{"id":1885,"date":"2012-03-19T23:19:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T23:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help-o.ning.com\/?page_id=1885"},"modified":"2019-11-19T13:36:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T13:36:13","slug":"keep-it-simple","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/help\/work-portfolio-gallery\/keep-it-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep It Simple"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Your first impulse might be, “I should add all of these!” If you can… resist that urge. Make the experience easy for your members by keeping it simple.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Have you ever walked into a store with too many choices \u2014 an electronics store with 75 big-screen TVs or 22 different wireless network routers? What did you feel? Confusion? Paralysis? The urge to walk right back out the door? Your Ning Network offers dozens of features, hundreds of third-party applications and limitless ways to customize it. Your first impulse might be, “I should add all of these!” If you can… resist that urge. Make the experience easy for your members by keeping it simple.<\/p>\n

Critical mass is another important reason to keep it simple. If you only offer a couple of features, all of your members will congregate in those areas \u2014 posting content and commenting on other members\u2019 posts. This member engagement feeds on itself, encouraging still more activity. If instead you offer 15 features and apps, your members will be spread across them. Activity around any single feature will be lower, and members will likely be less engaged.<\/p>\n

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