Author: James

  • Victory: SocialEngine Wins “Best Social Network Software” Award

    Victory: SocialEngine Wins “Best Social Network Software” Award

        SocialEngine is proud to announce it won “Best Social Network Software” in the 2015 CMS Critic People’s Choice Awards.   First, we want to thank everyone who nominated SocialEngine for this award. Thanks to your help we placed in the top 3 in the category of “Best Social Network Software”. Second, we want to thank everyone who…

  • September and October 2015 Keeping it Rolling Update

    Whoops — I skipped a monthly update, but even though I took a hiatus in September we didn’t stop working or moving SocialEngine forward.  Here’s what went down in September and October: Made serious technical strides to keep up with high goals set for the rebrand Created and continuing to post content on opportunities for crowdfunding / crowdfunded companies…

  • Leverage Online Communities to Enhance Crowdfunding Q&A

    Leverage Online Communities to Enhance Crowdfunding Q&A

    Try SocialEngine for six weeks free, visit http://get.socialengine.com/crowdfunding Most popular crowd funding sites, including Kickstarter, Gofundme, indiegogo and Crowdrise offer a variety of tools to engage your audience.  These include the ability to describe your campaign with words, visuals, videos and, of course, rewards.      A Community Platform Makes It Easier to Answer Common…

  • Keeping Your Crowdfunding Audience Engaged and Happy

    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…

  • Communities Increase Your Odds of Crowdfunding Success

    Communities Increase Your Odds of Crowdfunding Success

    There are several ways online community can increase the money you raise with crowdfunding: Community can help you before you begin crowdfunding by polishing your ideas and your presentation to raise funds Community can do something very important… it can grow your network so that during fundraising the money comes in quickly… and that is…

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

    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…

  • Build an Online-Offline Community, Exceed Crowdfunding Goals

    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.”   An online…

  • Celebrating  Ning and PHPfox Import Scripts with 10 Days of 10% Off SocialEngine PHP

    Celebrating  Ning and PHPfox Import Scripts with 10 Days of 10% Off SocialEngine PHP

        Over the past couple of months SocialEngine has made available importer scripts for Ning 2.0 and PHPfox.   In celebration for the first 10 days of October (Oct 1 – 10) we are offering 10% off your purchase of SocialEngine PHP. Use code “SocialEnginePHP10” at checkout to SAVE 10%.   The Ning and PHPfox scripts have been…

  • August 2015 Keeping it Rolling Update

    The dog days of August? No way. We’re cranking away. Here’s what went down in August: SocialEngine Cloud Comment editing launched Kept up on bug fixes. As always you can look at August Release Notes in our SocialEngine Developer Community SocialEngine PHP Worked on new hosting partnerships Started to set up an enterprise pipeline Promoted…

  • Easily Import a PHPfox community to SocialEngine PHP

    Easily Import a PHPfox community to SocialEngine PHP

      We are happy to announce the launch of a 3rd party PHPfox importer script for SocialEngine PHP.  Developers looking for a PHPfox alternative now have an easy-to-use tool that was throughly tested on large customized PHPfox sites.    PHPfox Import Script is available for purchase at: http://www.socialengineaddons.com/phpfox-importer-socialengine What gets imported? The SocialEngineAddOns PHPfox importer tool will transfer:…