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We have released what we feel is one of the most important social features we have launched to date. Welcome to SharedNews, where you can acquire instant information on what your friends are doing within the community. This will provide valuable insight into which of your friends are writing and updating their reviews. You will receive real-time notices on votes and comments on your own reviews. As well, you’ll have a plethora of new friend notices to see who they are becoming friends with, how their ShareScore grows or decreases and when they update their profile. Other system notices include Private Messages or when a review is sent back for some edits. When you go to check it out in the Community tab, make sure you update your status to let all your friends know what you think!

ShareScore Update

In the first three weeks since launch, ShareScore has had an amazing impact on the quality of activity within the community. Almost everyone is stepping up to the plate and taking community responsibility in voting for only the best reviews, helping to police bad content through the reporting tool, and helping new users get started as our community grows. Congratulations to our first members who have hit a 100% ShareScore, earning the right to place more votes than anyone else in the community. Everyone keep up the great work!

Email Notifications

We’ve added a new email notification for votes received on a review, and provided new daily digest options for both vote and comment notifications. Now you can be sure that not only will your votes be displayed on the author’s SharedNews feed, but they will also receive an email notification making them aware of that all important vote you cast for their review! Remember, posting “Voted” in the comments of a review not only can negatively affect your ShareScore, but it lowers the quality of the content and makes it harder for us to monetize all of your reviews.

Community Progress

We are working everyday to negotiate with new advertising partners, and explore new and innovative ways to monetize the valuable product experiences all of you have been sharing. Very soon, we hope to grow revenue to the point where we will be able to go above and beyond our minimum $10,000 payouts to the community each monthly cycle. The best way all of you can help us achieve our community goals is to continue to invite as many new members as you can through the invitation tools in the Friends tab of the Community page, and utilize the sharing tools (Sharing tab beside Comments at the bottom of a review) in order to publicize all of the great content you come across within the community.

Development of additional social features such as Groups and Applications for other social networks continues, so please keep your feedback coming in on how we can help you grow your community and earnings in new and better ways.