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Happy Birthday seReive, Welcome Branded Posts And Beware of 2012!

23/12/2011 by Sereive Leave a Comment

(Deutsche Zusammenfassung ganz am Ende)

Exactly two years after seReive’s first launch, seReive 0.4 went online today, with a new feature that we really love: Branded Posts. This feature allows to to add to your message a brand with link. It was wanted by SOMEXCLOUD, the Swiss Social Media Academy. They asked, we listened. Thank you, Gustavo!

The End Of Beta
On 2.1.12 (2nd January 2012) at 21:12 CET we will launch seReive 1.0 For some users this means the end of the free trial phase. So use the holiday season to do some final and extensive testing.

If you are not one of those lucky 364 first users who were granted a life long free subscription and you are not a paying customer you will be automatically switched to a Free plan after the 2.1.12 at 21:12. «Free» means you can still use seReive but with limitations, e.g. no multi-posting. There will be a short maintenance period after 21:12 on 2.1.12

If you want to keep using seReive with full finctionality check out which plan suites you best. Click here. Make sure you do this in time. If you want to be on the safe side, send us an email with a price plan request to info@seReive.com

A Few Words On Branded Posts
Basically this new feature allows you to send a link and a brand name with your posts. Currently only Facebook and LinkedIn are allowing this. We are hoping that Twitter will follow as soon as they release their new API.
You can choose any brand you want. If you are an agency with several customers, you can post one message as from your agency and the next one as from your customer. There is a scroll-down menu under the send-field to choose the brand. It’s totally easy.
To set up brands, go to the settings-panel where you can “create a brand”.

In the screenshot to the left the brand is called “- click to find out!” and its link leads to this blog.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Deutsche Zusammenfassung

seReive hat eine neue Funktionalität. Neu kann man einer Botschaft einen Markennamen und einen Link hinzufügen, als Absender der Botschaft. Dies geht jedoch nur bei Facebook und LinkedIn. Hoffentlich bald auch bei Twitter. Am 2.1.12 um 21:12 endet die Beta-Phase. Ab dann müssen alle Nutzer zahlen, ausser den ersten 364, die das Glück hatten, eine lebenslange Lizenz zu bekommen. Wer jetzt und bis dahin noch nicht zahlt, wird dann automatisch auf die gratis Abo-Variante geschaltet, die nur eingeschränkte Funktionen hat. Um herauszufinden, welche Abos es gibt, klicke hier. Nutze die Weihnachtszeit für letzte Tests, und entscheide Dich dann für das richtige Abo.

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seReive 0.4 is online with a few improvements and unlimited characters (dt.)

19/12/2011 by Sereive Leave a Comment

(German translation further down)

This morning seReive 0.4 went online. (Unfortunately there is currently still a problem with posting to MySpace, which does not work. Our developers are working on a solution.)

seReive 0.4 offers you the possibility to post a text of unlimited length. For two reasons we decided to repeal the limitation on text-length. First, via seReive you can post to a WordPress blog. Here a limitation has never made any sense, because WordPress posts can be any length. On the other hand, Facebook recently allowed posts with a length of up to 63’206 characters. So on Facebook, too, it makes no longer sense to limit the number of characters to 420. Other networks have different limits. 700 for LinkedIn and still 140 for Twitter. It is now left to the users to watch that a post is not too long.

With respect to that the second improvement comes in handy. The counting of the number of characters has been improved. So far, it could happen that a post appeared to be shorter than it really was. Some characters that appear as a single character when you type them are HTML-encoded. Code for such characters can actually be up to 5 characters long. For example, an ‘ encodes as %27 – turning a single character into three. Since today seReive will count characters in HTML code, so that it should no longer occur, that a tweet gets split into two, because it only seems to be less than 140 characters long, while in reality it is longer.

What we could not solve is the inclusion of images. Pictures that you post require a – variable – number of characters, too. E.g. twitter creates a URL and includes it into the post. Counting this is not possible, because it happens after the message gets delivered to Twitter. To be on the safe side we recommend to consider pictures as having 25 characters and developed a warning that will warn you when a Tweet with picture is longer than 115 characters.

The last improvement is purely graphical in nature. We found that many new users do not recognise seReive’s buttons on computer screens. On mobile devices buttons are clearly identifiable, but on computer screens until now you could only see the text. Now buttons have a magenta-colored frame. In German: Read more of this post

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Notifications – What’s Possible?

18/12/2011 by petermetzinger Leave a Comment

With the launch of seReive 0.3 we introduced a new feature of seReive that comes very handy: notifications. You can now activate notifications for any social media account that you own or any Fabeook page, group or friend that you are connected with. Gold status allows you great flexibility for receiving notifications: immediately, hourly, twice a day, daily – or not at all. And you can set this differently of every single network or wall.

However, not everything is possible. The options we can offer depend on the options that we get from the social networks as part of their API. Here’s what you can get notifications for:

Twitter: retweet / mention

Facebook: like / comment

LinkedIn: like / comment

MySpace: comment

By the way, did you notice that you activate notifications for any wall that you own or are connected to? It means in practice that you can activate them also for competitors’ or opponents’ Facebook pages or groups. After that you will never again miss a discussion taking place there or posts that people like.

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seReive 0.3 wurde freigeschaltet: mit Send&Receive, Gruppenbildung und zeitversetztem Posten

08/12/2011 by Sereive Leave a Comment

Wir freuen uns sehr, dass wir letzte Nacht seReive 0,3 veröffentlichen konnten, die letzte – vielleicht vorletzte – Beta-Version bevor seReive 1,0 an den Start geht. Es gibt ein paar coole neue Features, die nur seReive bietet.

Gruppenbildung

Dies ist unser Favorit dieser neuen Version. Wir freuen uns sehr, dieses neue Feature anzukündigen, das – soweit wir wissen – keine andere Social Media Software bietet und das uns einen riesigen Schritt weiterbringt in Richtung unserer Vision von der Schaffung des weltweit effizientesten und flexibelsten Social Media Cockpits, das Social Media Marketing so einfach wie möglich macht: die Bildung von Pinwand-Gruppen («Gruppenbildung / Grouping»). In den Einstellungen können Sie nun Gruppen von Netzwerken / Pinnwänden Ihrer Wahl erstellen.

Wenn Sie z.B. verschiedene Kunden oder Social Media Teams haben, können Sie hiermit eine beliebige Auswahl von sozialen Netzwerken, Facebook-Gruppen,-Seiten und Freunden als eine bestimmten Gruppe verwalten. Social Media Teams können eine Gruppe jener Pinnwände erstellen, die sie am häufigsten verwenden.

Nachdem Sie eine Gruppe von Pinnwänden erstellt haben, können Sie entweder auf alle Pinnwände innerhalb der Gruppe posten, oder Sie können eine Auswahl der Pinnwände anklicken und nur dorthin posten. Die Vorteile dieser neuen Funktion sind, dass alle Pinnwände, die zusammengehören, auch zusammen angezeigt werden. Dies hilft zu vermeiden, dass eine Nachricht, die zu Kampagne A gehört, versehentlich an eine Pinnwand von Kampagne B gepostet wird, und es macht die Verwaltung von verschiedenen Kampagnen oder Kunden viel einfacher.

Im Bild sieht man die Pinnwände, die zu einer Gruppe namens “Test” gehören und darunter die übliche Liste von Facebook-Konten und anderen Pinnwänden.

Zur Nutzung dieser coolen, neue Funktion gehen Sie zu den Einstellungen und klicken dort auf “Create a group / Gruppen bilden”. Der Rest ist einfach.

Senden und Empfangen

seReive 0,3 bietet endlich das, wofür seReive steht: Senden und Empfangen («Send&Receive»). Sie können jetzt nicht nur Nachrichten an Ihre Netzwerke, Seiten, Gruppen und Freunde senden, sondern bekommen auch Benachrichtigungen, wenn es Reaktionen gibt. So dass Sie diese nicht verpassen. Benachrichtigungen gibt es aber auch für Reaktionen auf Beiträge, die von anderen geschrieben wurden, und zwar bei denen Sie nicht einmal ein Administrator sind. Es genügt, wenn Sie diese Pinnwand favorisiert («like») und seReive hinzugefügt haben.

Dieses coole Feature kann Ihnen deshalb dabei helfen, zu überwachen, was auf bestimmten Seiten passiert.

Alles, was Sie tun müssen, ist bei den Einstellungen die Pinnwand anklicken und seReive mitteilen, wie oft Sie Benachrichtigungen wünschen.

Die schlechte Nachricht : nach dem Start von seReive 1.0 wird dieses Feature nur Bronze-, Silber- und Gold-Abonennten zur Verfügung stehen (http://sereive.com/#planPanel) – und natürlich denjenigen, die nach der ersten Lancierung von seReive im Dezember 2009 eine lebenslange Lizenz erhalten haben.Werfen Sie einen Blick auf die Optionen: http://sereive.com/#planPanel

Achtung: diese Funktion ist nicht in allen Netzen verfügbar, weil nicht alle Netzwerkbetreiber Drittanbietern einen entsprechenden Zugang ermöglichen.

Zeitversetztes Posten (Scheduling)

seReive’s letzte neue Funktion ist nicht weniger wichtig, aber weil viele andere Tools sie schon haben, weniger spektakulär: zeitversetztes Posten. Sie können neu eine Zeit und ein Datum auswählen, an dem Ihre Nachricht veröffentlicht wird. Vergessen Sie aber Sie nicht, Ihre Zeitzone in der Konto-Einstellung anzupassen.

seReive ist noch im Beta-Stadium, d.h. noch in der Testphase, und wir können – trotz intensivem Testen – nicht garantieren, dass alles so funktioniert wie wir es hoffen. Bitte teilen Sie uns mit, wenn etwas nicht funktioniert, seltsam erscheint, oder wenn Sie eine Idee haben, wie man es noch einfacher gestalten könnte: info[at]seReive.com

Vielen Dank!

Mit seReivelichen Grüssen!

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seReive 0.3 Is Live With Cool New Features: Send&Receive, Grouping And Scheduling

08/12/2011 by Sereive Leave a Comment

We are happy to announce that last night we went live with seReive 0.3 , the last – maybe second last – beta version before we shall launch seReive 1.0 There’s a couple of cool new features that only seReive is offering to you.

Grouping

This is our favourite of this release. We are very happy to announce this new feature that no other tool that we know is offering and that takes us a huge step further towards our vision of creating the most efficient and most flexible social media cockpit in the world that makes social media marketing as easy as possible: set up groups («Grouping»). In the settings you can now create groups of networks/walls of your own choice.

E.g. if you have different customers or teams you can manage any selection of social network accounts, Facebook groups, pages and friends as one specific group. Social media teams can have a group of those walls that they use frequently.

In the Send Panel you can either post to all walls within a group or you can choose a selection of the walls of a specific group. The advantages of this feature is that all walls belonging together are displayed together. This will help you to avoid posting a message that belongs to campaign A to a wall that belongs to campaign B. And it makes the management of different campaigns or customers so much easier.

In the picture you can see the walls belonging to a group called “Test” and beneath it the usual list of Facebook accounts and other walls.

To use this cool new feature go to the Settings Panel and click the “Create a group” button. The rest is easy.

Send & Receive

seReive 0.3 finally offers what seReive stands for: send & receive. You can now not only post messages to your networks, pages, groups and friends, you can also receive notifications so that you don’t miss any reactions on your posts. You receive notifications even for reactions on posts that were made by others and on walls that you are not even an administrator of. It is sufficient if you liked that wall and set it up in seReive.

This cool feature can help you to monitor what’s happening on pages that you liked or administrate.

All you need to do is go to the Settings Panel, click on the wall you want notifications for and tell seReive how often you want those notifications. The bad news is: after launching seReive 1.0 this feature will be available only to Bronze, Silver and Gold users (http://sereive.com/#planPanel) – and of course to those who received a lifelong license after our very first launch of seReive in December 2009. Take a look at the options: http://sereive.com/#planPanel

Be aware that this feature is not available on all networks as it depends on what the network provider allows third parties to have access to.

Scheduling
seReive’s last new feature is not less important, but as many other tools have it already, it is less spectacular: scheduled posting. You can now define a time and date when your message shall be published. Don’t miss to adjust your timezone in the Account Panel.

seReive is still in beta, which means we are still testing and we cannot guarantee that everything works as we hope it should. Please let us know if you come across anything that doesn’t function, that looks weird or anything that you think should me made easier: info[at|seReive.com

Thanks!

Yours seReively

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Congratulations To Cristina d’Ignazio

07/11/2011 by Sereive Leave a Comment

You may have noticed seReive running at the bottom of your screen while she is busy posting something for you.

It was therefore very logical for us to sponsor a marathon runner. Cristina d’Ignazio has made the Uetliberglauf 2011 and the Lausanne Halfmarathon 2011 wearing seReive on her shirt. At the Uetliberglauf 2011 she was only third and took seReive up to the podium. We would like to congratulate her at this place for this outstanding performance. (With seReive on her shirt, however, of course we didn’t expect anything less…)

Hooray to Cristina!

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Lehren aus der SuisseEMEX

27/08/2011 by petermetzinger 2 Comments

(This post is in German because it is relevant only to our Swiss audience.)

Drei Tage waren wir mit einem kleinen Stand an der SuisseEMEX. Das Interesse war so gross, dass wir kaum mehr Besucher hätten haben können. Am meisten freuten wir uns über den Besuch von Marcus Hess von Schoggimail, der vorbeikam, weil ihm gesagt wurde, seReive sei das einzig wirklich spannende Produkt an der Messe. Kurz später kam er wieder, mit einer Tafel Schoggi, deren Verpackung ein Foto vom Stand war. Diese Schoggi wird wohl kaum gegessen… Was haben wir gelernt?

Zum einen, dass es einen echten Bedarf nach einer Lösung wie seReive gibt, gerade weil unser Social Media Manager so flexibel ist und unabhängig von Betriebssystem und Plattform (Computer, Tablet, Smartphone). Zweitens dass ein grosser Bedarf besteht nach sofortiger Email-Benachrichtigung in dem Moment, wo es Reaktionen auf einen Post gibt. Drittens hat uns besonders gefreut, dass selbst Anwender von Konkurrenzprodukten wie Hootsuite von seReive überzeugt werden konnten, auch wiederum, weil seReive so viel flexibler, überschaubarer, aufs Wesentliche reduziert und anwendungsfreundlicher ist, und auf jedem Gerät genau gleich funktioniert.

Die Zustimmung hat uns in unserem Kurs bestätigt. Zur Zeit arbeiten wir an der “Receive”-Funktion, Email-Benachrichtigungen über Reaktionen auf Posts. Wir testen das schon länger im Hintergrund, aber es gibt noch verschiedene Mängel, die in den kommenden Wochen behoben werden können. Danach ist seReive wirklich das, als was wir es jetzt schon bezeichnen: ein richtiges Social Media Cockpit.

seReive heisst ja auch: send & Receive

bei den beiden auf dem Foto handelt es sich um Early Adapter und Texter Roger Hausmann, der seReive für seine Schreibwerkstatt schon lange einsetzt, und den Autor, dieses Beitrags, Peter Metzinger, einen der beiden Väter von seReive.

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What’s New In seReive 0.1?

25/08/2011 by Sereive Leave a Comment

Sorry for writing so late. We made the upgrade literally minutes before the Swiss marketing fair SuisseEMEX started. The plan was to write this article there, but we had so many visitors that there was no chance. So, finally, here’s the list of changes:

seReive has a new costume. The guideline for the new design was purism and the goal to make it easier for user to be able to see what they need to see
New unser interface. The guideline here was to allow more intuitive handling. For instance you can now add pages, groups and friends to a Facebook account in the settings panel; you don’t need an extra click on the Facebook account anymore. And we moved the seReive account details to an extra panel.
The major change is picture upload. You can now add pictures to your Facebook and Twitter posts.

seReive 0.2 is already underway. The next feature you can expect is the “receive-feature”, which means email-notification when someone reacts upon your posts. We’ve been testing this for a while already. If you want to join the testing group, drop us an email and we’ll activate it for you.

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seReive At SuisseEMEX

17/08/2011 by Sereive Leave a Comment

On a very short notice we decided to have our own booth at the Swiss marketing fair SuisseEMEX.

At SuisseEMEX we will for the first time present seReive 1.0, a new version with improved user interface and a new design that helps users to focus on what they really need to look at.

Come an visit us at Hall No. 4 within the IFJ Startup Park.

Read our press release (in German only) | Medienmitteilung

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Facebook changed the authorisation process

26/06/2011 by Sereive Leave a Comment

Facebook changed the authorisation process with consequences for adding new FB accounts to seReive. Until further notice, you will first have to log out of FB before you can add a new Facebook (master) account

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