Changes Effected For Empower Network Version 2

By David Merrit


The Empower Network has experienced a number of improvements with the launch of ENV2, the current version of the EN blogging platform. This is definitely no big mystery to those people within this specific industry, as lots of EN members have been clamoring about it for the previous couple months.

To this point though, you might have had your email inbox flooded with mail from Empower Network members telling you that something new was coming, there hasn't been a lot of information concerning exactly what those improvements were going to be.

What is changing?

What we're looking at here with ENV2 is a comprehensive upgrade of the entire system, not merely a couple of basic changes. It is a whole new animal.

The chief focus on the new system has been on simplicity. And straightforward it is.

The popular blogging platform, Wordpress, was the base for the construction on the initial Empower Network blogging program. This was usable but left a lot to be desired for those who were not really technically oriented. For individuals like me, who have been blogging for a long time, the older system was okay. However for the bulk of new members it was still challenging and difficult and very far from "plug-and-play".

Someone must have been listening because the all-new version has really done quite a job to make things profoundly idiot-proof.

Now a completely unhatted blogger logs in, checks out the large image icons at the top of the Home page and makes their choice. The selections are text, video, image or audio. One will just fill out the necessary data, possibly pick a file to upload from their PC and that's it.

Unsure how such a thing could get any easier and still enable one to make a new post. One doesn't actually even have to be able to read.

Even the ability to edit the CODE of a new post has been taken out for the sake of less confusion. Just the visual editor is still present. While very skilled Wordpress users, especially those who prefer to create more complex alignments, tables, etc. can find this limiting, for the common person this is more pleasant and easy on the brain I would think.

Another aspect of the new version is the Empower Network app for your phone. The entire blogging platform was made to enable one to effortlessly blog making use of only their smart-phone. When it comes to individuals who choose to purchase the Empower Network video hosting plan, they are able to easily upload and post a video recorded on their iphone with merely a few thumb-clicks. The strategy was to free up the entrepreneur to ensure that he could operate from anywhere that he may use his smartphone.

ENV2 was designed specifically to enable coordination between your phone, the EN system and the EN video hosting service. Some people will complain about having to pay for video hosting services. This is understandable however using free video services like YouTube isn't a very intelligent thing to do for a business owner. Excessive chance of having one's account banned. No functionality has been eliminated for video embedding. It can still be done simply with an embed code or a YT link. The video hosting service offered by EN is available if one wishes to be able to do video blogging directly from their mobile phone with a couple clicks.

Your capacity to customize will be a little restricted by the improvements, as the simplicity is the emphasis and in order to simplify some functionality was consequently lessened. One would have to decide for themselves if this has any significance to their business.

For instance, posting photos into your blog posts right now takes two clicks and there is no necessity to decide on position or measurements for any graphics. The reason for this is that the Empower Network blogging system is going to instantly size all the graphics to the width of the content area. So no more wrapping content around images. Most people couldn't care less about this as a problem and truthfully, with almost all of the site visitors viewing the internet via mobile devices these days, the photos and text are realigned for browsing anyhow. This only makes things quicker and less complicated.

Special in the brand-new version is something referred to as an "Activity Feed", like your Facebook feed. Empower Network customers now find a feed when they log in, which consists of fragments of new blog posts written by other Empower Network members to whom they are connected.

On any new content that you make now you can choose to have an extract of that post made available to groups of your choosing within their Activity Feed. Every new post may be made available to all people in your EN group or just to certain levels of membership. This may be useful for those who prefer to have exclusive content set aside for a certain membership level, or when the article is only relevant to certain membership levels.

And also Empower Network has incorporated the capacity to do a one-click swipe of any of the blogs you discover on your Activity Feed. This is fast content curation and gives lots of possibilities for social engagement and marketing by itself.

Altogether the significantly technically challenged and the novice will find the new ENV2 machine to be significantly simpler and a much reduced learning curve in comparison to the earlier platform.




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