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We've been ecstatic over the popularity of our recently released Twitter Connect widget - it means that SocialGO network owners are tuning in to the importance of Social Media integration in their communities.

To follow suit, we've just launched our   Facebook Connect widget.  How does Facebook Connect enhance a Social Network? Facebook reports it’s user base to be over 300 million users, and that connected users create 15-60% more content on external sites than non connected users. By increasing traffic, user engagement, and registrations, it can significantly affect your revenue and increase monetization opportunities.

- 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. 

 

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Setup is easy:

• Firstly, head over to the widget storage to purchase the widget.
• Second, set-up an account directly with BuyitSellit.com by clicking here.  (Note: you have the choice to take a free account or a premium account depending upon your needs)
• Then, email support@socialgo.com with your SocialGO network URL and your login details to your BuyItSellIt.com account.

Within 2 working days we will setup your store for you under a tab on your network. In the meantime you can begin to preview your content.

Expansion packs will also be available to purchase on a regular basis to increase your game arcade selection.

SocialGO store example:

Twitter Connect is an easily installed widget that allows a user to login to a SocialGO network using their Twitter  account! The user's profile picture will be pulled right from their Twitter account, and they can directly update their Twitter status straight from your SocialGO network.

Want to get started? Here's how:

1) Log in to your admin centre (http://my.socialgo.com) and head over to the Widget Store to grab Twitter Connect.

2) Move on over to the Layout Manager and find the newly installed widget in the 'purchased' section. Drag it over to the main admin column on the left. Once it's there, double click it to open the popup window and leave it open.

3) Now you need to register your network URL with Twitter as an application.  Don't worry! It's easier than it looks. Go to Twitter.com and log in to your account. Then visit the following link and click 'Register a New Application':

http://twitter.com/oauth

4) Fill out the form, guided by the information provided on the widget popup window from your Layout manager. Remember to double check everything when you've finished!

5) Once you have completed the twitter.com Application registration process, twitter will show you a number of keys. The only keys we're interested in are the "Consumer Key" and the "Consumer Secret". Paste both of these into the widget popup window.

Click "Save" and... that's it! A button will appear under the Login area of your network that looks like this:

Using this button, your users will be asked to confirm the connection, and will then be able to Login to your network using their Twitter accounts! Amazing!

We’re ecstatic to announce that you have more ways than ever to handle your subscriptions with the new Member Billing 2.0! Combined with using your Member Levels, you now have the ability to charge people to access premium areas of your site, like your Videos tab. This is a superb way to generate serious revenue and to up sell your members from a Free plan to a paid one. Amazingly, the new system supports free trials, so you can easily offer motivation for people to ‘try it before they buy it’, and it also supports multiple billing providers and accepts more forms of currency than ever before.

First, if you haven’t defined your member levels already, you will need to go to the Member Manager section and do this. You are free to create an unlimited number of levels and to name them whatever you wish. In this example, we’ve used 2 levels - ‘Free’ and ‘Paid’. For instructions on how to create your member levels, please click here.

If you already have Member Billing, you will need to click the 'Upgrade' button in your 'Membership Billing' area.

Now choose the payment details for the 'Paid' level of membership - in this example, we've created a $10.00 monthly fee and added a 30 day free trial. If you were to choose 'Private' for any level, this will ensure the level/plan is unavailable during sign-up and can only be offered and assigned by the network owner manually.

Now you should assign the member levels to the tabs and pages of your network. In this example, we've restricted the access of the Photos tab to 'Paid' members only. You can allow any number of levels to access a tab.

You will see below the results of what is seen during the sign-up process.
Note the paid subscription has '(30 days trial)' beside it to reflect the trial period. We will soon update the text to '30 Days Free Trial' to avoid any confusion.

Videos tab - currently, the system will limit access to the tab but not to the actual video. You will need to disable the Members tab to prevent the viewing of videos to levels that should not have access to them. This is a temporary measure as it will be possible to limit the Video tab's content, without sacrificing another tab, in approximately 2 weeks.

If you have any questions or feedback, as always, let us know by emailing support@socialgo.com.

The newest widgets include TabDoctor, FootDoctor, LabAffiliate, and LabArcade V2. Click the photo icons to be taken to a video example.

If you have ever wanted to purchase a plan and make your payments via PayPal, now you can - we've added PayPal as an accepted form of payment. Feel free to update your payment information via your Admin Center or to use the PayPal option to upgrade your plan!

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

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!

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 

• 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.

• 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.