SocialGO Owners

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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. 

Hi All,

We are pleased to announce that the small number of networks that were effected by the server problem last night are now fully back in business.  We are very sorry for this inconvenience.

Also, we are just doing some maintenance on the Admin Centre at the moment and while we do this your Admin Centre will be in maintenance mode.  They will be back up very soon.

Stivi

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.

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 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 :)  

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Competition Terms and Conditions
The following competition terms and conditions (the “Competition Terms”) will apply to all of SocialGO’s competitions including those on the www.socialgo.com website (the “Competition”) unless expressly stated. By entering the Competition you agree to be bound by the Competition Terms and the terms of the Privacy Policy.
SocialGO reserves the right to cancel or amend the Competition and/or the Competition Terms at any time without prior notice.
Any changes to the Competition or the Competition Terms will be made available on the www.socialgo.com website.
SocialGO’s decision is final. No correspondence will be entered into.
Qualifying Entrants
1. All entries into the free subscription competition must be received by midnight BST on 12 August 2009.
2. The winner will receive a 12 month SocialGO subscription. Subscription refers to the monthly fee, any widgets, bandwidth, games or themes are not included and must still be paid for.
3. Any entrants under the age of 18 must obtain parental consent prior to entering the Competition.
4. By entering the Competition you warrant that all the information submitted by you is true, current and complete. SocialGO reserves the right to verify the eligibility of all entrants.
5. The winner of the Competition will be the three entries randomly drawn after the closing date from all the entries received.
6. The winner will be notified by email within 3 days from the Competition closing date from the personal information provided to SocialGO. In the event that the winner cannot be contacted within the period set out above SocialGO reserves the right to choose another winner at random.
7. Prizes are non-transferable and there is no cash alternative.
8. SocialGO reserves the right to disqualify any entrant if it has reasonable grounds to believe the entrant has breached any of the Competition Terms.
9. SocialGO cannot accept responsibility for any entries lost, delayed, misdirected, damaged or undelivered. SocialGO is not responsible for any technical errors in internet access or otherwise preventing entry to the Competition.
10. SocialGO is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any computer online system, software failure and traffic congestion on the network as a result in participation in the Competition.
11. Any personal data relating to entrants will be used solely in accordance with current UK data protection legislation.
12. The Competition and the term and conditions of this agreement will be governed by the laws of England and the courts of England have exclusive jurisdiction in relation to any disputes arising from this dispute.

 

Here is a quick update on new features coming soon to your networks. 

New Member Types and Advanced Permissions

We will soon be adding the ability to define additional member types in your SocialGO networks. These will be setupfrom your Member Manager and will give you the option of assigning special permissions and rule sets to sub-sets of your user base. This is the first part of our new member billing system which is in progress and, when complete, will give you powerful tools to upsell your users to paying plans to increase your revenues.

New Billing Provider

We are working on integrating with an additional provider for those of you who do not want to use PayPal. This will be released as part of our upgrade to the member billing system.

New Widgets

The Lab has been busy working away and are moments away from launching LabAds and LabConnect. LabAds allows you to run your own advertising on your network and LabConnect allows you to have a common login across all of yourSocialGO networks. Other widgets launching soon include an eCommerce integration package, profile designer and a number of others well TBA as soon as we can.

New Themes

We have 20+ very new and very different themes launching in the next few weeks which will, again, completely transform the look and feel of a SocialGO network.

General Improvements

There are loads of general improvements going live in the coming weeks as well including video in Groups, some cool new promotion tools for your network and also some major optimizations to improve speeds and performance at peak times. 
 
More news soon!
Alex 

This weeks release has gone live. With it a number of fixes below but most importantly, we have pushed an update to Network Styles. There are a range of accross the board changes like photos in the activity feed but there is also the option to have Theme Rounding which can be seen in the above example and on your networks too!

These are now live on your networks and work in Firefox and Safari web browsers. Internet Explorer does not support rounded corners using CSS without doing a lot of heavy custom code.

Don't like the new rounded look? Then you can disable it!
Just head over to your Admin Center and you can turn it off.



Other changes include :

- Changed browse members from order by Most Friends to order by Last Active.
- Delete activity has been fixed up
- Delete Inbox messages now are removed without the delay

Cheers!

Hello, Network Owners!

This week's release is full of fixes - ten to be exact! They range from things that were likely noticeable to most to things that only affected a few, and we’re pleased to announce you and your members should see noticeable improvement in various areas:

• Notification count issues should now be resolved. The notifications were put out of synch by some speed optimizations in the previous deploy, but this should now be resolved.

• Owners should now be able to delete multiple photos on other users' profiles.

• Full-size photos are now being stored on upload alowing products like LabSlide to get larger images from here forward.

• Placing a Break in a blog that contained complex HTML was causing it to break the alignment of the magazine tab. This has now been resolved. All tags are now automatically closed.

• For large forum posts, the View link in the Homepage Widget was taking you past the end of the last page. This has now been resolved and will correctly take you to the correct post.

• SocialGO Legacy Chat has been removed. Free sites automatically get WHO-IM and Premium sites can add the Video Chat Widget for free.

• Public profiles are now accessible when the Layout Manager is enabled.

• The Top Groups ordering is now correct. It is ordering by most popular.

• Custom HTML widgets in the sidebar now follow sidebar visual styling.

As noted in the previous update, The Theme Store is also up and running for SocialGO networks. You can go and preview the themes at http://my.socialgo.com/ before you buy one for your network.

Thanks to all who have reported any issues with your networks and for your flexibility during this period. If you wish to report any discrepancies, please email us at support@socialgo.com

There are many exciting front-end features to be released in the near future, so stay tuned!