Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Hello all,
SkaDate Team is glad to present a new SkaDate dating software build – 7.5.1550.
It comes with new features, usability enhancements and minor bug fixes. This is what you will find in SkaDate 7.5.1550:
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Improved User Points system
- New Latest Activity items
- Integration of Honesty Online background check service
- Possibility to disable the ‘Latest Activity’ feature in the Admin Panel
- Possibilitiy to add emoticons to the status line on the Memberhome page
- Possibility for Site Administrator to set the number of profiles displayed in the ‘Friends List’
Learn more about the new SkaDate dating script build, check the Live Demo and ask your questions from our pre-sales operators 24/7 at www.SkaDate.com.
Best regards,
SkaDate Team
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Posted in Miscellaneous, News, Products, SkaDate | Tags: dating script · dating software · new build · release · SkaDate · skadate features
Monday, January 11th, 2010
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Today we are happy to inform all SkaDate community members that SkaDate dating and community software has taken its place among iDate 2010 Awards Finalists in the ‘Best Dating Software Provider’ nomination.
We wouldn’t be able to make it without your help and support. And we would like to thank each and every one of your for contributing into our success!
The nomination winners will be announced at the iDate Awards ceremony on January 28, 2010 in Miami Beach during the Internet Dating Conference, where SkaDate Dating Software Company will be represented by the CEO Emil Sarnogoev. |
Keep your fingers crossed for us, and thank you for being a great support!
Best regards,
SkaDate Team
Posted in Miscellaneous, News, Products, SkaDate | Tags: best dating software · community software · dating software · iDate 2010 · idate awards · SkaDate
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Greetings to all the blog readers and Skalfa news followers!
We have something new for you today. From now on you will be able to read about SkaDate Dating Software news and updates at the new SkaDate blog.
We will continue informing you about all important events, provide useful information on site promotion and maintenance, and keep you updated on SkaDate dating and community software news.
Feel free to check out the new blog, read about the latest SkaDate software release, post comments and share your opinion, which has always been important to us.
Kind regards,
SkaDate Team
Posted in Miscellaneous, News, Products, SkaDate | Tags: community software · dating software · dating software blog · SkaDate · SkaDate blog
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
Greetings everybody!
SkaDate Team is glad to express the warmest congratulations on Christmas and New Year Holidays! We wish you best luck in all your endeavours, and may your life be filled with love and happiness!
We would also like to inform you that we will be out of office for New Year Holidays from December 30, 2009 to January 4, 2010.
So, see you in the New Year which will hopefully bring even more positive events and achievements!
Best Regards and Happy New Year,
SkaDate Team
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Those of you having a community website inevitably have to deal with processing users information such as name, e-mail, telephone number, sometimes residential address and even billing details. It’s not that everone is happy to share it with a site owner, but almost any registration form requires a user’s private details. In order to gain trust of your existing and potential members from the very start you have to explain (clearly and honestly) what kind of personal information you keep track of, why you need it and how you use it. That’s what a Privacy Policy is needed for: to reassure users that their private data is safe in your hands. Nothing sophisticated of course, but requiring serious attention.
If we speak about a ‘king-size’ business attracting special attention of law-keepers – it is better to hire a professional lawyer for writing a Privacy Policy, as an incorrect privacy statement may seriously affect your business. Otherwise, you can perfectly handle writing a Privacy Policy by yourself. As an option, you can take one of the numerous Privacy Policy samples on the Internet, and adjust it for your website. Just take into account the tips given below.
1) Tell what personal information you collect from your website users, and why.
Your website members have a legal right to know what types of their private data you will have access to. You have to list everything: name, e-mail address, telephone, IP address etc. Then you should explain what you need that data for, and how it is going to be shared within and probably outside your company. Your aim is to assure users that their personal information will not be used in any way abusing your privacy. Give special attention to this part to avoid any possible legal issues.
2) Give an explanation accompanied with certain examples on why members’ information is safe in your hands.
By filling up your Privacy Policy with broad security statements wrapped in technical language you make it look ’sophisticated’, which is not a synonim to ‘good’. Remember that most of your site visitors are not experienced webmasters, and reading something like ‘Security Socket Layer’ and ‘encryption’ they will most likely have a feeling that you are hiding something behind the technicalisms. So, better build your explanation on plain English clearly indicating what measures you take to protect their private correspondence and billing details, and what makes your servers secure. You should also give a try to explaining special terms, but don’t go too deep though. Being brief and clear is a key point.
3) Give the site members access to viewing and editing their private details.
Having an option to access and change the personal information at any moment site users feel more confident about sharing their personal details with you. So you should tell where and how they can do this, and how editing profile info might influence their membership status and profile page availability.
4) Show your members a ‘way out’.
In other words, specify how they will be able to terminate their site membership in case of being dissatisfied with your services,
or due to any other reason. It is always sad to lose customers, no doubts. But if you give users an option to leave whenever they want, and with no headache – they will definitely feel more relaxed about subscribing for your service. From your part it is required to indicate where and how they can delete a profile or unsubscribe from mass-mailing, and what will happen to their private data after they are no longer on your team. Remember that most site visitors would read your Privacy Policy just for finding that out.
5) Keep your site member aware of possible Privacy Policy updates.
Some companies practice periodical Privacy Policy revising that results in minor or global changes. If you have plans for such occasional or regular updates – let your members know by including a notification that would sound like: ‘Our Privacy Policy is revised on a regular basis, so please check for updates’.
My final advice is – make your Privacy Policy honest and easy to understand. This will help you gain trust of your site users, and will give them a good feeling about your business.
I hope this information will be helpful for SkaDate community and dating script customers, and for those only thinking to start their own online dating business.
Best wishes,
Irene
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Posted in Miscellaneous | Tags: dating script · how to write a privacy policy · online dating · privacy policy · privacy statement · SkaDate · writing a privacy policy
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Greetings everybody!
Finally, we have crossed the finish line of the WIN SkaDate Contest.
First of all, we would like to thank you all for taking part in the competition. Your comments and positive feedback have been a great encourage for us to provide even better service, and keep improving SkaDate software to meet all your needs.
Now it’s time to announce the contest results, and the fact that this event has coincided with Skalfa eCommerce Birthday (we are 5 today!) makes the moment even more festive.
Here come the winners.
3d place and SkaDate Mobile Edition goes to Lawrence and his comment:
Skadate helped me very quickly build a great website and it saved me the huge effort of building a site on my own from scratch. Now my site has over 13,000 members in just over one year – http://BrainiacDating.com.
When I started I had no idea how to build a dating site, but the skadate support was very helpful to get my site up and running.
Sure there are several other dating site software packages out there, but skadate’s php code and database are efficiently designed, so that with only some basic knowledge of php – you can easily modify it yourself, or if necessary it relatively inexpensive to outsource small enhancements.
2nd place is taken by John, who gets SkaDate Software License:
Yuch! vs Yum! Let me explain….
After wasting time installing & running on Ning (yuch!) and Boonex (yuch!) as well as testing the online demos of many other software vendors and service providers, I settled on JomSocial for my Joomla-powered site.
But there’s a problem now: it has limited features, which now means I am integrating several other extensions with their own set of hacks & additions that I’ll probably have to repeat when JomSocial release a newer version. (yuch!)
So I would *only* migrate to SkaDate (yum!) because it *flexibly* (creative!) and *logically* (time-saving!) integrates video, photos, templates, search, admin panel and user news/updates (to name just a few).
So after all, it seems like site publishers invest well in SkaDate – I really look forward to using it to bring health-minded people together!
And the 1st place winner is Sibel, who gets SkaDate Software License along with SkaDate Mobile Edition:
Hi,
Me and my partner we discovered Skadate 1 year ago and we are very happy with it…since then!!! We wanted to find the right software, the right server, the best provider and wanted to create a dating site that works 24/7!!! There are many dating site providers out there… After researching for 3 month and trying out many site-demos, we felt like Skadate covered what we were looking for!!!
This is our dating-site and we wanted to have control!
We wanted the site “to look” professional and inviting to our customer…and at the same time we wanted to have easy access to the control panel. We have a bi-lingual customer and it was very easy to translate text to the second language. And we like the easy payment option with PayPal or any creditcard company, when customers wanna sign up as Gold Members…
Our site is fast, secure and we have a good overview on everything. Anyone at any age can use the site. Buttons & pages are easy to access and clear to understand. If my customers are happy, I am happy!!!
With the help and support from Skadate we were able to change many things on our site. We worked very close with their tech-support and designers to re-design the look, the colors, the text and the layout at very affordable price rates. We also made changes to the admin panel. Sometimes I spend 10hours a day in the admin panel! It’s easy to work with and I get the job done.
The Skadate team is very nice and always there when you need them. They are a great help, explain or fix things very fast.
I am overall a very happy customer and I would highly recommend Skadate for all your datingsite-needs…
Our Congratulations to the contest winners!
Although winners are only three, we appreciate the contribution of all participants. This is why each of you will get a personal coupon code with a discount for purchasing SkaDate community and dating script.
Your feedback is a great motivation for us to keep working on the software quality. Thank you guys for building the great community of SkaDate users!
Best regards,
SkaDate Team
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Posted in Miscellaneous, Products, SkaDate | Tags: community software · dating script · mobile edition · SkaDate · skadate contest · win SkaDate
Friday, November 27th, 2009
Thank you for taking a few minutes to support SkaDate in the iDate 2010 – Internet Dating Industry Awards Nomination.
Below are the steps you’ll need to take to cast your vote for us:
1. Follow the link http://www.internetdatingconference.com/vote-miami-2010.php
2. Scroll down a little bit to the ‘Best Dating Software Provider‘ nomination, and click on a radio button against SkaDate.com
3. Now scroll to the bottom of the page, and fill-in the blank fields with your name, company name and e-mail. To confirm you are not a robot type the letters and numbers you see on the captcha (secure image), and don’t forget to tick off the “Terms and Conditions” checkbox
4. Click the ‘Submit’ button
That’s it!
Your vote has moved SkaDate one step toward winning the nomination. We appreciate your contribution!
Best regards,
SkaDate Team
Posted in Miscellaneous, Products, SkaDate | Tags: best dating software · dating industry awards · iDate 2010 · idate awards · SkaDate
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Looks like there is a chance to start your own Facebook while sitting on a favorite chair 
SkaDate Dating and Community Software Company is glad to invite those of you who believe our product is a key to success to take part in a competition – WIN SkaDate.
We give everyone a chance to get a SkaDate license along with Mobile Edition for free. All you need to do is tell us why you think SkaDate is the perfect solution for your online community business. Tell us what features, characteristics and special qualities make SkaDate the best dating script and community software for you.
If SkaDate software has already helped you build a community site of your dream – you are also welcome to share your success story, as you have an opportunity to win another license for implementing one more great web site idea.
Post your comments about SkaDate here and you may win SkaDate license with the Mobile Edition.
There are going to be three prize positions in the contest:
1st place winner will get a free SkaDate Community Software package and SkaDate Mobile Edition ($500 value)
2nd place winner will get a free SkaDate Software package ($350 value)
3d place winner’s prize is SkaDate Mobile Edition ($150 value)
This is how we are going to process your feedback and choose the winners:
The contest will last from November 4, 2009 to December 1, 2009. This is when you are welcome to post your comments about SkaDate community and dating script, and vote for the ones you find worth winning. We will take into account all your support votes and choose the comments we like the most to announce the contest results on December 1, 2009.
Get a chance to build your own community site for free – WIN (Why I Need) SkaDate!
Good Luck!
SkaDate Team
Update: SkaDate Team would like to thank you for your activity in posting all that positive feedback. We have decided to make a small surprise for all of you taking part in this contest even if you do not win a prize position. What kind of surprise it’ going to be will be revealed on December 1, 2009 – the day we announce the contest results. Carry on!
Posted in News, SkaDate | Tags: best community software · best dating script · community software · dating script · dating software · free SkaDate license · SkaDate · win SkaDate
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
The good news to share today is that the next great event in Online Dating Industry is coming up. The iDate 2010 Awards will take place on January 28, 2010 in Miami during the Internet Dating Conference, where the CEO of Skalfa eCommerce Emil Sarnogoev will participate to answer your questions and tell more about SkaDate Dating and Community Software. This is when the best dating sites and dating software companies will be chosen from candidates in 11 industry-related categories.
Most important is that your votes of support can help a company meriting nomination be included in the list of finalists, and get the position it deserves.
If you find SkaDate Dating Software Company worthy of election in the ‘Best Dating Software Provider’ category – nominate it now at http://www.InternetDatingConference.com/nominations-miami-2010.php and leave your votes for it from November 22, 2009 to January 7, 2010.
We appreciate your support and contribution in helping SkaDate Company get rewarded according to the merits in providing professional and reliable community software and dating script.
Best regards,
SkaDate Team
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Posted in News, Products, SkaDate | Tags: best dating software · community software · dating script · dating software · idate awards · internet dating conference · SkaDate
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
SkaDate released a new update of its professional dating and community software – 7.1365.
This update brings a number of improvements which make SkaDate dating and community software more user-friendly, flexible and easy-to-manage.
The new update of SkaDate community software is available at the customer area where you may download it and update your web site. If you prefer not to update your Skadate community software version at this time you may do it at a later date.
If you don’t have SkaDate dating and community software yet then Get it Now!
Useful links:
SkaDate Live Demo
SkaDate Features
SkaDate Mobile Edition
If you have any questions please feel free to let us know.
Regards, Tim S.
Posted in News, SkaDate | Tags: community software · dating software · SkaDate · skadate features · skadate live demo · SkaDate Mobile Edition
