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Ning Pro and Plus Plans: Several Limitations Improved - - Mini Plan Restrictions.

For Ning Plus and Ning Pro - - Sounds to Me - - the Ning Noose is About to Come Off!

Notice: For those of you planning to purchase the Mini Plan, please see restrictions below.

Ning Plans To Improve Several Limitations for Plus and Pro!

Ning Plus or Ning Pro Plan Updates - Greater control over the design of your Ning Network.

Significant increase and more characters allowed in Advanced CSS - from 15,000 to 100,000!
Major increase and more characters allowed in Analytics Box, from 2,000 to 20,000!
More Menu Tabs, from 14 top-level up to 50 top-level tabs.

The Ning Pro Plan includes Premium Support. You’ll enjoy the following increased level of support:

Responses to your questions within 24 hours, Monday through Friday
Invitations to new release and upcoming feature calls
Access to Ning Strategic Relationships and Community Management teams’ expertise through private events, webinars and forums

Restrictions on the Mini: Note - information came directly from Ning's Announcement About the Mini Plan

If you decide to purchase Ning Mini, Ning states "We’ve made it easy to transition to the new product.":

If you currently have between 151 and 400 members, you will be able to choose Ning Mini. However, you won’t be able to approve additional members until your membership drops below 150. Your Member page will show the most recent 150 members. If you have more than 400 members, you won’t be able to purchase Ning Mini. You will need to reduce your Ning Network to 400 members before selecting Ning Mini.
If you have customized your current network with CSS, JavaScript or the Language Editor, these changes will remain in place. Because the Advanced Appearance Box, Analytics Box and Language Editor aren’t available with Ning Mini, you won’t be able to make further edits. You will be able to erase the CSS or JavaScript, or revert to the default in the Language Editor, if you so choose.
Similarly, if you currently have more than 3 text boxes or 1 RSS feed on your Main Page, these will remain in place. However, you won’t be able to make edits until you have reduced the number of Main Page text boxes to 3 or RSS feeds to 1.

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Permalink Reply by Neuerotica on June 20, 2010 at 2:36pm

didn't know there were limitations on css in the first place. having said that:

yyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!! lol!

thanks for this update jen! much appreciated.

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Permalink Reply by Ann Marie on June 28, 2010 at 6:06pm

Well, I am struggling to find a way to pay for the Plus Plan. It's really a shame that the Mini Plan doesn't offer a bit more. I want all the features that I have now, but will have to go with Plus to keep them. I have less than 50 members right now, and though we are growing, it will take me some time to even get to 150 members! The Mini would be ideal if it weren't so restricted.

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Permalink Reply by Neuerotica on June 28, 2010 at 6:27pm

there is a way to get around all of ning's limitations for the mini and plus plans. i hope to have it published here and on the creators network by the end of this week.

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Permalink Reply by JenSocial on June 28, 2010 at 7:00pm

True on a lot, and really looking forward to your analysis.

I should mention, there is no way to get around the limitation on number of members.

Keep me posted. I know your information will be awesome.

Hi to G,
;-)
Jen

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Permalink Reply by Neuerotica on June 28, 2010 at 7:20pm

if mini networks have access to the analytics box there will be a way to get around members limitations. if not, i'll figure something else out.

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Permalink Reply by JenSocial on June 28, 2010 at 7:57pm

I hear you. But, wouldn't that be a risk of breaking their TOS?
;-)

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Permalink Reply by Neuerotica on June 28, 2010 at 8:03pm

ssssshhhhhhh!!!! lol

no, not really. i'm sure once i post my ideas, if they have a problem with it, they'll let me know.

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Permalink Reply by JenSocial on June 28, 2010 at 8:37pm

Sounds like a plan.
:-)

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Permalink Reply by rivrain philippe on July 19, 2010 at 8:37pm

Create Web sites and produce a full "WORKING" so we are obliged to buy it later, just as it is the baker we paid for us as we ate bread ... as advertising, which funded the product pages out saves money on this site .... And if this trend were to repeat with other platforms of sites I think the principle of "social" cease altogether to make way for the lack of true notions.

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