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New batch of ActiveRain enhancements

We just put up a new batch of enhancements to ActiveRain based off of your requests these past couple weeks. These enhancements are a part of a continuous effort to improve your experience and provide you with more ways to find content.

New filter for blog posts:

Enhancement #1 is an additional filter for browsing blog posts that provides a new way to find posts by who wrote them.

You can now do things such as show only posts written by loan officers or choose to show only the posts targeted to real estate professionals of those bloggers to whom you have subscribed(a request from multiple members). You can even browse through posts made by new members to ActiveRain.

Better featuring and sorting in groups:

1. Now we will have an archived list of past featured posts in groups. The last five featured posts will remain at the top of the group. The rest will be in a separate list.

2. This means there is no need to un-feature posts to clear up space, and you'll be able to check back for past featured group posts.

3. Posts in groups can now be filtered by several criteria besides last update.

Hopefully these updates help the members of ActiveRain, there are plenty more coming down the pipe...

-Matt Heaton (ActiveRain CEO)

Posted by ActiveRain Real Estate Network on 06/06/2007 09:54 AM

Comments (67)

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67 Comments on New batch of ActiveRain enhancements

JUN

2007

That is very cool, Matt. Thank you for letting us know.

Whew ... These will really help with group-organization. Thank you!

Great features - thanks you Matt. This is a great service you provide and it's done us all a ton of good!

Thank you for addressing the group featuring.

That works for me! Thanks Matt!

This is really cool...I like these improvements! Thanks for your work in continuing to make Active Rain easier to navigate. As a group Moderator, this will greatly assist in allowing Featured Posts to be given appropriate recognition & to be sorted through by members & readers.

This will be helpful! Thanks guys and gals!!! Keep up the great work!!!

Matt, the changes have a great look and are extremely helpful to me. A big THANKS for all that you do!

Thanks, this sounds awesome!

Sounds like the featured post improvement will be a big hit with all of the group moderators. Thanks for the enhancements!

This all sounds great, can't wait to go and try it. Thanks Matt!

This is great! Always improving. Thanks!

Good job!

Thank you, Matt, for the improvements, and for the communication effort, too.

I love the new improvements! The group enhancement is great, would love to see more in that arena. Thanks Matt - for all your hard work and efforts, they certainly are appreciated!

This site is going through the roof! It has to be the best out there already! Great job.

As always excellent enhancements. Great job Matt.

Good updates. Thanks Matt. This is a wonderful real estate venue...........

These look like great improvements. Thank for the heads up!

Matt,

One of the great aspects about AR is that it keeps a finger on the pulse of the community and constantly strives to improve the product. We really appreciate that. It'll make all of us more professional.

Thanks again. Active Rain continues to be extremely responsive to the needs of its members, and is constantly improving on an already outstanding product.

Excellent job at keeping us happy and providing us tools we can truly use to our advatnage. Thanks for all of your hard work and efforts.

Cool! These are exciting days.

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Matt-You work tirelessly to improve ActiveRain-Thank you!

Nice updates, i can remember when the network had just a few options. this is pretty darn cool, thx guys!

Sounds like a great idea!

I hope this helps - thanks for making changes to make this even better

Ooo. I like it :)

TLW...ROAR!

I like the new search feature, this should make it much easier for me to find the blogs that I am looking for.

Thanks for always improving active rain. It is by far the number one site I visit everyday.

You are great! I think the new improvements are going to make everyone's experience even better. Thanks for all of your hard work. This is a great experience.

Thank You, Sounds Great!

Hi, I don't know where to go to ask this question, so I'm planting it here in hopes of finding an answer. I'm new to Activerain and have noticed under the statistics page "views" and "clicks" are listed. I feel confidant that "clicks" records the number of people who actually go to my blog and read an entry. What, exactly, does the "view" record?

Thanks in advance for settling the nerves of a newbie.

Keep up the good work guys. Ya'll are awesome.

Thank you. Now it will be easier to keep up with.

Thanskf ro the update guys!

Scott

Thanks for the updates in both types of searches.

I'd still like to be able to sort these by Unread. Some days I don't have time to catch up on all, so leave some unread. Then in future days I have to go through all the Read to get to the Unread, and I know there are lots that get lost along the way.

Thanks for trying to keep on improving. I'll check these things out and see how they work.

The last change to the way featured posts in groups are displayed... takes away one of the ways we were using this....

First is that the newbie group (and other groups) have a read me first post. It is not always at the top, due to other posts that are featured. Now with only 5 features showing on the first page it is even harder to find that 'read me first post'. Without the ability to set one or two at the top, we are left with the choice of either people not finding that or only featuring five posts at a time, so that the 'read me first' is visible.

Another thing is we liked to highlight and remove postings in the Newbie group. It was our way of making sure newer members got welcomed and seen.

I'm sorry to be such a critic, but I think with this change that only 5 posts will now be seen as features, then people will just go down and read the rest of the posts.

Nice! The rain(maker) keeps the good times rollin' Thanks Matt.

Groovy. Thanks. Can we also get AR to deliver Chinese food?

Hi Matt-

As always - thanks for the ongoing improvements.

Thanks Matt - we appreciate the Rain.

Matt, that is a great enhancement! Thanks again for giving us Active Rain!

This was a great feature ! Noticed it in one of my groups today.

Awsome, I like that featured posts can retain their status. Thank you AR team! I noticed the different look of things today and I like it!

Sweet I am stoked, this is great having new features here on AR. It keeps getting better and better and better.

Matt:

Thanks for the upgrades and for your continued responsiveness to the needs of AR and the community. It just keeps getting better and easier to organize.

Now for spellcheck - blog and all permutations :)

A small thing but words we ALL use ALL the time.

Jeff

Matt,

As always, thank you and your team for all the work you do for this great website.

Rita

Matt, great enhancements! Thank you for continually striving to perfect AR!!!

Upgrading this site little by little has made it easier to find what we need. Thanks to all the hard working programmers that keep us happy!

Thanks for this information. I think it is very useful.

Jack

ACTIVERAIN RULES!!! (Like you don't know!)

Thanks for the update, Matt--things just keep getting better here.

Thanks for the updates. I really like the ability to view posts by new member, agents, etc. That will come in really handy when researching complementary services such as VAs or stagers.

The way you guys keep on changing and improving this site...I'll never get over my "Learning Curve" Thanks

Thanks so much for that update...like Joan, I feel as soon as I get comfotable with one thing...popp here comes another....

You just added the "Easy Button" to the blog search....nice.

That is a wonderful new tool. Thank you so much. I love it.

Ok, I'm slow -- I just found this post -- but I was working all day. I love the changes - thank you so much!!!

JUN

2007

Really neat...I like! Thanks!

Again, a big thank you for keeping us up to date as well as enhancing our network for our use!

Awesome, that will cut down on the number of posts that aren't really relevant to specific topics!

Browsing for posts made by new members is definitely a plus!!!

More upgrades... yeah!!! Thanks for staying on top of things.

Thanks Matt! You guys rock!!

JUN

2007

Thank you Matt and Crew for all the hard work and benefits Active Rain has given to us freely over the past months. This is an awsome place to be. Keep it coming!