SocialGO Owners

ARE YOU READY TO CHECK OUT THE NEW FEATURES & WIDGETS OF SOCIALGO? Tune in to this exciting workshop to find out what's to come!

On Thursday, August 6th at 5:00 p.m. GMT (12:00 p.m. EST, 9:00 a.m. PDT), we will be running this unique workshop

• Network Store
• Lab Connect
• LabAds
• WordPress Plugin
• ...and more

This will be a really informative and interesting workshop that you won't want to miss! If you would like to be a part of this workshop, please email us at workshops@socialgo.com or click the link below for more info!

WIN free your next 12 months of subscriptions!

SocialGO are offering 3 lucky premium network owners free SocialGO subscription for the next 12 months.

All you have to do is simply update your payment details in your Admin Centre at http://my.socialgo.com and you’ll be entered to win. To do this follow these simple steps:

1. Go to your Admin Centre at http://my.socialgo.com
2. Login in using your email and password
3. At the bottom of the “Overview” page click on “Edit Card Details”
4. Type in your most recent credit card details and click enter
5. That's it!

The competition is only open for seven days.

Good Luck!

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!

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!

Hello All,

Do you run a popular SocialGO network? If YES then we want to know! We are looking for some more featured networks to put on SocialGO.com to promote some of the amazing things that people are doing with our platform.

Drop me a line on alex@socialgo.com and we will get you loads of great traffic.

Cheers!

Hello Owners!

It has been a while since we have posted an update on what is happening here at SocialGO HQ so here it is :

This week's release contains a number of small fixes for issues including :

• Months in the Archives in the magazine stopping after 6
• A Read More link appearing if you use the Split feature when writing a blog. 

The dev team have been working a number of behind-the-scenes scaling and infrastructure projects which has meant we haven't had as much time as we would have liked to pump out nice new front-end features. But thankfully we are now coming to the end of this and it's time for the new features to start rolling out again.
Next week's release is already a hum-dinger with loads of great things that will add visible value to your network. It's going to be a great few weeks ahead!

The guys at WidgetLaboratory are pumping out new widgets, with 3 in the last week alone including a Wordpress integration widget, a Miro feed plugin widget for publishing your videos and LabTabs, the ability to add custom drop-down tabs to your network.

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.

A great few weeks are ahead! Can't wait to show you what we have in store for you.

SocialGO are excited to announce the launch of the SocialGO Affiliate Program, an easy way to earn money from your network based on a simple referral basis. For each person who signs up for a paid SocialGO network through your site, you will earn 50% from the first paid month and 5% for every month thereafter. Yes, it really is this simple - there literally is no limit as to how much money you can earn from this!

All you have to do to start making money is cut and paste some HTML advertising code to a prominent location in your network, or even your own website, and as soon as people start clicking on your ad and creating a network, you'll start to make money! To see how to do this, read this tutorial

To register for the program, head over to http://affiliate.socialgo.com and enter your details. You will then receive an email with your user name and password; simply log in, copy the banner code, and paste it into your website - you are now ready to race! If you have any queries in regards to the program, please write us at support@socialgo.com.

This is an amazing and direct opportunity to earn money from your site, so be sure to take advantage and get signed-up today!