Launch your Own Social Networking Site with Ning

Start your own forum and social networking site!!! Like Myspace,Linkedln and facebook which are popular social network did you know there exist few other small social network which offers similar features? have you heard of ning which allows you to create your own social network ning is a platform where anyone can create their own social network? not only ning there are many social network say grou.ps which offers similar facility the difference between ning and grou.ps is grou.ps is adfree where as ning displays google ads on every of its page

Starting a social networking site of your own is very easy just visit ning fill up the main form with email,yourname and desired password and you would be prompted with the screen as shown in the left give give the name of your social network in my case i gave it "need to know" and select the preffered URL i selected probedeep as my address now you are done and now you will be taken in like a setupwizard


you can select the template as shown in below picture which is just like blogger or wordpress



the dashboard also looks like similar to blogger with minimal facilities you can edit template drag and drop and chage the layout


you can also frame rules who can join your network private or public depends on whether your
discussion is with family friends or open public you can also integrate with google analytics and can get statistics about your source of traffic and number of people visiting your site..... though ning displays ads on every page of your network you can update to premium service and remove the ads and also you can run your own ads if you have good traffic

similarly grou.ps is also a free platform where can you create your own social network and public forum signing up is similar to the ning and the difference is it is adfree and it as a less features compared to the ning


grou.ps offers a good set of feature to start our own custom discussion forum and community and you can create according to your state as grou.ps claims see below list

• custom-->if your requrement does not fit in blog,forum you can create your own style of network

• blog ring-->Aggregate blogs of like-minded people

• travellers dairy--> Blog about your backpacking souvenirs, upload your videos, pictures, create your own Lonely Planet

• scholar-->Get a forum, mailing list to stay in touch with your classmates, visualize your locations on a real-world Map

• open source-->Your own Planet Gnome, wiki, forum, screenshots directory. Works perfectly fine with Sourceforge

• forum-->more than just a simple forum... no installation, maintenance hassles, no spam

• wiki-->more than just a simple wiki... no installation, maintenance hassles, no spam

the admin contols has a good features and controls set that is appropriate to set permissions for the smooth operation of the forums with greater control over the forum.