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One of the great things about having a social network on Ning is that it’s fully self-contained. You can host discussions or share videos and photos, all in one place. That said, many people have other websites and set up a social network as a way for members to get to know each other and join the conversation.

If you have another website or blog, you can create a seamless experience for members and visitors clicking between your social network and your other site. There are a number of built-in tools on Ning that give you the power to do this. Let’s start create a website on the Ning.

Influencer marketing is on the rise every single day with several brands spending huge with influencers (over one billion dollars per year) according to a study by Mediakix. As an entrepreneur, you need to understand that your social media strategy is critical in achieving the needed results. Social media marketing industry continues to evolve and various influencer marketing trends applied to boost the game. You will have to stay up to date with the trends to be able to spark engagements and conversations around your products and services.

At Ning, we’re all about social. It’s in our veins. We play well with others like Twitter and Facebook; and we focus on how other services like them can best be implemented into the Ning Platform to give you a seamless and awesome experience for building and contributing to a Ning community, and sharing content elsewhere.

We encourage Ning Creators to take full advantage of other social platforms as they build a social strategy and online presence to reach their goals. Here are 8 ways your Ning community works with other social platforms, making your Ning site an integral part of that strategy:

Chris Paton is a medical doctor, consultant and researcher. He specializes in the area of “Health Informatics,” which is all about using technology to enhance the provision of healthcare. One of the ways that Chris has been using technology over the years is to create online eLearning communities to help health professionals with their continuing education. The first community he created is called New Media Medicine and has been running for about 10 years, now with over 100,000 monthly users.

The majority of communities struggle to sustain high levels of activity in their communities. We typically only hear about the rampant success stories. It’s fun to believe that a community will just attract members and explode to life.

This week, we held the second webinar in our series with Richard Millington, one of the most respected voices in the field of community management. The first one was about increasing activity, and it was definitely the most successful webinar Ning has ever held.

Online community guidelines detail the types of behaviors that are and are not appropriate on your community. They include things that some might consider obvious, but they also include items that are somewhat unique to you and your community. I liken an online community to a country. Each country has culture, laws and social norms that make it different from every other country.

Many community managers are either too slow or too fast to remove antagonistic members. They either remove the antagonistic member without fully realizing the role this individual plays within the community, or they spend copious amounts of time trying to convert the antagonist into a happy member.

We’ve seen social media growing from a simple way of keeping in touch with people towards the important weapons in the marketing stream to achieve social goals. It is foreseeable to use social media goals examples to look for the competitors and achieving your best to set up the desirable social media goals and objectives for your team. You need to stick to a well-devised plan to achieve success in social media world.

Social media marketers are always looking at the best ways to get ahead with the most powerful marketing techniques. When marketers used to think about social media marketing in previous times, they had a thought about using only social networks for the same. The major focus is on the creation of appealing content to get in the reach of the right people who are able to enhance your company’s social presence. Social advertising is indeed the best way to reach towards the target audience to give them a message about your work.

Design and marketing are the two major interlinked terms for the potential increase in business and marketing. It is a challenge for the business owners to get all the aspects of business growth aligned in a right way. Unique concepts and best designs are sold by the high-end companies to make an impact on most of the audience.

Whether you are an established company, startup, nonprofit, or any other organization, you need social media to stay relevant. It’s tough to navigate the different platforms, decide what type of content you want to create, and who you want to target. It is also crucial for your Ning network.

Check out our guide before you dive in. We have your back from beginning to end, and give you a detailed social media strategy plan.