Create Your Own Social Network With Ning

Ning. Create your own social network for anything.

Social networks are all the rage right now but the mass-market, generic social networks do not have the focus that you might need. Enter Ning, a service that allows you to create your own social network.

These social networks do not have to be public either, they can be private, invite-only affairs too.

I was looking for a place to create some Mastermind groups, groups of people to discuss business ideas and marketing tactics with. Then I remembered an SEO group I was invited to join had been created using an online service. Yup, it was created with Ning and looked like just what I needed.

Ning allows your members to

Essentially it becomes your own mini-facebook :)

Once you have added your new social network you have a lot of flexibility to customise it.

Mastermind Hub

As well as adding features, moving widgets and tweaking the appearance of your new site, you can also add premium paid features such as using your own domain.

Ning: Add Premium Services

If enough people join my site and get use out of it I will be adding my domain and removing advertising, but until then I am quite happy to be promoting this free service and allowing them to make money off my page views.

You can check out the site I created here at mastermindhub.ning.com, join if you like :)

Posted on August 12, 2008 by Chris Garrett 
Filed Under Web 2.0

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