Please Join us this Wednesday the 23rd at 10:00am PST for our 2nd weekly webinar. We will be hosting this on GoToMeeting, so please join the meeting by clicking the link below and calling into the meeting, or using your headset. Refreshments will be provided.

1. At the meeting start please click here to join presentation.

2. Dial 1-712-338-7104
Access Code: 177-879-355
Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meetingMeeting ID: 177-879-355

We are excited to announce release of Engage 1.1 to production. In addition to some bug fixes, Engage 1.1 brings some significant new features (shared tasks across Web, Desktop and iPhone applications, Project Teams, full SSL support, tag based hyper-linking and search, UI improvements) to this point release.  Detailed release notes are attached below.

Thank you all for your input.  Our next release Engage 2.0 will bring some very cool new features…stay tuned for additional details.

Features Added

Desktop:

• Hash-tag based search in Messages now available.
• Profiles can now be auto-linked from a feed message
• Improvements to Task Life Cycle
• Improved Usability on the Desktop Client

Web Portal:

• Complete task work flow.
• Complete Project Team support
• From “Settings” -> “Feed”, users can specify push settings for Birthday Announcements, Employee Recognition, Office Poke, etc.
• All feeds email consolidated to include “My Inbox”, “Feeds”, “Messages”, etc.
• Full SSL support added to Web client
• New product videos added to marketing pages.

Fixes:

Desktop:

• Improved behavior when desktop client becomes out-of-sync with the network / server.
• Correct profile pictures are now shown when computer wakes from “sleep” mode.
• Recent Colleagues are no longer duplicated in the list.
• Group chat IM setting is no longer missing.
• Bold, Italic, and Underline now work in chat window.
• Improved how search results are displayed.
• Hitting return to send a message in IM now clears the composition section of the IM window.

Web :

• IE will no longer show a warning for Images over HTTPS.
• Single character on project tab no longer presents a problem.
• Out-of-Network invite now works as expected
• Improvements to Poll
• In “Profile” -> “My Tasks” a prompt is now shown when adding a task from the left-hand-side module.
• Emails other than Weekly Digest will no longer be sent to users that have never logged in.
• Engage Social Bar now loads as expected in all domains.
• Fixed a domain ID issue on the Demo.EngageSmart.com domain.
• Projects dropdown now shows in “Dashboard” -> “Project” as expected.
• Colleagues dropdown now shows in “Dashboard” -> “Wall Message”
• Pressing the <Enter> key while in the “Task Name” field while creating a task no longer creates the task, but rather puts cursor on next line of the “Task Name” field.
• Removed empty sections from daily emails.
• If all sections are empty in the daily email, it no longer gets sent.
• “What are you working on?” no longer grows when user starts typing on Chrome browser.
• Improved Task “View Details” page UI.
• Fixed alignment issues for Tasks in multiple places.
• Improved Task behavior on Chrome and Safari browsers.

Going to the  Enterprise Social Media Forum in 2010?

MangoSpring will be participating in Enterprise Social Media panels and holding workshops. If you are attending and would like to setup a demo or  speak to one of us,  just send an email to info@mangospring.com and we will get back to you right-away.

Come and meet us! March 15th and 16th, 2010 at London’s Olympia.  Just send an email to info@mangospring.com

We are happy to formally announce our partner program today.  You can partner with us  in multiple ways for both of our products - Engage and WebIM.

• OEM Partners: Embed our solutions as part of your own offering and bring the combined solution to your customers.
• Systems Integration Partners: Bundle our solutions with other offerings and deliver them as a combined solution.
• Reseller/Affiliate Partners: Bring MangoSpring’s solutions to your network of customers.
• Engagement/Consulting Partners: Offer your industry expertise to MangoSpring’s customer base.

For more information, please visit the Partner Program page.

MangoSpring Engage,  a real-time business communication and social collaboration suite,  is now open to all businesses!.

To celebrate Engage coming out of private beta, we are  announcing special promotional price of $0.99 cents/user/mo for all claimed networks.

Signup now for our hosted version and enjoy this special pricing for life!

-Anup