SocialRoster Blog

SocialRoster as a Content Management Tool

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So we’ve had a few leagues using SocialRoster and are getting ready for a big fall season and one trend we noticed is that League Organizers find themselves posting updates both on their site as well as SocialRoster.  As many Organizers already have their own url and site where people are used to checking for information we have decided to make a suite of Content Distribution tools where you can snag widgets from SocialRoster and it will update your website as well as update all users SR and Facebook profiles and send out text and email updates to a scheduling change or just an update.

If you have suggestions on different platforms Organizers use to publish their sites that you would like us to make sure our widgets are compatible with, please let us know at feedback@socialroster.com  Right now we are just working on standard iframe widgets.

More on this coming soon.

Sneak Peak at Facebook App

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We have been busy putting together a help wiki for everyone and had to take quite a lot of screenshots of the new site so I figured I’d share a few to give you a sneak peak at the new Facebook App and some of the functionality.

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Here’s the Dashboard:

And here’s what the Captain’s “Manage Teams” Dashboard will look like.

Here’s what an invite will look like in your Facebook Notifications.

And here’s what your updates will look like in your newsfeed.

Product Development and More New Developers

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We just wrapped up our second real developer meeting (with more than one developer) and we are proud to say we now have a team of freelance, part time, contract developers working on SocialRoster.

Today we went through and prioritized a long list of projects as well as finalized a lot of bugs and and feature enhancements that users have been asking for.

We also finalized the date in which we would move over a Cloud server, Mosso.com which will be April 12th (Easter Sunday).  We assume all those Easter celebrators will be off Brunching and hunting for easter eggs and they won’t mind if our site goes down for a couple hours.  I will make another post and twitter when that is going to happen so you can plan accordingly.

Also, we decided come hell or high water, we will be pushing out the new release on April 12th (probably live April 13th) with Facebook Connect, our Facebook App, and our new more user friendly Scheduler which will be much better for massive amounts of teams. (will also have Excel export).

Also stay tuned for our new product developments as we’ve nailed down a couple great features to be coming in the next release (not the April 13th one) that will include:

• Blog-Style Organization, Team, and League Pages
• Snaggable Upcoming Games Widget to put on your website, your facebook page, your myspace page, your igoogle page…or wherever you want
• Snaggable Registration Widget so you can register players from your own website or anywhere else on the internet.
• A bunch of optional fields and customizable fields for League registrations so you can ask things like tee shirt size, tee shirt color, require that players put in their phone number, or ask them what their favorite type of beer is.
• Optional Captain Bond pricing so you can charge the captain of a team an extra bond fee that they lose if they forfeit games.
• Event registration so you can organize marathons, fund raisers, or just general free events.
• Class Registration so you can manage signups for fitness classes and sell package deals or class by class registrations with a waiting list.
• Eventli.st, Loca.ly, and Socia.ly……we’ll tell you more about these later ;-)