How to Create a Social Network on Ning
A great friend recently asked me about creating his own social network on Ning. Here are a few articles and resources I found really useful and thought I should share it with everyone.
Articles to Read
What is Ning?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ning
Eight Steps to Creating a Great Social Network
http://blog.ning.com/2007/03/eight_steps_to_creating_a_grea.html
Top 5 Ways to Make Money Online with Ning
http://www.justmakemoneyonline.com/2008/01/12/ning-making-money-from-social-networking/
Why Create Your Own Social Network?
http://about.ning.com/why.php
Understand the Different Between Ning & Flux
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/28/ning-ceo-calls-flux-and-viacom-to-the-mat/
Meet Cofounder of Ning – Marc Andreessen
http://www.stevehargadon.com/2007/07/marc-andreessen-from-web-browser-to.html
Meet Cofounder of Ning – Gina Bianchini
http://www.stevehargadon.com/2007/04/interview-with-gina-bianchini-from-ning.html
Do:
Search and Review Social Networks already provide similar topics
http://www.ning.com/?view=search
Review Good Samples of Social Network Created by Ning
http://my.spanishdict.com/ – Nice logo with white background. Simple Layout
http://pickensplan.ning.com/ – Great background that go with the front page picture.
http://navyformoms.ning.com/ – Great header banner. Simple and to the point.
http://www.poshmama.com/ – Great way to highlight their contributors.
http://thisis50.ning.com/ – Wow…
http://diydrones.ning.com/ – this network supposed to be making $400 per month
You can also review other Ning social network highlighted by the Ning blog.
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These networks are not CREATED BY NING!!! They are CREATED by using NING as their BACK-END application!!!! Get your information RIGHT!
Comment by Ashley Abbott — July 28, 2008 @ 8:49 am
It is not created by. The title is called “Created on” Ning.
Comment by edith — August 15, 2008 @ 9:18 am
Edith, thanks soooo very much for putting this together. I know it took time and I appreciate you putting that into it and organizing your process you are sharing with us. Very, very helpful to review.
I hope you continue to document both your own steps forward and also more about what you’ve learned along the way you can give us a head’s up to avoid.
Comment by Sherry Lowry - in Austin Texas USA — November 30, 2008 @ 7:22 am