New Groups Features
July 24th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Discussions
In addition to publishing a blog on Politics4All, groups can now enable the new Discussions feature which allows all group members to post items for discussion. While only group members may post topics in a group’s discussions area, any logged-in member of Politics4All can participate in the discussion. An option also exists for group admins to restrict topic posting to admins only.
Discussions settings can be managed on the Account tab in the group’s Settings area:
Group Blogs
With the addition of Discussions to allow for discussions and debates, the group blog is now free to serve as the official communications channel of the group, for posting articles and announcements, or providing more information about the group itself.
Blog Post Import
Another addition is the ability for groups to import blog posts from an external blog into the group’s Politics4All blog. This has been available to individual member accounts since March 2009. This post on Blog Post Import contains instructions for activating and using this feature.
Rich Text in Group Positions
We added a rich text editor to the Group Positions entry form. Groups can now include links to articles, stories, or other online text advocating positions they support.
