Ning: Your Ning Settings

On every page of the Ning website, you can access your Settings. Just look in the upper right-hand corner of the page; just below your name, you will see a link that says Settings.

Here are some of the settings you might want to change:

Email Address: This is how you log on to Ning. If you created your account with one email address and want to change it to a different email address, you can do that. Just click the Change link, and enter the email address you want to use.

Name: This is the name that is displayed for all your posts and comments at the Ning. Please feel free to use your nickname here! So, if you are officially Anthony but everybody calls you Tony, then put Tony in the name field - and please include your last name, since there may very well be other folks in the Ning who have the same first name.

Photo: You can use a photograph as your profile photo, or you can use any kind of image you prefer (a graphic design, cartoon character, etc.). To change your photo, just click on the Choose File button and upload the image you want to use.

Email Notifications: On the left-hand side of the Settings page, you will see an Email link.  This gives you access to your Ning email notifications. By default, you get email notifications when people leave comments for you, but you can also choose to turn off those email notifications.

Privacy. The Ning is private; only people invited to join the Ning can log on and view the content. So, please do not adjust the privacy settings on your blog - if you make your blog private or your posts private, nobody will be able to read and reply to your blog. If you accidentally set a blog post private, here is how to change it: go to the page with the blog post, select Options, and then choose Edit Post, and make sure "Everyone" can read and comment on the post. If you accidentally set your entire blog to be private, here is how to change it: click on the Settings option under your name on the right-hand side of any Ning page, then click on the Privacy tab on the left-hand side of the page, and make sure that "Anyone" can read and comment on your blog and profile page. This means "anyone" who is able to access the blog - and that just means people who are invited to the Ning, so don't worry: you will only be getting comments from me and from other people in the class.