Keeping Your Crowdfunding Audience Engaged and Happy

So you’ve successfully completed a crowdfunding campaign – congratulations! But now what? How are you supposed to keep your fans engaged while you try to focus on actually completing your project, especially knowing that most crowdfunding projects don’t make their target shipping dates? A custom social community can solve a lot of problems crowdfunding platforms…

Communities Increase Your Odds of Crowdfunding Success

There are several ways online community can increase the money you raise with crowdfunding: Lots of people jump into crowd funding just assuming that they have the right idea and network to get to their funding goal easily.  The truth, according to a PC World article (The Crowdfunding Caveat: Most Campaigns Fail) and statistics from…

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…

Build an Online-Offline Community, Exceed Crowdfunding Goals

The best way to collaborate is with community. In the world of crowdfunding and online connectivity, community can be defined as any group of people who share your passion, hobby or vision enough that they are willing to open their wallet and chip in. In other words they are willing to “show you the money.…

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SocialEngine: A 2015 CMSCritic Award Winner

A couple years back we had the honor of receiving the CMSCritic award for Best Social Networking Solution. We were given this award thanks to all of you who took the time to show your support by voting for us at cmscritic.com and this year we want to do it again!Nominations are currently open for the 2015 CMSCritic awards…

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Build Your Own Interest-Based Online Community

Forbes Magazine recently published an article titled, “Are Interest-Based Networks the Way of the Future?” Writer Drew Hendricks explored the idea that people naturally come together and prefer to be with others with whom they have something in common. “Today, our tribes are often found online. These are the sites where we gather, share information, discuss…

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Five Reasons to Start a Branded Community

Milllenials and Generation Z have forced many marketers and business owners to realize just how powerful branded communities are as a business strategy. Because these generations grew up with social media and the internet, they expect more meaningful relationships with the companies they choose to buy products from. Though a select few brands have enjoyed brand…

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Important compatibility fix for websites using PayPal

If you use SocialEngine Self-Hosted and have PayPal enabled for collecting membership fees, this affects your site. We’ve recently received an email from PayPal titled “Immediate Action Required” in which they’ve mentioned that due to vulnerability to version 3 of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL 3.0), they will discontinue support for SSL 3.0 on December 3rd,…

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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…

How To Create An Online Community

How To Create an Online Community with SocialEngine

So you want to create a Social Network, and you want it to be vibrant. What are some things you can do to make sure you’re successful? First, you have to accept that humans are tricky things. You can’t write a formula for how to grow a community, or at least if you can, I’ve…