{"id":9422,"date":"2012-12-11T19:46:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T19:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help-o.ning.com\/?p=9422"},"modified":"2019-08-27T12:28:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T12:28:44","slug":"add-outside-content-to-activity-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/help\/add-outside-content-to-activity-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"Add Outside Content to Activity Feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ning.com\/topology\/rest\/1.0\/file\/get\/50535528?profile=original\" alt=\"saxy feed\" width=\"225\" height=\"638\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/>Want some ready-made content? The Internet is full of public content you can leverage that&#8217;s directly related to the focus of your community. Pull some of that existing content directly into your Activity Feed using Ning&#8217;s Social Feed functionality, and viola \u2014 your empty community is populated with fresh content. Let&#8217;s imagine your community, Smooth Operators, is a place for saxophone enthusiasts who are both serious music fans and lighthearted followers of jazz culture:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Facebook Page: Extend your social media presence to places like Facebook so you can feed more members into the funnel of your Ning community. Have you already created a Facebook Page for saxophone jazz fans? Plug in a feed of that content.<\/li>\n<li>Twitter Accounts: Maybe you want to feature a Twitter account like @saxophonesource that lists saxophones for sale; or @selmersaxes, a maker of quality saxophones; or that guy your members know as one of the most famous contemporary sax players around, @justkoz. Toss those into the mix.<\/li>\n<li>Twitter hashtags: Use Twitter hashtags or search terms. When people tweet about the #saxophone, it can show up in your community&#8217;s activity feed. Here&#8217;s an even better idea: Create your own custom hashtag to promote your community&#8217;s #smoothoperators voice on Twitter.<\/li>\n<li>RSS News Feeds: If you know many of your members read Jazzwise magazine, maybe they offer an RSS feed with jazz-related news. (They do!) Plug in that RSS feed for ongoing updates as they happen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of these are ways to populate your Activity Feed with content before anyone has even shown up. You&#8217;ll find all of these Social Feed options in the Ning Labs section of your Dashboard. They can add a lot of value for potential members who may see your site as a place that brings everything they&#8217;re interested in together into one handy online space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want some ready-made content? The Internet is full of public content you can leverage that&#8217;s directly related to the focus of your community. Pull some of that existing content directly into your Activity Feed using Ning&#8217;s Social Feed functionality, and viola \u2014 your empty community is populated with fresh content. Let&#8217;s imagine your community, Smooth Operators, is a place for saxophone enthusiasts who are both serious music fans and lighthearted followers of jazz culture:<\/p>\n<p>Facebook Page: Extend your social media presence to places like Facebook so you can feed more members into the funnel of your Ning community. Have you already created a Facebook Page for saxophone jazz fans? Plug in a feed of that content.<br \/>\nTwitter Accounts: Maybe you want to feature a Twitter account like @saxophonesource that lists saxophones for sale; or @selmersaxes, a maker of quality saxophones; or that guy your members know as one of the most famous contemporary sax players around, @justkoz. Toss those into the mix.<br \/>\nTwitter hashtags: Use Twitter hashtags or search terms. When people tweet about the #saxophone, it can show up in your community&#8217;s activity feed. 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