New: Lifestream Administration & Shoutbox
The lifestream on the main page is the eye-catcher of many mixxt communities. It shows teasers of the latest events and recent changes and leads the visitor to the respective entries or member profiles. Until now – depending on the privacy settings of each community – it automatically displayed new content (like images, forum or blog/posts or wiki pages) as well as new members, friendships or member profile updates from a period of 14 days.
Since last week’s update, the new “Lifestream Administration” allows all admins who have created their own community with mixxt for free to determine what content (selected by content modules) and how many entries and/or days should be displayed. The “Lifestream” entry in the community administration leads to the following view:
Shoutbox
In addition to this configuration, we have added a feature which virtually revolutionizes our lifestream: We set up a “Shoutbox” for the administrator, who is now able to post urgent news, comments or instructions straight into the lifestream. This gives the community manager the chance to distribute targeted information to all members in a comfortable but unobtrusive way.
The shoutbox uses a WYSIWYG editor which includes the usual formatting options and even allows adding links, tables and images:
Delete entries
Another highlight: Via the new lifestream admin, individual activities can now be deleted from the lifestream. On one hand, this is useful to clean the lifestream from outdated shoutbox entries, but on the other hand it enables the administrator to influence the design and attractiveness of the main page in a new way.
Enjoy the optimisation of the main page in your community! And as always, the whole mixxt team highly appreciates our customers’ and users’ comments and feedback.
Tags: activities, community, create your own community for free, lifestream, shoutbox, social network, update
