Announcements - Overtone Music Network2024-03-28T13:00:25Zhttps://www.overtone.cc/forum/categories/announcements-1/listForCategory?feed=yes&xn_auth=noUpdate - March 2013tag:www.overtone.cc,2013-03-21:884327:Topic:1522002013-03-21T21:14:26.120ZOMNhttps://www.overtone.cc/profile/impressum
<p>There is one good news: OMN has now a sponsor. That means that OMN is free and will be free. The provider of this network announced these days a <a href="https://www.ning.com/pricing/">new pricing plan</a> - but with the new sponsor OMN will be maintained until 20 th March 2014. Sponsor of OMN is <a href="http://www.yoga-vidya.de">Yoga Vidya</a> - a non-profit Yoga company from Germany. <a href="http://www.overtone.cc/profile/SukadevBretz">Sukadev Bretz</a>, founder and director of Yoga…</p>
<p>There is one good news: OMN has now a sponsor. That means that OMN is free and will be free. The provider of this network announced these days a <a href="https://www.ning.com/pricing/">new pricing plan</a> - but with the new sponsor OMN will be maintained until 20 th March 2014. Sponsor of OMN is <a href="http://www.yoga-vidya.de">Yoga Vidya</a> - a non-profit Yoga company from Germany. <a href="http://www.overtone.cc/profile/SukadevBretz">Sukadev Bretz</a>, founder and director of Yoga Vidya is member of OMN since 2008.<br/> <br/>
The admin team will administrate this network as volunteer.<br/>
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The <a href="http://www.ning.com">provider of OMN</a> announced not alone a massive price increase - that's why I was forced to find a sponsor for this network - more than this they announced and launched a new social networking platform for all their social communities. Next year we will be forced to migrate this network to this so called Ning 3.0 platform - which shall be an upgrade and tribute to the new internet technology like iPad, Smartphones, tablet PC's and so on. Actually this new Ning 3.0 platform is just in a beta version - not really good to use. If you need to know more about the possible upcoming changes in March 2014 you can contact <a href="http://www.overtone.cc/profiles/message/newFromProfile?screenName=150iy09ln3vla" target="_blank">Jens</a> directly. - Thanks, and all the best. <em>JM</em></p> Now Available: Copy an Eventtag:www.overtone.cc,2011-09-28:884327:Topic:1263632011-09-28T17:59:48.041ZOMNhttps://www.overtone.cc/profile/impressum
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<tbody><tr><td align="justify"><p>If you don’t use Events, you will not care about this improvement. If you do use Events, you most certainly will!</p>
<p>If you have similar events that happen again and again, or if you want to recycle a past event as a template for an upcoming event, you can simply navigate to the event in question, choose Copy Event from the drop-down edit menu.</p>
<p>You will be presented with a new event that is an exact copy of the previous event.…</p>
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<tbody><tr><td align="justify"><p>If you don’t use Events, you will not care about this improvement. If you do use Events, you most certainly will!</p>
<p>If you have similar events that happen again and again, or if you want to recycle a past event as a template for an upcoming event, you can simply navigate to the event in question, choose Copy Event from the drop-down edit menu.</p>
<p>You will be presented with a new event that is an exact copy of the previous event. Change any of the details you wish and click “Add Event”. Congratulations. You have just created a new event by copying an old one. </p>
<p>While this won’t create a fully automated, recurring event on a particular day of the week (for example), it makes the process of creating repeating or re-purposing old events quicker and easier. Allowing for true recurring events is still something we hope to add.</p>
<p>A few details to consider about this: </p>
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<li>Anyone who has access to the drop-down menu of an event can copy an event. </li>
<li>If you copy an event, you will be designated as the creator of the new event. </li>
<li>When you copy an event, you'll need to re-invite everyone. </li>
<li>Old events will, of course, live on untouched.</li>
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<p>Since you’re going to need to view old events, we’ve enhanced the events feature to make it easier to find and browse past events. Instead of showing only “All Events,” visiting the Events feature will take you to “Upcoming Events,” as it does today, but you'll see a link to access “Past Events" as well.</p>
<p>We hope you find that this new Copy Event functionality makes creating and re-creating events easy to do.</p>
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</table> New: Profile Photo Croppingtag:www.overtone.cc,2011-09-09:884327:Topic:1254922011-09-09T16:34:15.517ZOMNhttps://www.overtone.cc/profile/impressum
<p>We recently added a way for you to enhance your profile photo (or avatar) by cropping it. <br></br> <br></br> Your avatar is a window into your personality. Why not take a minute to polish up and re-frame that window? <br></br>
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<li>Drag the arrows to perfectly frame your avatar image</li>
<li>Click “Save”</li>
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<p><br></br> That’s it! Need to make a change? You can always edit (or re-crop) that…</p>
<p>We recently added a way for you to enhance your profile photo (or avatar) by cropping it. <br/> <br/>
Your avatar is a window into your personality. Why not take a minute to polish up and re-frame that window? <br/>
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<li>Go to your Settings</li>
<li>Choose “Edit current photo” or “Upload a new photo”</li>
<li>Drag the arrows to perfectly frame your avatar image</li>
<li>Click “Save”</li>
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That’s it! Need to make a change? You can always edit (or re-crop) that image.</p> No video and / or song uploadstag:www.overtone.cc,2011-07-20:884327:Topic:1235262011-07-20T11:16:00.895ZOMNhttps://www.overtone.cc/profile/impressum
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<tbody><tr><td align="justify"><p>Because of the <a href="http://www.overtone.cc/group/omn/forum/topics/new-prices-plan-by-the-social" target="_blank">price increase</a> by the social network provider of OMN called NING.com and as result of <a href="http://www.overtone.cc/group/omn/forum/topics/new-prices-plan-by-the-social" target="_blank">this discussion</a> we have inform you that upload of songs and videos will not be possible soon. Videos will be visible - but songs…</p>
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<tbody><tr><td align="justify"><p>Because of the <a href="http://www.overtone.cc/group/omn/forum/topics/new-prices-plan-by-the-social" target="_blank">price increase</a> by the social network provider of OMN called NING.com and as result of <a href="http://www.overtone.cc/group/omn/forum/topics/new-prices-plan-by-the-social" target="_blank">this discussion</a> we have inform you that upload of songs and videos will not be possible soon. Videos will be visible - but songs will be locked soon. The provider wrote me that the date will be the 5th August - that's the date for the next billing rate.</p>
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<p><em>You can add videos all the time, if you upload them on YouTube, Vimeo or another video community provider. You can share all the time your music</em> if you upload it for example on <a href="http://soundcloud.com/" target="_blank">www.soundcloud.com</a> and paste a music player widget to your page or blog post - please check out see one example <a href="http://www.overtone.cc/profiles/blogs/an-excerpt-from-our-first" target="_blank">here</a>. <br/><br/>Or highly recommended is the music community <a href="http://www.reverbnation.com" target="_blank">reverbnation.com</a> which gives you the opportunity for "an all in one widget", an event calendar widget or a single music player widget. One example can be checked out <a href="http://www.overtone.cc/profile/WilliGrimm" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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<p>We feel so sorry with this situation but it will be too expensive in the upcoming future to host mp3 files on OMN. Therefore <em>this step is required to save this site for the next years.</em> We believe that <em>the core of OMN is the event calendar and community blog</em> which give us the opportunity to inform people where they can listen our music at live concerts ...</p>
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<tbody><tr><td align="justify"><p>Just announced by Ning's CEO Jason Rosenthal, effective after July 20, 2011, Ning's Pro and Plus Subscription Plans will increase. That will force OMN to switch from NING Pro to NING Plus.How does affect this our Overtone Music Network? Okay: it will be to expensive to host songs on this site. You can always insert your videos as HTML iframe or HTML Embed Code from YouTube or/ and other video hosting websites like YouTube. With some tricks…</p>
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<tbody><tr><td align="justify"><p>Just announced by Ning's CEO Jason Rosenthal, effective after July 20, 2011, Ning's Pro and Plus Subscription Plans will increase. That will force OMN to switch from NING Pro to NING Plus.How does affect this our Overtone Music Network? Okay: it will be to expensive to host songs on this site. You can always insert your videos as HTML iframe or HTML Embed Code from YouTube or/ and other video hosting websites like YouTube. With some tricks and tipps you will be able to present your music on your own profile page. Tutorial videos will follow. Actually I am not able and willing to continue this site on an Annual NING Pro Plan.</p>
<p><br/> <strong>The new pricing will be:</strong></p>
<img src="http://creators.ning.com/images/pricing.png?width=300" width="300"/><br/><br/>According to CEO Jason Rosendahl, Ning has added all kinds of new features in the past year, with major investments for an improved platform, better platform performance - - making Ning subscriptions more valuable.
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<p><strong>He mentions the following features that have been implemented this past year:</strong></p>
<p>Ning Design Studio (which can't be used on OMN because older member profiles will getting lost their own design - there this Ning Design Studio is unlocked here on OMN) , Social Sign-in, Leaderboards, Like Buttons and Ning Everywhere (an iPhone app, which is too expensive to use it) - <a href="http://www.overtone.cc/group/omn/forum/topics/new-prices-plan-by-the-social" target="_blank"><br/><br/><em><strong>Please join the discussion here</strong></em></a><em><strong>.</strong></em></p>
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</table> Groups: Add Pages, change privacy settings and moretag:www.overtone.cc,2011-06-06:884327:Topic:1218682011-06-06T20:55:52.351ZOMNhttps://www.overtone.cc/profile/impressum
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<tbody><tr><td align="justify"><p>Groups are about to get a whole lot better. We rolled out a slew of improvements to the Groups feature. <br></br> <br></br> First, groups creators and administrators will be able <em>to add static pages to a group</em>. Added pages will be featured prominently on the group's home page, which will make it easier to share knowledge or information with group members (or potential members).<br></br> <br></br> Second, group creators and administrators will soon…</p>
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<tbody><tr><td align="justify"><p>Groups are about to get a whole lot better. We rolled out a slew of improvements to the Groups feature. <br/> <br/> First, groups creators and administrators will be able <em>to add static pages to a group</em>. Added pages will be featured prominently on the group's home page, which will make it easier to share knowledge or information with group members (or potential members).<br/> <br/> Second, group creators and administrators will soon be able to change the privacy settings of an existing group. Today, privacy settings are locked and unchangeable when a group is created. You'll soon be able to change this at will. We've also redesigned the privacy settings to be a lot easier to use and understand.<br/> <br/> Lastly, we're enhancing or fixing a slew of issues and flows within the Groups feature, including:</p>
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<li>Adding "Alphabetical" as a way to sort groups on the list of groups on a Ning Network</li>
<li>Limiting group deletion priviledges only to group moderators, network admins and Network Creators</li>
<li><em>New members of groups will no longer, by default, get notified when other people join their group</em></li>
<li>Better warning message for members viewing invite-only groups</li>
<li>Better warning message for members who've been suspended from a group</li>
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Keep reading for a full breakdown of what's coming for Pages in groups and privacy settings.<br/><br/><br/><strong>Pages inside Groups</strong><br/> <br/> Instead of having to start a discussion in the group and share documents, group creators and administrators will be able to create a static page and simply add the information there. This enhancement should make Groups more versatile and powerful.<br/> <br/> Pages within a group will act just like a normal page, in most respects. The creator of a page can choose to enable or disable comments, and the page will be accessible via the group's home page. Note that any pages added within a group won't be added to OMN 's "All Pages" directory. To avoid confusion, group pages will stay in their own group.<br/> <br/> Create a page will be available to all group creators and administrators, although group members won't see anything different until a page is actually added.<br/> <br/> There's no limit to the number of pages that can be added, so group creators have ultimate flexibility in creating Groups Pages.<br/> <br/><br/><br/> <strong>Redesigned, changeable group privacy settings</strong><br/> <br/> As long as the Groups feature has been around, privacy settings for each group have been locked immediately after the creation of that group. Additionally, in terms of privacy, someone in the process of creating a new group has always seen a single "Privacy" setting. Additional options (like being able to make a group invite-only) would only appear after a group creator decided to turn on member moderation. We've tackled both of these issues for this release.<br/> <br/> Groups creators and administrators will be able to change the privacy settings for a group at any point in time, for both new and existing groups. This adds a huge degree of flexibility to the Groups feature.<br/> <br/> On top of allowing settings to be changed at any time, groups privacy settings will soon be a lot easier to use and understand. Instead of today's settings
where there exists that single, expandable privacy choice, we've sliced each choice a group creator makes — who can view, who can join and who can send invites, as well as member moderation — into separate options:<br/><br/><img style="padding: 10px;" src="http://blog.ning.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/New-Group-small.jpg?width=553" width="553"/><br/>
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<br/>This change allows group creators and administrators to create a group that anyone can see but only invited people can join, or an invite-only group where members still have to be approved. These, along with some others, are configurations that aren't available today.<br/> <br/> These changes should make the Groups feature much more useful and flexible.<br/></td>
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<li>the music player does not display your personal page design setting. This issue was reported by a member and we forwarded this issue as <span id="updateTicketPage:SiteTemplate:j_id15"><a href="http://help2.ning.com/ViewTicket?id=5004000000EnfA6AAJ" target="_blank">ticket #00428190</a> -…</span></li>
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<li>the music player does not display your personal page design setting. This issue was reported by a member and we forwarded this issue as <span id="updateTicketPage:SiteTemplate:j_id15"><a href="http://help2.ning.com/ViewTicket?id=5004000000EnfA6AAJ" target="_blank">ticket #00428190</a> - We stay in contact with t</span>he provider since April 9th (!) and they wrote us, that they are still working on it to bring back the full design options for your music player on your profile page.</li>
<li>The subtab bar does not work proper on each pages. We have noticed this issue and send a report <a href="http://help2.ning.com/ViewTicket?id=5004000000F9zX4AAJ" target="_blank">ticket #00434240</a><span id="updateTicketPage:SiteTemplate:j_id15"> </span> to the support team and we're still waiting that this issue will be fixed soon.</li>
<li>We're still working on some new <a href="http://www.overtone.cc/video/video/listTagged?tag=tutorial-video" target="_blank">tutorial videos</a> e.g. how to use our new text editor for discussions, blog news. comments and event entries. Please be patient! It needs a little bit more time.</li>
<li>It seems that the latest activity feed has a bug. It does not display if some members, uploading new songs - but we feel so sorry - we're getting with this issue cause we have reported this dozen of times. Please: if you are one of these members - post a new status message that you have added new songs ... As member of this network - please check out the <a href="http://www.overtone.cc/page/music-1" target="_blank">Recently Added Music Pieces page.</a> Thanks, JM.</li>
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<p>Please send us your <a href="http://www.overtone.cc/main/index/feedback" target="_blank">feedback the admins of OMN</a> or send a <a href="http://www.overtone.cc/profile/jensmuegge" target="_blank">message</a> to the founder of OMN. We keep it seriously.</p>
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</table> Supported Browsers - update 12th 2011tag:www.overtone.cc,2011-04-12:884327:Topic:1186562011-04-12T18:04:31.943ZOMNhttps://www.overtone.cc/profile/impressum
<p>Since last week youz can upgrade your Firefox version to 4.0 - if you like <br></br>to use everything here proper, please notice this list. OMN supports right now <br></br><em>(April 12th 2011)</em> these following browsers:</p>
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<li>Internet Explorer 7 or 8</li>
<li>Safari 3 or 4</li>
<li>Google Chrome</li>
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Although you're welcome to use OMN with a browser that is not in this list,<br />
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<p>Since last week youz can upgrade your Firefox version to 4.0 - if you like <br/>to use everything here proper, please notice this list. OMN supports right now <br/><em>(April 12th 2011)</em> these following browsers:</p>
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<li>Firefox 2 or 3</li>
<li>Internet Explorer 7 or 8</li>
<li>Safari 3 or 4</li>
<li>Google Chrome</li>
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Although you're welcome to use OMN with a browser that is not in this list,<br />
some of the features on our network may not work correctly.</div>
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<p>Time to inform you about some application technical features. <em><strong>Network Likes</strong></em> First since last week you can add your <em><strong>favourite videos, photos and news</strong></em> to your personal likes. On the left side below your profile photo you can find a link with your network likes. If you add an item to your "likes" it will be featured in the <a href="http://twitter.com/overtonenetwork" target="_blank">latest activity feed of this network</a> and on the page with…</p>
<p>Time to inform you about some application technical features. <em><strong>Network Likes</strong></em> First since last week you can add your <em><strong>favourite videos, photos and news</strong></em> to your personal likes. On the left side below your profile photo you can find a link with your network likes. If you add an item to your "likes" it will be featured in the <a href="http://twitter.com/overtonenetwork" target="_blank">latest activity feed of this network</a> and on the page with your own <a href="http://www.overtone.cc/profiles/like/list" target="_blank">"likes"</a> - these likes are public and visible for everyone.</p>
<p>Note: we have to announce that a third party widget with an overview of all songs hosted on this platform doesn't work anymore on this platform. <strong><em>The support for the song list add on expired</em></strong> and we tried to bring back the functionality to this nice add on - with no success. Therefore we re-activated a collection with <a href="http://www.overtone.cc/page/music-1">various playlists</a> from this network. - <em>Enjoy!</em></p>
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<p>You like to send us a feedback? <a href="http://www.overtone.cc/main/index/feedback" target="_blank">Try this link.</a></p> OPTIONS (Edit, Delete, etc.) now at the top left side in line to your profile nametag:www.overtone.cc,2011-01-08:884327:Topic:1129222011-01-08T06:49:58.913ZOMNhttps://www.overtone.cc/profile/impressum
<a href="http://www.overtone.cc" target="_blank"><img class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1798936661?profile=RESIZE_480x480" style="padding: 3px;" width="449"></img></a> You've probably noticed maybe that your EDIT Options (Edit, Delete, etc.) for your various content were all over the place. For example, on a video page, the edit link is at the bottom of the page, right next to Favorite. <br></br><br></br>The location of EDIT Options on discussions and blog posts in particular sometimes causes other issues. For example, when an image is very large, it sometimes obscures the EDIT Options links. All this led…
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.overtone.cc"><img width="449" class="align-left" style="padding: 3px;" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1798936661?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="449"/></a>You've probably noticed maybe that your EDIT Options (Edit, Delete, etc.) for your various content were all over the place. For example, on a video page, the edit link is at the bottom of the page, right next to Favorite. <br/><br/>The location of EDIT Options on discussions and blog posts in particular sometimes causes other issues. For example, when an image is very large, it sometimes obscures the EDIT Options links. All this led us to provide a cleaner, more consistent experience. Now you have one single place to look for any piece of content, and you 'll find all edit OPTIONS at the top left side in line to your profile or nick name.