Jul 19th

Integrating your network with your existing website

Published by: Alex H on Saturday 19th July 2008

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SocialGO websites work great on their own or as part of your existing online presence. On their own, they act as a self-contained social space for your group to interact online and for you to publish information publicly about your group.

If you have an existing website, your SocialGO network can work side-by-side with it.

Here are a number of ways can integrate the two.

1) Create a link to your new network


It sounds simple, and it is! The easiest way for people to find your new network is to add an additional link into your current websites navigation that goes directly to your SocialGO network. The link can be called "Community" for example.


2) Brand your SocialGO network

In your SocialGO Admin Center you can design your network by adding colours, logos and even custom CSS. This allows you to make the design of your SocialGO network consistent with your site so it feels part of the websites. 


3) Make your SocialGO network a subdomain

If you own a top level domain like http://www.MyCompany.com, then why not use the Custom URL feature in the SocialGO Admin Center to setup a subdomain. You could call it http://community.MyCompany.com or http://talk.MyCompany.com/.


4) Integrate with your existing member database

Ok, this one is not for the faint hearted but if you have technical expertise then you can sync any database contact list with your SocialGO network using our API. This allows you to keep any existing database of people on a forum, mail server, existing community or company intranet synced with your SocialGO network. It saves people having to register with yet another website and ensure that your network becomes 100% useful day 1. For more information, please visit the SocialGO Admin Center.

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