SocialGO Owners

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!

Join Will and Alex on Friday, July 3 at 5:30 p.m. GMT (12:30 p.m. EST, 9:30 a.m. PDT) for a demo of the SocialGO Premium plan.

Watch how you can transform your network into something unique and on brand to your vision with the Layout Manager, and how you can turn your network into a potential money-maker by placing advertisement code and optional extra features such as White Label and Member Billing on your site. The customization and revenue possibilities of a Premium network are vast, and we will provide you with a comprehensive overview on how to get started with it.

This workshop will be of interest to potential Premium users as well as existing ones as you may learn a thing or 2 you didn't know was possible.

If you would like to reserve a space in this workshop, please email us at support@socialgo.com. If you would like information on all upcoming workshops, then please visit this link and add your details.

It will be nice to see you there!