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Booya! Media Launches SocialEngine Mobile App

Booya! Media has created a “white label” social app that’s easy to use, fast and cost effective. Most importantly, you’ll be able to keep your SocialEngine community active and engaged while they’re on the go. Your community members aren’t behind their laptops 24/7, so your SocialEngine community needs to be easily accessible from everywhere your users are. [...]

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Forums vs Social Networks

If you’re considering whether to build a forum or social network, this article should be helpful to you. The mediums through which people interact with one another online is constantly changing. If you take a step back and think about all of the different ways you have communicated with the people in your life in [...]

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SocialEngine PHP 4.5 Released – Performance Improvements & New Modern Theme

Good news! We’ve done another SocialEngine PHP development sprint and finally released SE PHP 4.5 today. Features & improvements New Modern theme Added link support to poll options Performance improvements (improved loading of comment likes in feed, optimized Zend locale data files) Bug fixes Missing attach link icon in composer on mobile Translation support for [...]

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CometChat for SocialEngine Cloud

If you’re looking to add even more value and engagement to your site, look no further than CometChat. In a very straightforward and unobtrusive way, users can chat with others within your Socialengine Cloud community plus those outside like on Facebook, Google Chat and other social networks for example. You’ll also get real time translation, [...]

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New SE Cloud Features: Anon posting, post-by-email, Clean theme improvements and more!

We rolled out a huge SocialEngine Cloud update today. Here are the highlights:

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Client Spotlight: Kim Starks of VoiceBee

“What’s going on?” An easy enough question to answer, yet more people are finding it increasingly difficult to take time out of their busy lives to connect with one another. Take SocialEngine user Kim Starks for example. Kim has always been interested in people and how they interact with one another. She was inspired to create an online [...]

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SocialEngine PHP 4.3 Released

Fresh from the code quarry! We’ve released the long overdue SE PHP 4.3 upgrade. If you’re a current SocialEngine customer, you can get your hands on it right now from the client area. If you’re not, you can grab a fresh copy here. If you are upgrading, BE SURE to make a complete backup of [...]

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Client Spotlight: Robin Outrilla

In this week’s Client Spotlight, we got to sit-down with someone who has been working tirelessly at giving back to the SocialEngine Cloud community. We are excited to interview Robin Outrilla of AppFarma, another great SocialEngine Cloud community that’s primarily focused on applications in the healthcare space that help you stay fit and monitor your overall well-being.   

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SocialEngine PHP 4.3 Incoming

Hi everyone. As I type, our engineering team is 100% focused on building the upcoming (and very overdue) SE PHP 4.3 update. Here is exactly what we are adding with this update: Various frontend improvements to the default theme Adding any missing pages from the admin’s Layout Editor back to the page selector Various improvements [...]

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New SE Cloud Features & Patches

We are now pushing updates on SE Cloud weekly! We primarily focused on bug fixing and smaller improvements this week: Improvements Added “Create Account” button to sign-in popup Added “Sign In” button to “Create Account” popup Added Facebook and Twitter share buttons to inline composer (above activity feed) Admin and moderators can now delete comments in [...]

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