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Make A Social Network With SocialEngine
A social network is a map of relationships between individuals. Add a laptop, internet connection and some great user experience, and you have an online network where people can interact and connect to one another in meaningful ways using standard, modern features like instant messaging, video chatting, tweeting, commenting, and of course, photo sharing. So [...]
SE Cloud Template Docs Released
The SE Cloud community is growing so much faster than we expected! We’ve been watching you guys build out your sites and have been discussing how we can help you customize your templates more easily. Today we’ve added a new resource that should help tremendously. We’ve rolled out documentation for SE Cloud widgets. These docs [...]
How To Build A Social Network
An online community is more than a flash-in-the-pan marketing or CPC campaign. It’s not something you just ‘set and forget.’ Merriam Webster defines a community as, “a group of people with a common characteristic or interest living together within a larger society.” It’s more important than Facebook Fans, Twitter followers or just about anything you [...]
Guest Post: Paul Rothbein explains how to reach your audience with SocialEngine
This is a guest post by longtime SocialEngine user, Paul Rothbein. Paul provides service consulting for social network creators, and helps his clients market and monetize their communities, including fundraising through services like Kickstarter. He has even traveled to Asia recently to provide marketing support for YouNet, a third-party development team for SocialEngine. Continue reading [...]
Video Tutorials
Our YouTube channel has a selection of helpful video guides you can follow when tampering under the hood of your SocialEngine community. We do provide installation and upgrade services at a price, but you can always do it yourself using our tutorials. Check out our latest updated videos brought to you by our tech, Matthew!
Tips and Tutorials: Groups
Following up on our featured tips highlighting music, mobile, photo sharing, and video sharing, let’s talk about groups. Groups promote discussion and sharing for your members, privately or publicly, with conversations under member control. A tool that naturally organizes members by topics, interests or friendships, groups offer advanced functionality such as event creation, unique admin [...]
Tips and Tutorials: Music Sharing
Jazz up your community with music. As with other industries, music has gone social; Spotify populates Facebook feeds with songs your friends play, Soundcloud connects artists directly with fans, and YouTube commonly hosts audio only music posts with no video. Some say music and social media just seem to go together – 50% of Twitter [...]
Tips and Tutorials: Mobile Engagement
The future is mobile, and optimizing your community for mobile activity is essential as people from all demographics spend more time on mobile devices each year. The International Telecommunication Union estimates that global mobile subscriptions at the end of 2011 reached 6 billion. That means 87 percent of the world’s population has a mobile device, [...]
Tips and Tutorials: Available Blocks Placement
SocialEngine customization begins with the layout of your site. Edit the layout from the Admin Panel to control how members interact with content. Over one hundred blocks are available for you to drag on drop directly on the page you desire to really make your community unique for you and your members.
Tips and Tutorials: Video Sharing
Continuing where our Photo Sharing post left off, let’s talk video! Photos may be in the spotlight recently, but some say videos are next, with Viddy and others racing to be the next Instagram of video. Netflix streams Hollywood to our homes, we upload clips to the web—one hour of video is uploaded to YouTube [...]
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