Check out Socialcast’s newest feature additions, fixes, and updates for the month of October*:
1. Exposed Additional Settings in Group and Town Hall Creation Dialog
Over the last few months, we received many requests for some additional features when creating new Socialcast Groups or Town Halls. Many of these features already existed but were hidden behind a ‘show more’ link in each respective new creation dialog and hard for users to find. For example, the option to “Allow members to see questions before they have been answered by a speaker” for Town Halls and the option to “Exclude from Company Stream” for Groups, will be more apparent so you can further customize your members’ experience using these features.
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Improvements to Town Halls
2. New Town Hall Dashboard
As we continue to enhance our Town Hall functionality we wanted to provide a quick and easy way to keep track of all your upcoming, scheduled Town Halls. That is why we have introduced a new Town Halls Dashboard page, which can be accessed by clicking on the Town Halls icon from the left navigation menu.
From that Dashboard page, users will quickly be able to filter their Town Halls using the following options:
- All – A list of all Town Halls you will be attending, or have attended. This includes upcoming, active, and archived Town Halls.
- Attending – A list of Town Halls you will be attending as a member, Speaker, or Moderator. This includes upcoming and active Town Halls.
- Archived – A list of Town Halls you have attended. This only includes archived Town Halls.
- Mine – A list of Town Halls you have created. This includes upcoming, active, and archived Town Halls. (This option will only appear if you are a community admin or Town Hall admin.)
We have also made a set of secondary sorting options available for the following: Start Time, Name, Most Questions, Fewest Questions, Most Members, and Fewest Members
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3. Added Polling Feature to Town Halls
Many Town Hall Speakers and Moderators have asked to interact with participants by posting polls in the Town Hall stream. Only Speakers or Moderators can add poll options to the discussion. Polls will immediately be visible to all participants once they are posted.
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4. Added Files Tab to Town Halls
After much demand, we are happy to announce that we added a Files tab to Town Halls, so users can easily access the collection of files being added under Town Hall posts. The Files tab is located to the right of the Bookmark tab and includes the ability to sort by Name, File Type, and Date Added. Clicking on the actual file will allow you to Download or View Post. The Files tab is available to all members, Moderators, and Speakers of a Town Hall. If the Town Hall is public then the Files tab is available to all members of the community.
If the “Allow members to see questions before they have been answered by a speaker” setting is disabled, community members or Town Hall participants will only be able to see the file posted once the question has been answered by a Speaker of the Town Hall.
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5. Generate Reach Extension from Town Halls
We recently allowed admins to let members of their community create Reach extensions for things like Group or Home Streams. We have now extended this functionality to Reach Town Hall extensions as well. To edit these settings, admins can navigate to Admin Settings > Reach > Settings and select the Town Hall Stream option. This feature will be enabled by default. Checking this option will mean that creators of Town Halls will be able to view and select “Embed Town Hall Stream” directly from the Town Hall Settings menu.
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Selecting this option will generate the Reach extension Embed Code, along with instructions for embedding the extension into an HTML page. All Town Hall Reach embeds will require authentication and use the default Reach styling.
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*Please note that On-Premise clients will receive these features in a future release.