Blogs

We are getting a TON of feedback from the 600 site creators now active on SocialEngine Cloud. One common issue we’ve seen is that newly created and small communities often have a hard time getting enough engagement – especially commenting and discussions – to get off the ground. We found that the two default SE…

Hey SE Self-Hosted site builders – we’ve just released a new patch that should fix the issues you’ve reported with the last release of SE Self-Hosted.  You can grab it from your client dashboard. Issues fixed in the patch: As always, please make a *complete* backup of your site before you upgrade and be sure…

Hey all, SocialEngine Cloud is now about 2 months old and it’s really starting to take shape! We rolled out some new features and improvements today: LinkedIn sign-in Thanks to the awesome people at Singly, LinkedIn login is now available on all SE Cloud sites. Setup is pretty easy – just visit the LinkedIn settings…

Our latest Self-Hosted release, 4.2.9, is ready for download. Time to backup and upgrade. As we outlined in our preview post, we’ve touched-up search and messaging. Browse the full changelog for more, and contact us for any questions, thanks! Highlights: Have any thoughts? Join the discussion below or message us. Photo by Viv, from this…

Our next update SE Self-Hosted 4.2.9, is on track for an end-of-the-month release. This will primarily feature minor improvements and fixes with development focused on our subsequent SE Self-Hosted 4.3 update. 4.3 feature highlights are overhauls for search and messaging with more to be announced. You can expect 4.3 to be released towards the end…

Happy Halloween! 4.2.8 is now available to download. Please backup before upgrading, and contact us if you have any questions. Thanks to your feedback and survey responses, we’ve overhauled the activity feed and the TinyMCE editor. Next week, we’ll announce our release goals for 4.2.9 so you can see what’s coming next. Here’s the full…

Hello SocialEngine fans! With the help of everyone who participated in our survey and left comments on our blog, we are well under way into the development of version 4.2.8, scheduled for release on 31st October, 2012. The upgrade will be available to download from the client login area at that time. Below is a…

We’ve heard from a ton of SocialEngine Cloud site builders that our biggest feature gap is proper support for mobile browsers. That’s not surprising since we now see that at least 12% of all traffic on the SE Cloud network is coming from mobile devices (9% iOS, 3% Android). We are also seeing that bounce…

One of the key challenges for every online community is retention. Even if you have the most entertaining social network on the web, there are millions of other distractions on the Internet, so don’t take it too personally if your members don’t stay perpetually engaged with your network. That said, you should do everything you…