July 21, 2009

How to create a social networking website

Filed under: Web services — Tags: , , — admin @ 11:03 pm

If you are looking to create a social networking website, either for you or your employer you have noticed there are number of options. Even if you had created websites or online businesses in the past you might have noticed creating social networking sites are challenging. We have polled a number of people contacted us for creating their social networking sites, why they have not finished anything yet. Some of these people had some really killer ideas. But they still fail to create a social networking websites. One thing we realized from their responses was that you get overwhelmed with information and the tasks.

We developed the social networking script 3-4 years back and helped number of social networks to go online. So we have created a small email course How to create a social networking website . It’s a free email course, anybody who wants to create and grow their social networking site can join. We have helped thousands of our customers to create and grow their rock solid communities. We put our lessons learned from those experiences to your use.

So if you want to create and grow your own social networking website, this is for you.

February 17, 2009

iScripts Socialware 2.2 is released

Filed under: New Versions, Web Scripts — Tags: , — admin @ 11:33 pm

We have just released iScripts Socialware 2.2 to make the social networking software even better and reliable. The key feature introduced in the new release is a point system and improvement to the job posts section and layouts.

As you know one of the key factor to keep any social community grow is to keep the members engaged. The point system allows social community managers to create a way to engage the members to reward for being active. The point system is fully configurable and admin can decide how many points for which activities. The sample activities include inviting others to join the community, writing a blog, forum post, adding video, picture etc.. This encourages users to add more content and members to the social network. Members have a leader board that show where members with the points. Also members can redeem the points for virtual gifts or real gifts as decided by the social network admin.

In the job postings section now any member can post jobs. This is nifty feature to have a paid membership plans. If you have local community network sites, you can have a paid plan for local businesses. One of their perks is to post jobs in the community. Other regular members can potentially apply to the jobs.

We have also added a number of new professional layouts. Now you have around 30 beautiful layouts or themes to choose from. These layouts cover number of industries and community types. So pick one that best suits your future community or we can create a custom design from scratch.

In addition to it we have improved a lot of minor things across the website. We have paid attention to improving the usability of the website from administrator perspective and end user perspective.

You can test drive the new version at the live demo.

As usual the new release is a free upgrade if you purchased a license in the last 12 months. Others can upgrade if they have an extended support/upgrade plan. You can purchase a extended support/upgrade plan for $50 per year.

Please let us know your feedback on the new version.

May 22, 2008

iScripts Socialware 2.0, the social networking script, is released with improvements

Filed under: New Versions, Web Scripts — Tags: , — admin @ 11:36 pm

Many of our visitors has been inquiring about version 2.0 for the last few months. I am happy to announce iScripts Socialware 2.0 is finally out of beta and is released . You will find the new version at http://www.iScripts.com/socialware. Some of the main improvements for iScripts Socialware 2.0 over previous release are the payment gateway support and audio/video sharing.

Initially when social networking was introduced it was a free community. Over the last couple of years new business models for social networking communities have emerged to make paid membership community a viable option. So if you have an idea where you think members will pay you to join, iScripts Socialware is for you. Your job is to create value to your members so that they will pay you. Of course if you prefer the advertising supported model for revenue generation, Google Adwords and regular banners are natively supported. Another revenue generation avenue is the gift store. You can have either virtual gifts or physical gifts in the store and your members can purchase them with virtual money or real money. If you are making the community portal for your friends and family, you can make it completely free and without any ads. No problem.

Audio/Video sharing support is a natural extension that many of our existing users have been requesting. Your members can upload their audio/video content or link it from other sources like Youtube. The admin can decide if you want to host the videos on the server or you just want to let the users link to other sites or if you do not want anything to do with videos. Most audio/video formats are supported.

Another important improvement is increased flexibility for the administrator to create the unique community experience. Administrator can enable or disable around fifteen different features for the community. You can pick and choose the features to create unique community for your members. We have also added a number of different layouts for the users to select for the site based on the core theme of your community. Overall security of the product is also significantly improved from previous versions. For existing customers, there is an upgrade script for upgrading from previous releases to 2.0 version. New version is free cost for all those who purchased iScripts Socialware in the last one year.

The price of this social networking software platform is still unchanged and is $99.95 for a limited time. As usual this is the total fees, no monthly/yearly fees. The product is completely open source, nothing is encrypted. So you can make any customizable . We are also available to make any changes to the product. If you require any type of customizing please let us know we will be happy to provide a firm quote.

May 23, 2007

iScripts SocialWare – The Social Networking Software Platform

Filed under: Web Scripts — Tags: — admin @ 12:13 am

The word social networking rose from obscurity to main stream last year. It could very well be the focal point of the second round of web. We see a number of companies creating huge virtual communities for social, professional and romantic interests. These companies like Myspace, Orkut, Tribe, LinkedIn, Friendster, Indiapage and Visible Path, rolled out new or improved services that let users create online identies with their circle of real-life acquaintances. The idea was mainly to let users build online profiles that advertised their interests and to help them connect with friends and friends-of-friends around one of those interests — whether it be finding a job, finding a new venture partner, making a sale, or finding a jogging buddy.

Majority of these companies except friendster and myspace had a sluggish start. However most of these companies grew exponentially recently due to the by nature of social networking. They have also incorporated a number of money making programs in these sites to make it viable in the long run. Today there is no doubt social networking is a real business with real business plan.

Most of the social networking sites are based on broad vertical markets today. For example LinkenIn as the professional group, facebook for college campuses etc.. We believe the next round of social networking would be for smaller closely knit groups. For example sites as part of communities exist in the real world. Examples are local youth groups, schools, colleges, business associations, and independent businesses. One of the main challenge has been the time and cost associated with the software required to create these web applications for smaller groups with limited budgets.

The user created content in the social networking sites is the greatest asset for the communities. Value creation at the edge is a great way to keep the user communities adding value to the main entity it serves, let it be a business or social organization.

iScripts has introduced a social networking software platform called iScripts Socialware. This is a new open source software to create social networking sites in a few minutes. A highly customizable software which can be used to create social networking sites for different communities. The number of customizable themes are targeted for different communities.

This software is available for purchase at http://www.iScripts.com/socialware . An online working demo is also available at the site. This script is written in PHP with mySQL backend and is currently priced at $149.95.

A number of common modules like chats, forums, bogs etc.. are available. Also some unique modules virtual gift store etc.. are also available to make your site into revenue generating site. Few more of the modules are planned for the next product release, which are already into the planning stage.

Here is some of the main features implemented in iScripts SocialWare software:

· Private Mailbox

iScripts SocialWare provides a mailbox for all its users with this a user can compose, draft, check mails. This is to allow private conversations between users without leaving the site.
· Blogs
Create a unique blog using iScripts SocialWare. Users can share thoughts, opinions, stories, favorite music, movies, books and anything else with others .Admin can add different blog templates for the users to select from.
Chat
Have online chat with other visitors on the live chatroom.
Forum
Create any number of discussion forums and make comments on others forums
Groups
Stay connected to friends who share similar interests or affiliations by joining a group .This will allow members to create a community within a large community.
Gifts
Send real gifts to other users by paying the amount to the site owner if payment is enabled or virtual gifts to other users by paying virtual money if payment is disabled.
Events
Users can post events and organize parties and get-together quickly and easily by using this event management.
Classifieds
Users can post any number of classified ads on any categories .They can send responses to classifieds posted by other users.
Photo Album
Users can create photo album and add any number of photos to these albums.
Powerful search
The powerful search lets users to search and find users matching various search criteria.

Communities
Users can build comminutes using “invite a friend” feature.

Multiple Administrators
The site admin can create multiple admins with different permissions so that the site could be managed by various admins with varying powers.

Module Management
The site admin can enable or disable decide which modules needs to displayed to the user.

Centralized Site Management
The settings panel lets admin to predefine user approval type, album approval type , payment gateway information etc

Multiple Themes
The admin can set different themes so the site appearance changes. Currently there are 4 themes. These themes include social, professional, romantic etc..
Switch Mode
The admin can switch the mode between live and down for maintenance , so the user can understand if the site has been closed for maintenance.

As with all other iScripts products, iScripts SocialWare is an open source software product. This means customers can modify the software to meet their specific requirements. iScripts also offers customization services for customers. If you believe the software is close to your requirements, we can customize the software to meet your exact needs. This is true for both look and feel as well as functionalities.

A install wizard is available to install the software in few easy steps. However iScripts can install it for you, if you choose.

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