You can use any ad serving service you’d like as well as use this premium feature to protect your social network from showing any ads at all. This costs $19.95 per month. You can also use your own domain name, again a cost is involved,
$4.95 per month. The cost of removing the “Create Your Own Social Network” button from the top of your social network is $7.95 per month. Ning social networks are completely flexible giving you control over branding, appearance, the ability to integrate RSS , Podcasting and many other web 2.0 features!
· Add your own logo, branding, and visual design to make your network unique.
· Choose from a variety of themes and customize them to make them your own.
· Make your network public or private.
· Customize the appearance of your branded photo slideshow, video player, music/podcast player widgets and network badges.
· Customize the profile questions your network asks when members join. Make questions private, so that the answers are only viewable by you and your Network Administrators.
· Enable “oneclick” Facebook Promotion so your members can add photo slideshows, video players, and music/podcasts from your network seamlessly into Facebook.
· Choose to moderate photos and videos before they are posted.
· Choose from a set of supported languages (English, Chinese, Dutch, French, Portuguese, Spanish) or translate your social network into any unsupported language by changing one file in the code.
Photo Sharing
· Upload photos from a computer, mobile phone, or Flickr account.
· Add photo comments, ratings, tags, locations, favorites, and share via email.
· Create, organize, and view albums.
· Create, view and “embed” photo slideshows branded for your network.
· View all photos across the social network.