Creating Your Own Ning

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A Ning provides an excellent space to host your own social network. You may belong to a few, but how do you create your own? In this session we will go over the basics of creating a Ning, how to customize a Ning as well as best practices in facilitating Nings. NCTIES 2010 presentation

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NingCreate your own Social Network

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Why Ning?

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Walled Garden

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Example Nings

Deconstructing a Ning

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Forums

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Creating a Ning - Ease of use

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Management

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Customization

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CSS

URLS to unblock

Tips & Tricks

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Make Ning Public, but groups private

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Keep tabs on your Ning with RSS

Change your welcome message

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Profile Questions

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What do Premium Services add?

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Transforming your community of learners

to a community of practice.

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Bethany Smithbethany_smith@ncsu.edu

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