Blogs

Start Two-Way Conversations with Your Clients With SciBlog

Would you like to become yet more interactive? With NGRPulse you can publish your personal as well as corporate blogs and receive reader's comments. You can manage any number of blogs and allow one or more users to add new posts. Your blog can also be shared through RSS feeds and keep your audience aware of new content. You can also fully customize the design of the blog with your own graphics and widgets.

Awesome Workflow

SciBlog has covered all aspects of blogging like composing, drafting, tagging, rating, or maintaining blogs. You will find that this blog feature makes publishing news easy!

Advanced Media Management

Pictures paint a thousand words. With SciBlog, you can paint the best blog post using our advanced Media Manager. The best part is you can also pull your photos from Flickr albums. Get images from folders that can be accessed publicly or set it for specific user access only.

Micro Blogging Updates

Need to post a quick update in your blog like pictures, quotes, or videos? Use the Quick Update feature to post these updates instantly, Tumblr style. You can post mini blogs instantly from your own Twitter account too!

Feed Imports

Ever wanted to share those interesting blogs from other websites to your users? SciBlog allows you to import feeds from these websites or blogs and publish them into your own blog!

Team Blogging

For better blogging collaboration and productivity, you can group bloggers into teams or groups. You can assign specific bloggers into specific teams for specific blog topics, systematically.

NGRPulseMail Integration

Let NGRPulseMail take charge of your mailing list subscribers and send email alerts whenever a new blog is published. SciBlog also comes with its own email subscription system that you could use to send alerts via email whenever a new blog is posted.

Weever Apps Integration

If you need to read posts from SciBlog in your mobile phone, Weever Apps lets you view them. With Weever Apps, your can view your SciBlog posts professionally optimized for iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry and tablets.

Multiple Blogs

You can have multiple bloggers posting content into their own blogs simultaneously. Each blogger is unique and they can maintain their own blogs with their own blog templates. You can create multiple blog environments all within one single SciBlog installation.

Blog Image

Assign specific images to represent your blog posts with blog images. This works when you set a picture as a featured image in your blog listing view that is organized. Your blogs will appear clean and easily readable in your site.

Email Blogging

Post your blogs into SciBlog from your favorite email client such as GMail, Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail. Compose your blog in your email account elsewhere and post it into SciBlog.

Remote Blogging

Need to post a blog but not at your desk? You can still blog remotely using XML-RPC protocol software like Windows Live Writer, ScribeFire and MarsEdit.

Scheduled Publishing

Don't want to miss out an idea for future blogs? Why not blog it now, save it and publish it at a later date, automatically, on a predefined date.

Access Control Lists

You can restrict certain activities that users or user groups can do in SciBlog. It's a neat security feature and highly configurable in managing activities in your blog.

Protect your post

Set your blog to be viewed in public, private or limited to selected users or user groups, with just a few clicks.

Shared Avatars

Let your users express themselves during discussions as NGRPulseDiscuss can pull user profiles and avatars from other apps like SciBlog, NGRPulseSocial and more.

Compose Now, Edit Later

You can blog new topics and save them for future editing and publishing. SciBlog can also auto-save your blogs.

Alerts & Notifications

Keep visitors updated to your latest blogs and comments with RSS feeds or via email alerts. You can also choose to receive either all or selected notifications as you wish by email notifications.

Featured Blogs

Want to showcase your favorite blog post? Show them in a slideshow manner to feature all your blogs at the top of all your other blogs. This feature can help direct more traffic to your popular blogs too!

Unicode URLs

Localize your blog titles in your own language characters. SciBlog supports these special characters to appear in your blog permalinks, giving you and your blog visitors feel at home.

Keywords Tagging

Label your blogs with keywords and phrases by tagging them so that your blogs are organised and accessible. Search engines will reward blogs tagged with relevant keywords!

Content Editing

Build your blog content with ease using WYSIWYG editing tools including JCE, TinyMCE, CodeMirror. You also have the flexibility to enter your own HTML codes for that desired blog styling.

Geo-location Tagging

Tag your blogs where ever you are to show users where the blog is posted or where a photo is taken. Your blog will display a Google Map with the exact location of the published blog.

Search Engine Friendly

SciBlog is a search engine magnet! You have loads of options in optimizing your blog URLs and permalinks.

Configurable Toolbar

Choose which buttons to appear in your SciBlog toolbar. You can configure the kind of buttons you desire to perform certain actions for your users.

Email Notification

Receive latest blogs and latest comments via email. SciBlog automatically sends out email notifications direct to subscriber email accounts.

Nested Categories

Manage your blog posts professionally with categories, using either nested or multi-tiered category selection.

Comments

Let your users express themselves with comments in this blog component! You can use SciBlog's built-in comment system.

With NGRPulse you can enable site visitors to comment your posts and give you feedback. You have also full control over the content of the comments using:

• moderation
• disabling comments (always or after given number of days)
• abuse reporting
• automatic bad word removal

Trackbacks and Pings

The blogs may display a trackback URL for every post, which allows other bloggers to ping your blog with their reply. The name of their own blog post is then stored in your blog post comments. You can also ping other blog posts from your blog if you know their trackback URL.

On-Site Editing

Using NGRPulse, you can edit the blog posts either through the administration interface or through the web site front-end with remarkable ease and efficiency. You can allow site members to create their own blogs and manage them without having access to the administration interface. This feature leverages the support for user generated content in NGRPulse.

Social Buttons Integration

Keep your followers glued to your site by sharing your blogs in Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and many more. Display these social buttons in your blogs for the convenience of users to share blogs in their social profiles.

Automatic Social Sharing

You or your users can set blogs to automatically publish into social networks whenever a new blog is posted. You only need to blog and let SciBlog share your blogs and get more traffic from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn for you!

Rating System

Content rating is another NGRPulse feature available for blog posts. It allows you to recognize what content your readers like most and focus on that to make your blog even more successful.

Increase user participation by allowing them to vote for their favorite posts with the five-star rating feature.