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Build Your Own Social Network Site

PC World Team 09 Nov' 2009

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Build a Social Network

You can easily create your own social networking site with Ning social media platform. You could rely on a Ning social network to maintain schedules for anything from managing workgroup projects to organizing an office softball team. Calendar tools, blog-style posts, comments, and other systems could help connect people. And you could post photos and videos to recap events.

You could also use Ning to collaborate internally, updating everyone on a project's status, leaving ideas about new goals, recapping meetings, and otherwise keeping the office in sync. Best of all, nearly anyone can run the setup process, so you won't have to waste tech or design resources by getting those staffers involved.

But Ning is especially powerful for building a space in which to interact with customers. Think of the service as a companion to your company's Web presence. Your Ning social network can live at its own URL, as in mycompany.ning.com, or you can integrate it as a subdomain of your site, as in community.mycompany.com.

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