Infopop is pleased to present the OpenTopic™ March 2001 Monthly Report for dishretailer.infopop.net.   Read on for all the latest happenings at Infopop and to see your Community Metrics™ for last month's activity on your site.

Community Metrics™

This report was prepared specifically for: dishretailer.infopop.net

Statistics reported for period of: March 1-31, 2001

OpenTopic™ News


We've uploaded an alternate image set to our OpenTopic™ servers. The new buttons have crisper shapes and are more suited to dark backgrounds.   Other profile, edit and email icons have also been tidied up.  To try these new images:

• Go to your OpenTopic™ Control Panel
• Under the Look and Feel heading, click on Style Settings
• Click on your style settings link.  
• Go down to the image links.
• Change any of the Infopop directory names from /images1 to images2/. For example: /infopop/images1/topic.gif becomes /infopop/images2/topic.gif.
• Update your settings.  If you want to revert back to the old images, just rename the images2 directories back to images1

In the next few days we will update the style settings page to make it easier to switch between the image sets.

Have you created your own image sets?  Why not share them with other OpenTopic™ users?  Email us for details.

Our developers have been working feverishly on the Pony Express OpenTopic™ release.  In order to make sure everything was just right the release dates have been pushed back.   Everything is in pretty good shape now and we expect to announce the first beta release on the community.infopop.net forums very shortly.  Stay tuned!

 
Tip of the Month:   Know Your Community Members


The OpenTopic™ application has a powerful member filter that can enhance the return you get from your online community. This tip includes some specific suggestions for making the most of the member filter tool.

To use these tips, click on Member Filter link in your OpenTopic™ control panel.

Example 1
Find members who registered more than one month ago and have posted fewer than 10 times. This would be useful if you’d like to email these members to invite them to participate more often, or offer them an incentive to do so.

How: On the Member Filter page, look for the “Joined” boxes. For the first box set it to the start of the month. Leave the second box blank.  Look for the “Post Count” boxes. In the second box, type 10 (or any other number of maximum posts you wish). Finally, click the “Search” button at the bottom of the page.

Example 2
Find a specific user. This would be useful if you wanted to give permissions to a specific user, or needed to suspend privileges.

How: On the Member Filter page, look for the “User Name” box at the top of the page. Enter the specific User Name, and click the “Search” button. (You can use either the button next to the User Name field, or the one at the bottom of the page.)  You can also look up a member by their email.  Instead of entering a User Name, enter their email (or part of their email address) into the profile field.

Example 3
Find users interested in a certain topic.  Say you want to find everyone who is talking about your latest product (in our case Pony Express).

How: On the Member Filter page, look for the “Message Search” box. Enter the key words (in our case "Pony Express") and click the “Search” button.

On the results page, click the "Select All" link then press the "View Selected Members As A Mailing List Button".  You can now email these users with details of our new product release.

Improvements: Let Us Know How

Infopop relies heavily on customer suggestions and feedback.  We use it to help build better products and provide better information to our customers.  Please email feedback@infopop.com.  

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