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SE Cloud updates: LinkedIn, lightbox, and REST API beta

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…

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SE Self-Hosted 4.2.9 – Improved Search and Messaging

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…

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SE Self-Hosted 4.2.9 and 4.3: Preview

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…

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SE Self-Hosted 4.2.8 – Updated TinyMCE and Activity Feed

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…

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SE Self-Hosted 4.2.8: Sneak Peek

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…

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SE Cloud is now mobile friendly!

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…

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New SE Cloud Feature: Daily highlights emails

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…

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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…

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SE Cloud Template Docs Released

The SocialEngine 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…

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SE Self-Hosted 4.2.7 – Improved Content and Community Creation

Thanks everyone for the substantial feedback we received from our last SocialEngine self-hosted Roadmap post, our survey and via email. Expect an announcement post from us next week that will outline our 4.2.8 release goals featuring items we’ve gathered thanks to your feedback. This, 4.2.7, is a minor release focused on a few fixes and features as…