SocialEngine - Community Software

3 Ways to Keep Your Online Community Positive

A successful online community is all about a positive and supportive atmosphere. With that, members and managers can be transparent, helpful, and direct about the messages they share. The only downside is the inevitable complaining about the other guys. Some members may be so excited they found your community that they start bashing other less-supportive…

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Why It’s Imperative to Create Your Own Branded Community

Terms like “community” and “find your tribe” are the new buzzwords of digital marketers. Newbies will automatically believe these words mean having a large following on social media or simply having high page views on their blog or website. In actuality, community and tribe refer more to the connectedness of the leader and the community…

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3 Tips for Successful Community Management

A successful brand is more than its flashy online presence. It’s a community. Managing your brand followers takes more than regular tweets. It takes a purposeful brand to lend an active ear and offer meaningful, solution-driven content. As you build your branded space online for loyal fans, keep these three tips in mind for successful community management. Keep…

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Fantastic Social Features for a Successful Online Community

When building an online community, social features are an essential part of the mix. They can help establish a loyal membership, help you advertise via free media outlets (Facebook, Twitter, etc), and help your users connect in meaningful ways. One of the reasons we’re SocialEngine is that we give you these tools to help you…

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Vote for SocialEngine

Thanks for nominating SocialEngine in the CMS Critic’s Choice Awards! We are one of the three finalists in the “Best Social Network Software” category thanks to your nominations. Now that we have made it to the finals, it’s time to get out and Vote to help us win this thing! You can vote up until January…

Crowdfunding: What You Need to Keep the Post-Campaign Momentum Going

Crowdfunding is a fantastic way to build buzz around your start-up, art project or social cause. But what happens when that campaign is over? It’s often difficult to keep the momentum going in the lag between raising money and fulfilling your project goals. Customer Social Networks Drive Engagement You don’t actually own your backer list…

Join SocialEngine’s The Hive Today!

Many of us SocialEngine members maintain our own digital communities. And sometimes we need help! This is why we would like to introduce The Hive, a community-minded resource for managers of SocialEngine sites. The Hive is devoted to supporting individuals to find resources on how to best manage their communities. SocialEngine is a Self-Hosted software…

Enabling Legacy themes

Responsive and Legacy themes

We have some very exciting news. On February 12th we will be releasing brand new fully responsive themes for SocialEngine Cloud! We have been working very hard to bring responsive themes to you and we are very proud of the final product. We think you’re going to love them. For everyone who currently has customized their…

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SocialEngine: CMS Critic’s People’s Choice Award Winner

A little while ago we sent out a tweet to you guys letting you know that we were in the running for CMS Critic’s People’s Choice Award for Best Social Networking Solution. The turnout was absolutely fantastic and we ended up winning! Check out the full article here.We wanted to thank CMS Critic  for letting…

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New SE Cloud Features – Rich Content in Posts, Live Activity Feed, Leaderboards…

We are way overdue for an update on our progress with SocialEngine Cloud! Here are some cool new things we’ve recently added to the platform: Rich content posts might be the most notable recent addition. We’ve integrated a nice WYSIWYG editor that your members can use to compose posts with interesting formatting and embedded content.…