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Thu
5th
First Q&A Workshop A HUGE Success!
Published by: Alex H on Thursday 5th November 2009 07:11pm
I think it is safe to say that our first SocialGO Workshop was a
great success! We will certainly be running another one again very
soon and we will be posting up some follow-up answers and material
on the Owners' blog tomorrow as well as a summary of the topics
covered.
Once again, thanks for everyone who turned up and next time we will work out how to make a bit more structured. :) Thanks to canada.rob for these kind words!
Right....I need some sleep after that!
Once again, thanks for everyone who turned up and next time we will work out how to make a bit more structured. :) Thanks to canada.rob for these kind words!
Right....I need some sleep after that!
Mon
2nd
November Goodies
Published by: Alex H on Monday 2nd November 2009 12:11pm
We have set a fairly ambitious release roadmap for November and
December and here is a sneak peak of 6 of the great new features
and updates coming to SocialGO.
1. Chat Room
A fantastic multi-user chat room where you can
talk with everyone in your network and even spin-off
to your own private chats!
2. API Docs
We are launching a set of documentation for the SocialGO API allowing you to make API calls to your network from any third party application. You can import members, build your own off-site widgets and even sync data with external data sources.
3. Facebook Connect
Much like our Twitter Connect widget, the Facebook Connect widget will allow your members to login directly to your network using their Facebook details.
4. Contact Importer v2
We are working hard on a new contact importer which will allow you to not only Import Webmail Contacts but will also allow you to Invite Social Networking Contacts too! Time for your networks to go viral.... :)
5. Internationalisation
We are working through your networks to complete internationalisation of all the corners of code including emails, error messages, forms and feedback. This is not only good news for our hundreds of non-English networks but also for those of you who with to personalise messages for your network.
5. More AJAX
We are reworking the way that requests and messaging work to make them more responsive. This was a heavily requested feature.
6. New In-Browser Chat
As well as our shiny new chat room, we are hoping to launch a shiny new in-browser chat experience for text-chat among your users. Get ready for your visitor times to explode. More details in the coming weeks.
2. API Docs
We are launching a set of documentation for the SocialGO API allowing you to make API calls to your network from any third party application. You can import members, build your own off-site widgets and even sync data with external data sources.
3. Facebook Connect
Much like our Twitter Connect widget, the Facebook Connect widget will allow your members to login directly to your network using their Facebook details.
4. Contact Importer v2
We are working hard on a new contact importer which will allow you to not only Import Webmail Contacts but will also allow you to Invite Social Networking Contacts too! Time for your networks to go viral.... :)
5. Internationalisation
We are working through your networks to complete internationalisation of all the corners of code including emails, error messages, forms and feedback. This is not only good news for our hundreds of non-English networks but also for those of you who with to personalise messages for your network.
5. More AJAX
We are reworking the way that requests and messaging work to make them more responsive. This was a heavily requested feature.
6. New In-Browser Chat
As well as our shiny new chat room, we are hoping to launch a shiny new in-browser chat experience for text-chat among your users. Get ready for your visitor times to explode. More details in the coming weeks.
More things being announced and launched soon! Don't forget to
pop along to our workshop later in the week for more
information or to ask any questions you my have.
Mon
26th
October 26th Release
Published by: Alex H on Monday 26th October 2009 02:10pm
Today we pushed a new maintenance release of your SocialGO Network code which includes a number of fixes to your networks including :
- On approval of video and photo items, an activity feed item will now appear.
- Sub-content of tabs is now controlled by member levels. If you were to limit the access to the videos tab, all sub-videos will also be limited.
- Future dated blog posts now appear in the magazine only when their post date is reached.
- The event invite friends function now works correctly for all events.
- Group locations now display correctly for group members.
- New members joining the network get a homepage activity feed entry.
- Editing a comment on the videos page now works in Internet Explorer. There was an issue with the video appearing over the edit box.
- Approving members within the Member Manager or Resetting their password now sends them an email confirming the change.
Fri
23rd
This Week's Release
Published by: Alex H on Friday 23rd October 2009 06:10pm
Hey All,
We will be deploying this week's new code on Monday which includes over 80 different resolved issues. We will publish information on this on Monday.
Cheers and have a great weekend!
We will be deploying this week's new code on Monday which includes over 80 different resolved issues. We will publish information on this on Monday.
Cheers and have a great weekend!
Mon
19th
Today's Outage
Published by: Alex H on Monday 19th October 2009 09:10pm
Hello all,
Today a portion of SocialGO networks where offline due to a hardware failure on one of our core systems. We are investigating the root cause of the issue and are taking steps to ensure it does not happen again.
The development team is making good progress getting the chat, FaceBook and various other widgets ready for launch in the next few releases.
Thanks for your patience this evening.
Today a portion of SocialGO networks where offline due to a hardware failure on one of our core systems. We are investigating the root cause of the issue and are taking steps to ensure it does not happen again.
The development team is making good progress getting the chat, FaceBook and various other widgets ready for launch in the next few releases.
Thanks for your patience this evening.
Wed
7th
Chat, Facebook Connect, Zemanta, API Docs
Published by: Alex H on Wednesday 7th October 2009 12:10pm
Good Day Network Owners,
As you may or may not know, SocialGO HQ pushes a release to the platform once a week, (usually on a Wednesday) which contains between 20-30 different changes that have been made and have gone through testing. Many of these are minor tweaks and changes and some are the introduction of entirely new features like Member Billing 2.0 or the Profile Designer.
With this in mind then, here are a few things coming out today.
Coming Today we are introducing email verification on signup to make sure that your new members verify their email addresses on signup. This will improve the delivery rate of your mass-messages and will also ensure that those members receive emails on new requests and messages sent to them. We are also rolling out updated mail servers to further white-label the platform. Looking at mail headers will now no longer say alerts@socialgo.com but will instead come from network-notify.com.
We are also releasing a fix to CSV data export so you can easily get a copy of your members and manipulate it in programs such as Excel.
In the next 2-4 weeks ....
Facebook Connect
We are in the final stages of testing the Facebook Connect widget which will allow people signup to your network with FB details as well as incorporate a Share function allowing people to share content on their networks with their Facebook Feed.
New Contact Importer
We are working on a new Contact Importer which will allow people to invite contacts using all webmail programs but also many popular social services as well. We will also be introducing the option to automatically redirect people to invite their contacts on signup to increase virality of your network if you so wish.
Chat Room Widget
We have a multi-user chat room widget in production which we are working on and plan to have this ready within the next 2-3 weeks.
Zemanta Widget
If you have the Zemanta toolbar in your Firefox browser you will know how great it is for suggesting content to place into your blogs. You will soon be able to load this directly into your network using the Zemanta Widget for SocialGO coming soon.
Improved API Documentation
We will shortly be launching a WIKI which contains examples and use cases for building with the SocialGO API. If you have basic programming skills you will find everything you need to get, update and create a range of different items on your social network. It will also contain information on developing your own widgets and themes for SocialGO networks.
The above list is just some of the things we are planning to launch in the next 4 weeks. As details become clear beyond that, I will be updating the SocialGO Owners' blog so please do keep an eye on it or even subscribe using the link at the top right of the http://owners.socialgo.com/
We have several widget developers and theme developers that want to hear from you. Why not start an Idea? on GetSatisfaction.com/socialgo to see what other network owners' think of your concept.
Tue
22nd
New Owners' Theme
Published by: Alex H on Tuesday 22nd September 2009 01:09pm
Hi guys!
We have just updated the SocialGO Owners' theme which is a preview of a new collection of themes coming from Ryan at GO Social in the next few months.
We are hoping to launch these in the next 10 days in your Theme Stores.
We have just updated the SocialGO Owners' theme which is a preview of a new collection of themes coming from Ryan at GO Social in the next few months.
We are hoping to launch these in the next 10 days in your Theme Stores.
Thu
27th
Updates to your Networks Today
Published by: Alex H on Thursday 27th August 2009 05:08pm
Hi guys,
We have pushed an update today to SocialGO networks and as always ask you guys to check your networks and let us know if you spot anything.
You will notice that you now get Notifications from activity within your groups so you can stay up date with activity in the corners of your network. We want feedback on this change and will make optimizations in the coming weeks.
We are readying Profile Designer, Twitter login, GoCart and Member Billing V2 as well so stand by for those coming very soon.
Looking forward to your feedback!
We have pushed an update today to SocialGO networks and as always ask you guys to check your networks and let us know if you spot anything.
You will notice that you now get Notifications from activity within your groups so you can stay up date with activity in the corners of your network. We want feedback on this change and will make optimizations in the coming weeks.
We are readying Profile Designer, Twitter login, GoCart and Member Billing V2 as well so stand by for those coming very soon.
Looking forward to your feedback!
Thu
20th
SocialGO's Next Release
Published by: Alex H on Thursday 20th August 2009 02:08pm
We are readying a major release of SocialGO due out very soon. This
features a number of major under-the-hood improvements and 3 great
new widgets.
Notifications will be updated to give you alerts when there is activity on your profile, in your groups and in your events. This includes those groups and events which you have joined rather than just those which you have created. No more activity in groups which you don't find out about for weeks!
Some areas of SocialGO have not always been the snappiest and we are addressing this with faster widgets, photo, video and profile browsing and also messaging.
We are releasing three widgets at the same time, including the previously announced GOCart, a Profile Designer allowing your members to design their pages and also a Twitter Connect widget allowing your members to login to your network using their twitter credentials.
Other developers are busy readying new themes and a bunch of other undisclosed widgets which will be announced only when they are in our hands....
Finally the second part of the Member Billing overhaul will be complete allowing you to match up Member Levels (announced last week) and Billing Plans so you can charge for access to the best parts of your network. This will support free trials and multiple billing providers.
We are very excited about the next couple of months here at SocialGO and can't wait to share these great new toys with you and your members.
Thanks for all your support :)
Notifications will be updated to give you alerts when there is activity on your profile, in your groups and in your events. This includes those groups and events which you have joined rather than just those which you have created. No more activity in groups which you don't find out about for weeks!
Some areas of SocialGO have not always been the snappiest and we are addressing this with faster widgets, photo, video and profile browsing and also messaging.
We are releasing three widgets at the same time, including the previously announced GOCart, a Profile Designer allowing your members to design their pages and also a Twitter Connect widget allowing your members to login to your network using their twitter credentials.
Other developers are busy readying new themes and a bunch of other undisclosed widgets which will be announced only when they are in our hands....
Finally the second part of the Member Billing overhaul will be complete allowing you to match up Member Levels (announced last week) and Billing Plans so you can charge for access to the best parts of your network. This will support free trials and multiple billing providers.
We are very excited about the next couple of months here at SocialGO and can't wait to share these great new toys with you and your members.
Thanks for all your support :)
Fri
7th
GOCart - Coming Soon
Published by: Alex H on Friday 7th August 2009 05:08pm
We are currently working on GOCart, a new shopping cart integration with BuyItSellIt.com. If you are interested in trying it out and setting up a full eCommerce shop on your network, send us a message via Twitter.
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