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More control over groups, a lot more control
I see someone else already asked about categorizing the forum topics in the groups but we also need the ability to brand groups, arrange content like the profile pages, and so much more.
Ning has been talking about doing this, or at least giving us more control, but we haven't heard any specific details in 3-4 months and would like to hear what we'll be able to do in the future.
Ning has been talking about doing this, or at least giving us more control, but we haven't heard any specific details in 3-4 months and would like to hear what we'll be able to do in the future.
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Maybe nings intention for groups wasnt like what WE want it to be but just for discussings things. However, personally i think, when a service grows it should also grow with the needs of their users.
Groups changes have been promised to us for almost a year now. If i am correct, i recall an announcement from NING making major changes to groups somewhere in august or september last year. Maybe they are working on it in secret while we discuss it, maybe not... i just hope groups will have more features and possibillites in the future.
Personally i think we should be able to skin our groups just like we can with our profiles. Just add the profileeditor to groups so we can give it a different feel for every single group.
I have made multiple suggestions for groups to make them so much cooler and my hope is that ning will listen to it, like the below suggestions:
- When we write a blog or forumpost, add a link that says: 'Add this item to .. groups i am member of, then a list of groups should appear and we can click checkboxes from groups we joined. Same counts for photos and videos
- Groups should have different modules, like photos, videos, blogs, events
Groups should have ONE wide TOP column in wich we can place widgets and under the wide top colum have two smaller columns with 'forum, photos, videos and events or RSS feed.
Maybe a drag and drop function to replace the modules as we like it!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ? :-)))
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Inappropriate?Maybe nings intention for groups wasnt like what WE want it to be but just for discussings things. However, personally i think, when a service grows it should also grow with the needs of their users.
Groups changes have been promised to us for almost a year now. If i am correct, i recall an announcement from NING making major changes to groups somewhere in august or september last year. Maybe they are working on it in secret while we discuss it, maybe not... i just hope groups will have more features and possibillites in the future.
Personally i think we should be able to skin our groups just like we can with our profiles. Just add the profileeditor to groups so we can give it a different feel for every single group.
I have made multiple suggestions for groups to make them so much cooler and my hope is that ning will listen to it, like the below suggestions:
- When we write a blog or forumpost, add a link that says: 'Add this item to .. groups i am member of, then a list of groups should appear and we can click checkboxes from groups we joined. Same counts for photos and videos
- Groups should have different modules, like photos, videos, blogs, events
Groups should have ONE wide TOP column in wich we can place widgets and under the wide top colum have two smaller columns with 'forum, photos, videos and events or RSS feed.
Maybe a drag and drop function to replace the modules as we like it!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ? :-)))
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Inappropriate?We are establishing DeepnWide.ning,com as a place for interesting discussion on any variety of subjects. What would be useful is a sidebar for 'Topics' such as environment, political, spiritual, community, etc. that would point direct to related bloges, photos, events, etc.
Maybe this has been done already so suggestion are welcome.
Jonathan Gaines
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Inappropriate?Just wanted to add to this:
As the number of Groups on my network has grown to over 200, it's gotten nearly impossible for members to navigate. One of my mods recently created a page categorizing the groups to help members find where they should join. The page was created manually, and has to be manually updated when a new group is added. It's clunky and automated group categorization would work much better.
More advanced group tools we could use:
1. merge similar groups
2. move conversations between groups
3. Move conversations from the forum to a group
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Inappropriate?It would be handy to have at least TAGS for groups, like http://grou.ps has this will make it easier to find groups with similar themes... when they are all clunked together in one place its hardto find groups of similar interests...
Same counts for videos!
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Inappropriate?Tags for groups would TOTALLY address the categorization need.
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Inappropriate?But not just tags, also a TAGCLOUD, we used to have this in the beginning of ning strangely they removed the tagclouds just like they removed other great things, just like directly uploading an image as a background into the modules.. i dont GET why they delete great features when everyone loves them....
