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The above video is the culmination of the best part of 6 months worth of work. These 90 seconds of abstract animation are tasked with metaphorically illustrating Affino’s key proposition, how we work, and how our customers benefit. The vocabulary used also ties it into the Affino Onboard Campaign to a degree, although the individual treatments are quite distinct. The video is best viewed on the dedicated Affino Discovery Video page.

The key purpose of this blog post is to simply ...

This was far from a vintage year for Glastonbury - none of the headline sets were really up to previous memorable performances. There was little musical or stage show innovation here, and nothing too much to write home about. Florence and the Machine on the first night was just like every other performance we have seen of theirs, Kanye was too minimalist, a little disjointed and woefully out of tune on the Bohemian Rhapsody Kanye-Oke, and The Who looked somewhat tired.

Headline sets ...

Affino 7.1 is now out, and it’s a major release in every way. Whilst there are many aspects to this Affino release, the two key threads are improved scaling and greater engagement. Affino 7.1 has been significantly re-architected to scale with new search and analytics engines. With the release of Affino 7.1 we will also be migrating sites to our new super-scaling cloud.

We’ve rolled out big updates to many core Affino services including Messaging, Search, Analysis, Customer...

Affino 7 has a mobile optimised Control Centre. We’ve tuned the interfaces to be fast and usable on the mobile. No need to Zoom or scroll around, just what you need where you expect it.

Here are some of the key management interfaces you will be using on your mobile:

Mobile Control Centre

Mobile Social Centre

Mobile Control Navigation

Mobile Content Search

Mobile Article Listing

Our priority for Affino 7 has been to make the most productive platform available for running your business online. The integrated nature of Affino means you only have to manage your community, content, products, design, , promotions and analytics in one place. This is by far the most effective approach for managing an online business. What we have done with Affino 7 is to improve in every way how how you manage your online business.

Affino 7 has a New Control Centre, with the pages ...

Affino 6.0.16 is not about a small number of key updates, instead it’s about the overall improvement in Affino’s quality with this release as hundreds more rough edges are smoothed out, including a lot of complex long-standing issues. It’s an exciting release as it raises Affino’s quality level yet again to the highest level yet.

There are however three headline new features in this Affino release: The Cookie Policy / EU Privacy Directive Bar is a key update and...

Initially this was going to be a very quick follow-on release to Affino 6.0.7 to resolve any issues that come from the major new Affino release. It has grown a fair bit and includes key new abilities including a great new Lead Generation platform, new Chart content, updated Media Library, greatly improved Comments and Ratings and another set of major improvements in the Control Centre.

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Affino Blogs and Forum will have great Oembed support in the next release. This means that all you have to do is paste the URLs to your favourite videos, images, tracks and presentations for them to appear in your blog posts and forum threads.

Here’s some examples:

SoundCloud

Vimeo

Click through for many more examples of the rich media experience.

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This is a significant stability release for users who are running Affino 6.0.4. It is recommended that you update to this version at the earliest opportunity. There are fixes across the board and a couple of great new features that didn’t quite make it into the last release.

Owing to the timing of this release (i.e. just before the Christmas Break), we have excluded a number of the latest project related developments from it to ensure the smoothest Affino experience over the ...

The most significant development for Social Commerce will be for sites to lead and support customers up the customer ladder. Each rung takes a person through the higher engagement levels, starting with them getting to know you and your products right through to encouraging and supporting their evangelising on your behalf.

The next release of Affino will deliver on this golden standard in a way no platform has done.

The Background

Many years ago (1998) I was working ...