Migrating From Ning to Drupal
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As many of you may have heard, Ning recently eliminated its free networks and laid off 40% of its staff. Currently, Ning supports exporting users; for those of you interested in migrating your community members from Ning into Drupal, you have two well developed options at your disposal:
- User Import:
- Feeds:
If Ning ever opened up their APIs to allow content export, then importing the content would be equally straightforward. Both the Feeds module and the Node Import module would get the job done.
Another option for data import is a combination of the Table Wizard and the Migrate module.
If you are launching a Ning site now, setting up a Drupal site to import that content via RSS using the Feeds module wouldn't be a bad idea. Should Ning go out of business, or change their terms again, or if your organization makes the decision to take control of your web presence, your data (and the intellectual capital of your community) won't be in the hands of a content silo.
