How to create your own social network?

• Go to www.ning.com
• Then insert your social name
• Choose your web address for easier people find it
• Then follow their step : need your email and name information
  

Branding & Visual Design Freedom

Your social network on Ning enables the most flexibility and visual freedom in the industry. Choose from one of 50 distinct and unique themes or create your own design with custom CSS. Add tabs and sub-tabs to specific pages and external links via the Tab Manager feature.

Unique Member Profiles

Define your own profile questions for incoming members. Enable members to customize their profile pages with their own design, choice of widgets and OpenSocial profile applications. Customize advanced member search based on your social network's unique profile questions, including location.

Moderation & Privacy

Choose to make your social network public or private for members only. Moderate members before they join. Moderate photos, videos, groups, chat, and events before they're posted. Set up multiple layers of administrators. Ban members from your social networks. Enable members to close their profiles to others.

Invitations & Search Engine Optimization

Every social network on Ning comes with a rich invitation engine for you and members to invite new members. Full web address book and .csv file importing. Full search engine optimization beginning with your social network's information: tagline, description, and keywords.

Latest Activity

A real-time, dynamic activity feed of everything happening across your social network. Put it on the Main page or make it persistent on every page by adding it to the right hand column on your social network. Choose the activities that are displayed.

Custom Text & Widgets

Add a text box to your Main page, then copy and paste in your choice of widgets from the thousands available on the web today. For something more simple, use the text box for your weekly column, special promotions, or your own unique images and graphics.

RSS Feeds In and RSS Out

Pull in one or more RSS feeds from your blog, website or news source for an ongoing stream of information into your social network. All features for public social networks are also available via RSS off your social network automatically.

Photos Feature & Branded Photo Slideshows

Enable your members to upload and share photos. Automatically present your members with the option to embed your social network's branded photo slideshows anywhere on the web and link back to your social network.

Video Feature & Branded Video Players

Enable your members to upload and share videos. Automatically present your members with the option to embed your social network's branded video players anywhere on the web and link back to your social network.

Chat

Enable your members to see who's online and chat in real-time with the persistent chat feature across the bottom of your social network or pop it out into its own window.

Groups

Enable groups on your social network with images, membership, comments and a discussion forum.

Discussion Forum

Add a rich single or multi-threaded discussion forum with categories, photos and attachments to your social network. Limit forum topic creation to you or open it up to all of your members.

Blogs for Every Member

Enable blogging for every member of your social network. Display everyone's blog posts as a tab or just feature specific blog posts on your network's Main page via our unique Feature displays.

Events

Organize events and keep track of who's attending. Limit event creation to you or open it up to all of your members.

Recommended Social Networks

From Ning.com, Ning gives members of the social networks on the Ning Platform an easy way to discover new social networks based on the social network's momentum, relevancy, and popularity. To Ning Creators, the Ning recommendation engine represents an additional source of prospective members just by using Ning.

Social Network Activity Feed

Ning enables members of social networks on the Ning Platform to dynamically keep up-to-date with activity across all of their social networks in a single place. To Ning Creators, the Ning activity feed represents a powerful way to drive recurring usage by members across the social networks on Ning.