Splore Help

Text and Video Chat now available!

In case you were wondering what that little orange box is down at the bottom right of your screen, we've just implemented some new chat functionality! To initiate a chat session with one or more other Splore users, just mouse over a user's screen name, and click on the "Chat" button. You can even initiate a chat session with all participants of a splore by clicking on the participants icon at the top of your splore, and again clicking the "Chat" button. Once your chat is started, each user has the option to enable video chat, assuming you have an active webcam on your computer. Give it a spin and let us know what you think! We have much more planned for this feature and we look forward to your feedback.

Thanks again for helping to make Splore a better product each and every week.  Keep the feedback coming, and good Sploring!

The Splore Team

Splore Maintenance Outage: July 3, 2012

We will be conducting regular site maintenance from 3am until 11am ET on Tuesday, July 3. Please expect intermittent site availability during that time, as we will work to restore full access as soon as possible.

Thanks for your patience, and good Sploring!

The Splore Team

New Splore iPhone App now available!

That's right, you can now access Splore through a native app right on your iPhone (or you iPad, iPod, etc.)! Just wander over to the App Store and download the free Splore App directly onto your device, and then login just like you would on the web. You can access your Splores, your Splore Sites, and even post photos directly from your phone. Give it a spin and let us know what you think.

Thanks again for helping to make Splore a better product each and every week.  Keep the feedback coming, and good Sploring!

The Splore Team

Self-service Splore Sites now available!

For all you groups and businesses out there who've been patiently waiting for an integrated, self-service ability to purchase a subscription to your own customized Splore Site, the wait is over! Just click the Splore Sites link off the Splore home page, or the equivalent link in the footer of the site, and learn more about what a custom site is and how you can setup your own with just a few clicks. Businesses or advertisers interested in promotional opportunities on our public site can still contact us directly at Sales.

Thanks again for helping to make Splore a better product each and every week.  Keep the feedback coming, and good Sploring!

The Splore Team

Many new features now available!

In case you hadn't noticed, we've introduced several new features recently, too many in fact to cover each in detail here. But here are a few teasers...

More Calendar Improvements. We've extended the use of calendars such that now all splore participants can create and edit their own events. What's more, you can also enable event alerts and reminders - new options in your Account Settings. Find out automatically every time a new event is added or changed, and be reminded a day in advance so you don't forget.

More Email Support. Similar to your ability to reply directly to an email notification of a new contribution in Splore - and have your reply automatically posted as a Comment - we've also added the ability for you to reply to email notifications of private messages. So now you can conduct an entire private message thread via email if you'd rather not go back to the Splore site and manage replies there. Even more, each splore participant now has a private email address that you can use to automatically post contributions directly via email (displayed under the splore toolbar).

New Multi File and Image Upload. We now support multiple images per contribution, and both image and file upload sports a new multi-select capability, and even drag-and-drop support. Try it out! Grab a file(s) from a folder and drag them onto the file or image upload control in Splore. Cool, right?

Video Upload Support. Thought we were done? Not even close. You can now upload your own videos directly into Splore - that in addition to the still supported ability to simply embed/link existing YouTube (and other) videos.

Google Forms Support. For you forms aficionados, you can now embed a Google Form directly into a splore contribution. This is one of those "hidden" gems - we'll be adding some inline instructions and FAQs soon, but meanwhile just remember that you'll want to use the iFrame embed code that Google Forms provides. Cut and past that code directly into your text contribution, and voila, instant forms support!

Category Bar on Dashboard. Many of you told us you really liked the category bar on the home page, so we decided to add that to your dashboard as well. Now you can navigate splores via category and never have to go back to the home page to do it!

Splore Highlighted Content. Splore creators, you'll be happy to know that you can now "pin" content from throughout all your splore contributions and have it highlighted at the top of your splore page. What's more, you can not only pin individual contributions, but comments, images, and file attachments as well! Make sure your splore participants can quickly find the most important content by keeping it front and center.

Splore Sites Integration. Many of you may not be aware, but we've been actively implementing support for custom private and public splore sites. For those of you who are using a site (or three), you'll now see additional capability to access and interact with those sites. That includes one-click site lists on the dashboard and next to your user image on each page, the ability to filter your "My Splores" page based on one or all sites, and more is on the way. For those interested in learning more about Splore Sites, let us know!

Many New Design Enhancements. We've been regularly working to apply improved styling to many of the Splore pages. You'll see improved UI on each splore details page - including a new "toolbar" with quick access to things like participant lists, the file cabinet, the Calendar, and yes, a new RSS feed capability (for those of you who just love to stay updated using your favorite RSS reader). The new splore contribution form has also been improved, and the whole page now sports an updated design that we're applying to other pages as well (splash page, dashboard, etc.).

Thanks again for helping to make Splore a better product each and every week. Keep the feedback coming, and good Sploring!

The Splore Team