Tips and Tutorials

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…

Our YouTube channel has a selection of helpful video guides you can follow when tampering under the hood of your SocialEngine community.  We provide installation and upgrade services at a price, but you can always do it yourself using our tutorials.  Check out our latest updated videos by our tech, Matthew. Installation Guide: This tutorial will…

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…

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…

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,…

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. As SocialEngineAddons, an…

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…

Social media interaction is often as visual as it is textual. Facebook’s billion dollar acquisition of Instagram, and the popularity of photo-sharing focused services like Pinterest, Flickr, Tumblr and others, means people enjoy sharing photos, and may even expect your community to offer these sharing features. Of course, photos may not be right for every…

So you’re ready to create a social networking community with SocialEngine. To start, you need a server. Already have one? Great! Don’t have one? No sweat. It’s as simple as signing up with a company like Arvixe who offers optimized servers configured for SocialEngine. Arvixe is not your only option either. Really, any server that…

SocialEngine is more than just a turnkey solution. A visit to our customize section demonstrates how dynamic a SocialEngine site can be with custom development. Modifications, simple or extreme, result in a social networking website specialized for you and your community. Sounds great, right? So how do you start? One place is our documentation section.…