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Thu
6th
New Features Today!
FEATURED GROUPS
So perhaps you have 200 groups on your network but you want to give some of them the spotlight? Well now you can with Featured Groups. Simply head over to a groups profile (as an administrator) and hit the new Feature Group button.
Then simply go and drag the featured groups widget to the top of the groups list and your done!
VIDEOS IN GROUPS
A long-time requested feature is the ability to add videos to your groups. Again, you will need to drag the widget into your Group Profiles, but once that is done, your member will be able to upload videos galore to your group profiles. Simple!
MEMBER LEVELS + NEW MEMBER MANAGER
The Member Manager has been updated to allow sorting by column headings, better searching and easier navigation. In addition you will also find a new sub-tab called Member Levels.
We will soon be hooking this into our MEMBER BILLING system so that you can charge people to access premium areas of your site. This will be a fantastic way of generating serious revenue from your network by upselling your members from a free account to a paid account. We will also be introducing support for ClickAndBuy.com and revamping our PayPal support to give all network owners the opportunity to build profitable networks on SocialGO.
And finally.....
SocialGO is also working on some in-house widgets including an integration pack for BuyItSellIt.com, probably one of the best shopping carts around and a range of other heavily requested features which we will be getting out the door in the coming weeks.
The Lab is also producing new and exciting widgets and we have 30+ new and improved themes coming to the Theme store.
I am excited and i hope you are too! As always we are here to help at support@socialgo.com. We will be doing a Workshop today on these new features if you want to come and take a look or if you have any questions.
Cheers!
Mon
20th
What's Coming Soon to SocialGO
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
Fri
3rd
SocialGO Networks Get A Facelift
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!
Mon
22nd
We want to feature your network!
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!
Thu
18th
This week's release
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 :
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.
