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Dear GROU.PS Users,

We are proud to announce that our uptime for February 2012 was
98.89% reaching one of the highest uptime so far. Stay in tuned as our engineers continue to develop.

Any issues, questions or concerns, shoot an email over to plans@groups-inc.com.

GROU.PS Team
TRANSLATION CHALLENGE 2012

Proud of your mother tongue? Wish users could use GROU.PS in your language? Want to put your translation ability to the challenge?

Participate in GROU.PS Translation Challenge 2012 and compete against other administrators in translating GROU.PS into your language!

Winners will be picked in each language by professional translation consultants, and will receive 3 months of free subscription!

The Challenge is open to almost any language, including the ones already in use. To participate, please send your name, group, and language to omer@groups-inc.com. Once Challenge opens, we will send you language files and the language editor.
Dear GROU.PS Users,

It's about time for another update -- the fabulous members of our tech team have been working continuously to provide best service in GROU.PS platform.

There are many improvements and small fixes that have been implemented already. But here are the highlights:

Activity Rank is back and it is available for Gold and Platinum Plans now! 

A tool unique to GROU.PS! This is a point and reward system that lets you measure and rank members’ content contributions and then extend moderation privileges to members based on these rankings.

7-day FREE Trial Period : New GROU.PS users will now be able to try the full version of any plan in the 7-day FREE Trial Period. This will be applied to all plans. No charges will be made if you unsubscribe within 7 days following your signup!

Go ahead and create a site now or spread the word:  
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Dear Customers,

 

Here at GROU.PS, we take great pride in developing the technology to power your online communities. Your trust and support mean the world to us, and we promise to do all we can to improve our service to you.


Due to rising salaries and server costs in the new year, we regret to inform you that we must raise prices to meet costs. We appreciate your understanding. With your continual support we will be able to deliver to you many additional apps and features in the coming months, to provide you with unsurpassed customer support, and to meet our goal of developing the best private social platform available. Please be assured that we will continue to honor all existing yearly subscriptions at their current prices until expiration, and all existing monthly subscriptions until June 1st, 2012.

Please see http://grou.ps/home/pricing for details.


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Hello everyone,


We've got some maintenance work scheduled for 09 Feb – heads up! Here are the details:

 

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Dear all,

We have now created a section "GROU.PS Video Tutorials" in Founders' Network homepage: http://www.groups-corp.com

You can watch one of the video tutorials demonstrating how easy it is to design your site, add modules or make any necessary changes you wish in your site.

Our free video tutorials are designed with all user levels in mind from the very basics through to advanced giving a general overview of the platform and going into details with certain modules and blocks.

 It'sall here in "GROU.PS Video Tutorials". The section will be updated regularly and you will be able to find answers to all your questions and "how to"s in just couple of minutes.

http://www.groups-corp.com/videos

Enjoy!
Dear users,

Firstly, I’d like to thank you for being a subscriber to the GROU.PS platform! My team and I strive to provide our customers with the best possible service and products, which means it’s very important to us to hear from every single customer. I’d just like to reach out and ask if you’d mind sharing a customer testimonial or comment you have when it comes to GROU.PS. As part of our Customer Retention project, we would like to create a new section on our homepage and put your words and testimonials in there and promote your site as well!

While you should contact Customer Support with any urgent or technical issues affecting your group (plans@groups-inc.com), I’d really love to hear just your general opinion and any other feedback you can offer about your experience as a customer so far. You do not necessarily have to give response to each question belo
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Best Practices- Part 3 of 3: Advertise Your Network

“Today there is too much noise in the internet world of advertisement. People have naturally adapted to avoid random messages, banners and irrelevant material.  Not only does irrelevant material fatigue your audience but it also disables your audience to engage with your group. Filter your content and provide your audience with what they need. Make your content relevant to your specific audience.  With relevant content the crowd will naturally create hype for you. In other words organized content is essential in attracting people.”

Doğan Balamir Nazlıca, Director of Sales & Marketing at
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Best Practices- Part 2 of 3: Page Layout and Design


The foremost trend in contemporary web design on the Internet is for designs to be simple, aesthetic, balanced and harmonious. This is what makes the difference.”

Serkan Alp, Director of Services and Design at GROU.PS



Too often, site administrators eager to share content on their networks with their members overdo it, and unintentionally bombard visitors with too many images, texts and cluttered page designs. The most successful

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