It is our great pleasure to announce the approaching date for our highly anticipated community upgrade We’ll be upgrading our systems on September 28 & 29 and adding great new features and functionality.

Here’s an overview of the enhancements:

Customizable Home Page Layout

You control your primary view of the community site by using the ability customize the layout of your personal community home page. Select the layout from a drag and drop interface that allows you to choose the layout and widgets to include in your view.

Customizable Widgets for the home page and profile view:

•     Friend activity

•     RSS subscriptions. (Customizable to include any RSS feed into the view)

•     Watch/follow a user

•     Popular bookmarks

•     Your groups

•     HTML (embed a YouTube video, display photos from your Flickr account or link to your most frequently visited pages.)

Add friends and update status

Search and add friends within the community. Get updates on your friends’ status and activities from within your customized community homepage.

Other General platform improvements

•     User friendly rich text editing for thread posts and comments.

•     Improved search within community

•     Full screen view of topics and posts at all levels

Ability to Join Administrator Created Groups.

Users have the ability to search and join groups that are created by community administrators.  Users can track the involvement and activities of other group members.

In order to make these changes, we will be putting the forum into “Read-Only” mode for 48 hours. This is required in order to upgrade all of our data systems. If you have any questions, feel free to post here or email me at toby.guillette@active.com