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October 26th Release
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.
This Week's Release
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!
Update on Outage
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
Today's Outage
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.
New E-mail verification system now live.
From today onwards, anyone who signs up to your network will be required to verify their E-mail address upon registration. This means that log-in will not be possible until they have done so.
It's a simple process - all they have to do is head to their E-mail Inbox and click the link provided. We've done this to ensure that all network owners have an up-to-date, accessible database of their members contact information. It will also really improve the delivery rate when you send a 'mass message' to all your members. Super!
As always - comments/queries/issues can be send to our friendly staff at support@socialgo.com. Cheers!
Chat, Facebook Connect, Zemanta, API Docs

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.
GO Setup & Design Widget
Don't worry! The GO Setup & Design Widget is just for you. For $349.99 one time fee the design and tech team that developed SocialGO will do it all for you. They will design a network logo, create a professional network look and configure the layout and settings of your network to suit your needs. They will also set-up member subscriptions (if you have taken the Member Billing Option) and help you setup Google advertising and Analytics for you on your network so you can make money and track your members. Included in the price is up to 10 hours of design & layout time which has to be used within 2 months of buying the widget. Plus you get a widget and/or theme up to the value of $50 included.
Upon purchase of this widget, an account manager will be in touch with you within one working day to get the ball rolling. If you have any questions please contact support@socialgo.com.
To buy the Go Setup & Design Widget please go to your Admin Centre http://my.socialgo.com and click on the Widget Tab.
Note: We can not do any custom development work with the API as part of the GO Setup & Design service, but are happy to recommend professionals that will.
Awesome New SocialGO Themes
Take a look at just a few of some of the slick new designs:

Woody Blue

