What's up SE Fans? Are you a visual person? Well we just wanted to let you know that our good friends from SocialEngineMarket.com has just created a wonderful video resource site dedicated to "visually" showing you how to customize/utilize SocialEngine. The webite is called SocialEngine.Tv - make sure you check them out.Read More »

We are a software vendor and copyright owner, and we hate SOPA. SocialEngine is different than most online community-building tools. While our platform is commercially-licensed and not open source, we do give our customers total access to our source code. We don’t compile or encrypt anything because we want our customers to have complete creative freedom when they customize their community websites. The downside of making our source code accessible is, you guessed it... piracy. SocialEngine is widely pirated and not terribly hard to find in the Internet’s murkier recesses. Ostensibly, the SOPA/PIPA legislation is designed to protect intellectual property ...Read More »

Thank you all for a great 2011! We've released some awesome features with 4.2, as well as the usual flurry of bug fixes and tweaks. These are core features, so they are free for all of you! 4.2 is now available to download in the client area, and we will be releasing the 4.2 trial within a week. As always, please be sure to backup your database before upgrading or making any changes! List of features: reCAPTCHA - Free service that will help prevent spam bots from registering on your SocialEngine site. Read More »

Hello SE Fans, Want to stop bots from registering to your SocialEngine site? reCAPTCHA is the solution! reCAPTCHA is a completely FREE SERVICE that makes it harder for spam bots to register on your site. Below is a screenshot of it in action. You might have already seen this feature in action in many of the popular websites you visit like Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube. It's a pretty effective anti-spam tool and we are going to incorporate it ...Read More »

Whats up SE Fans! We just wanted to showcase another upcoming feature for the next version of SocialEngine - Janrain, a web application that offers site registrations and login with Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo!, and other social networking services. The main purpose of this feature is to help you optimize your site for social media and increase your member registration rates by offering your visitors more options to register on your site. You can learn more about Janrain here: http://janrain.com Below are a some screenshots of it in action: Here are the list ...Read More »

This blog post is to showcase some screenshots of our upcoming new theme - made by one of our founders and original front-end designer, Alex. The theme color is inspired by Google Plus simple, but elegant "Black, Grey, and White" style design. The theme is very "Clean," thus we are calling it "Clean" and making it our official default theme! This new theme will be releasing with the next version of SocialEngine. Guest HomePage Read More »

I've been in the web development business for roughly 13 years now. In that time frame, search engines have become far more sophisticated with their use of technology in determining page ranking results. It use to be that you could just create a website, submit the site into a web directory, and then see it at the top of the search results. Those days have obviously passed. One thing I'm certain ...Read More »

Presentation is an important element when creating your community. How are you representing your idea visually? In what ways can design improve the experience? A glance at our client showcase sites demonstrates how differently a SocialEngine website can be themed. Our default themes provide some variety, but for those you who find these themes too limiting, you do have some options. Create Your Own Theme: Customize the styling of the site yourself, or hire a developer to assist you. Third-Party Themes: Browse the selection of themes and contact the developers directly ...Read More »

Do you want to scale your SocialEngine websites' width according to the size dimensions of your users web browser/monitor? This video guide will teach you how to accomplish that by creating a "fluid style" utilizing the theme editor. Make sure to subscribe to our channel: SocialEngineTvRead More »

Want to move your data into the SocialEngine platform? The following blog is a list of supported import tools that can be utilized for importing your data into SocialEngine. SocialEngine 3 to 4 Migration Ning Member Importer Ning Archive Importer phpFox Importer (3rd Party) vBulletin to SocialEngine (3rd Party) Migration from iForum 3 to SE4 Forum (3rd Party) Blog Importer for Wordpress, Blogger, and Tumblr (3rd Party) For your reference, we've added an article here: http://www.socialengine.net/support/article?q=211&question=List-of-Import-Tools-for-SocialEngine If you've developed or are looking to develop an import tool for SocialEngine, please contact ...Read More »