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Need help with a network

Hello Jen,
First I wanted to thank you for all the awesome tips and help you give so kindly to all. I have a question, and I would appreciate your feedback and advise on this. We were thinking on making our network private, but not "out" of the net, meaning, I would like to take off the sign up button (icon/word) out of our network, and just allowing people to get in by invitation of friends. The reason is we do have a big network and it is demanding a huge amount of energy and time from all the managers and it is seriously deflecting us from active and positive interactions. Is there a way we can do this? I would appreciate your thoughts on this,
Blessings Liane with HH

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Permalink Reply by JenSocial on September 19, 2010 at 1:04pm

Thank you for your kind words.

You got me on that one. Unless you use the built-in features for privacy:

Select the privacy options you want for your Ning Network.
Public
Select Public to make your Ning Network visible to everyone. Anyone can sign up to become a member. What can visitors see?
o Everything
o Just the Main Page

Private
Select Private to make your Ning Network visible to members only. Who can sign up to become a member?
o Anyone
o Only Invited People

I think it's more hacking than I would want to try.

Because, if you just hide the sign-up box to non-members, I think there would be too many checks to make, to insure the invited member can in fact sign-up, if that makes sense.

Just my take on it, someone else may have different thoughts on it.

Have a nice Sunday,
Jen

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