning group.
Maybe in a few months I count this experience!
And you know Ning? Got something to share with our readers? If yes, write in the comments below! If not, make sure you know already!
Now, imagine you are a collector of match boxes and who knows other "freaks" who also share this hobby. You can photograph them, schedule events for collectors, make videos illustrative to hear from other collectors and exchange relics. Which include all that precious? Open a Ning.
Another example: you attend a family meeting, gathering more than one hundred cousins, nieces and grandchildren of various cities in one weekend. Take pictures, videos, hear stories and tell jokes. Some cousins who play together or knew each other that one hardly saw can be life-days and update the news about marriages, births and deaths. The two-day fly by and soon reaches the famous domingão, bringing the nostalgia of Monday with the fateful question: when will we meet again? Life goes, people do not have the time and I say, open a Ning!
But do not think that Ning is only for games and refreshments. Ning also allows artists, brands and organizations, to mark the presence in the online world by creating their own networks and integrating beautifully with other social media services, providing a direct relationship, unique and profitable with fans, customers and partners. It can be extremely useful for its commercial network in any area or segment, stimulating exchange of information relevant to the business and enhancing the network of relationships is vital to the success of any business. So if you work in Marketing or HR in the corporate world, open a Ning!
Panoramic
Founded in October 2004 by Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini, Ning launched its platform in October 2005 and the Social Network Ning, in February 2007. The name chosen, as has Gina, it's because the word "Ning" is short and sweet. How she loved the word, the registrant. Additionally, Ning, in Mandarin (Chinese language) means "peace." A great omen for a media that promotes social encounters between people!
Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Ning now has over 1.3 million social networks and created more than 30 million registered members. Millions of people every day are joining the Ning to explore and express their interests, discover new passions and meet new people.
Building communities
The most important thing about Ning is that it is very well designed and structured to create specific communities for many different purposes. Although there are other social networks that encourage the creation of communities, as well as MySpace or Facebook, Ning is best for this purpose. He is a wonderful place to share, with a friendly interface and highly customizable, integrated with many other services, with various options for use of media.
Become a manager of social networks
When you register with Ning, you can only participate in other networks, the user, or you can create your network, as an administrator and manager of virtual environments. So you can quickly and very easy to become a real manager of Social Networks. In addition, each member of a particular Ning can create their own "communities", "groups", according to different levels of permission granted by the administrator / manager.
The resources available are diverse: ranging from forums and chats and polls to share stories, photos, videos and integration with other widgets and other features.
And you can also choose to share your posts on other networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Digg and Del.icio.us. With a simple click, you can widen the scope of their posts, spreading further and further its seeds on the web.
Privacy
Some cridores Social networks like to share your experience with the world, while others create networks on Ning for only close friends and family.
To allow this diversity of preferences, Ning offers extremely flexible privacy settings for the creation of each network. As a network creator, you have several options when it comes to the privacy of your Ning Network:
- The Ning network can be public. This means that members and nonmembers alike can see your Ning Network. You have the option to make everything visible or just the main page. If you choose "Only the main page, visitors will have to sign up to view other pages.
- Ning Network can be private. This means that anyone visiting the URL of your Ning Network goes straight to a login page. You have the option of allowing anyone to sign up, or only those who were invited. This second option means that new members will receive an invitation from an existing member, to enable them to join your Ning Network.
Both in public and private option, you can turn on moderation, verifying and approving new members, before they enter the network. When moderation is enabled, the network administrator or creator will need to approve or deny the members who want to join the network.
Personal Testimony
The first time I received an invitation to join a social network was encouraged not because the matter did not interest me and I thought it complicated. That's an important tip: for any community to succeed, it is important to be in tune with people and their interests. If not, the community will evolve.
But I had a second chance: I was invited to join a network of people that I loved, around a theme that I was very mobilizing. It was only then that I decided to devote my time to understand what it was. Once I understood, I was hooked.
Ning is easy to use and actually brings people together around a common theme or goal. It's like a big meeting, which can be family, neighbors, between suppliers and customers, between friends, business partners or between people who share the same interest in a topic or activity.
For now, my main experience was as a user. I participate in four communities, but I am very active in only two. I have not had a long experience as manager of the network, but I am on the verge of starting three new networks, with different functions: a family, a work-related and one related to a learning group.
Maybe in a few months I count this experience!
And you know Ning? Got something to share with our readers? If yes, write in the comments below! If not, make sure you know already!
