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We're happy to announce the upcoming launch of Groupsite Chat, a new instant messaging feature, to our platform. Chat allows real-time communication in Chat rooms right inside your Groupsite.  Within the next few weeks, Groupsite Chat will be a standard feature in our Large Team, Collaboration Community, and Enterprise plans. This means that when a Groupsite subscribes to one of these plans in the future, the site will automatically include Chat capability.

Chat Roll-Out

Starting on October 2nd, we'll begin rolling out the new Chat capability to Groupsites already subscribed to qualifying plans. To ensure a good experience for ..

On February 16, 2012, powerful new functionality, Groupsite Application (App) Customization, will be available in our Collaboration Community and Enterprise plans. This new functionality allows managers of these plans to disable specific areas of their Groupsite that aren't relevant to their group's specific needs. Managers can also add custom pages to the main Communicate, Share and Network areas of these Groupsites.

So what can you customize? For Collaboration Community and Enterprise plan Groupsites, managers will be able to disable existing sub-tabs in the navigation menu - and add new ones:

• Under the Communicate menu, Groupsite managers will have the ability ..

Discussion Posts/Reply by Email -  Simply create or reply to discussions right from email.  This functionality is available to Groupsites who have subscribed to the Small Team Plan and above.  

• Create New Topics - Post new topics via email. Each forum has its own email address, visible from the forum.
  
• Reply to Posts  -  Hit "reply" in your email client to post a reply to a discussion.
• Private Messages - Reply to private messages via email.

Each forum has its own email address. By default, these email addresses are "forum+@mydomain.groupsite.com". For a more memorable email address, Groupsite managers ..