SocialGO® (from the UK) lets you easily create and run a feature-filled social networking website. You choose who can join, what they can do and how it looks and the best part is it's free to get going. Moreover the best beta social network on SocialGo® will win GBP 1000.
It is stand-alone or can simply be bolted onto an existing site if need be. Private or public, it’s your choice. Everyone in your group is included and can get involved in a website where you're in control. Your members run the site... They create the content, invite other friends, message each other and use all the other fantastic features of SocialGO®.
Main features
You can easily provide every member of your group with their own member profile within your SocialGO® site. In this space sits their friends, the content they’ve added to the network and piles of other nifty stuff. Of course, they can customize their profile and privacy settings any way they want. The Wall is another super useful tool much like a personal guestbook where members can leave messages on your profile.
Members of your network can send messages to each other through SocialGO® and keep track of their messages in a conversation view. Group and event owners can message all their members and attendees. You, as the network owner, can message everyone at one time if you choose to. Members receive an email to tell them when a new message is waiting for them.
Bulletins are short messages members can send to their friends, group members, and event attendees or across the whole network. They are a brilliant way of sending information to large groups of people quickly and easily.
If another member of the network is online, you can start a real-time instant messaging conversation with them. This can be a text chat only or in full video and audio. There’s no software to install, all you need is your browser.
Let the minions organize themselves! Members are able to create sub-groups within your network. (You do, of course, have the control to delete these groups if you want.) Within sub-groups, members can still do all the things they’ll come to love from SocialGO® - share photos, message each other, start forum discussions & blogs, and organize events.
All members can upload photos or videos to their profiles, groups or events. These are easily organized into albums and you can share them with other members who can then view and comment on them.
Every member has their own personal blog on their profile. They can drop in photos, videos and other rich content. If they’d like to get their blogs to a wider audience, they also have the option to submit any blog into a communal Magazine tab which you can divide into categories and setup approval rules.
SocialGO® allows members to easily set up forums initiating discussions. Others can then join in and post responses. They can even subscribe to forum updates, so they’ll know immediately the discussion hots up again. Forums can be private (for members or a particular sub-group) or public.
All relevant web content for your group (news, blogs, forums, links, videos, etc.) can be aggregated on your SocialGO® network for your members to read. Not familiar with RSS? No problem… you can use the Google News search engine to easily create custom news results for the things that matter most to your members.
Access control: you can choose exactly who you want to join your network by either password protecting the signup or, if you’d like to be in more control, approving every member personally.
Content moderation: You can delete any inappropriate content on your network and suspend any odious members. And if you need any help, you can elect other people to become your moderators too. As a network owner you can easily set SocialGO® to only activate groups, events and magazine content when YOU are happy with it.
Member importing: you can import all your contacts into your new SocialGO® network manually, from your existing webmail, Microsoft Outlook or any of your Windows address books.
You can customize your design: using the powerful customization tools, you can make your site look exactly how you want. You can add your own sponsors, images, text or anything you like throughout your network to make it truly personal. You can even customize the default help text. With SocialGO® you have the ability to actually change the structure of your entire network.
