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Hello,

Since creating groups in GroupSwim is so easy, you can start blogs for your organization, team, or anyone for that matter.  Here are a couple of ways to do it:

1.    Create an auto-join (under Privacy and Permissions in Group Settings) group and name it Blogs (or whatever you want).  This gives anyone in the site access to it and anyone can post a blog and reply
2.    Create an auto-join group but make the blog for one person (one of our clients’ CEO does this).  Here is how you configure it:

Hello,

You may not have realized, but GroupSwim can serve as an excellent document repository for your group.  There are three ways to add documents:

1. Attach them to a discussion

Hello. I wanted to write a little bit about using the new "Custom Terminology" tool that we added to GroupSwim last week. 

First off, I want to point out that this feature is available to Site Owners Only. Site members do not have access to the following functionality.

This is a very cool feature; it allows you to rename the word 'Group'/'Groups' everywhere on your site to a term of your choosing. Want to call it 'Forums'? 'Channels'? 'Teams'? Go right ahead. 

Hello,

First, click on the site settings on the home page (new sites can skip this step.  It is turned on at the site level for you):

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Once you are in site settings, you'll need to enable email in for the site:

Check the box to turn it on:

Now that you've turned it on for your site, you'll need to turn it on for each group where you want to use it.  Click into a group to turn it on (FAQ on the screen shot below):

Hi. Designerman Luke here.  (image)

One of the cooler things you can do with our newest release (3.4) is really get fancy with customizing your group site's branding. There are two ways you can do it, and I'll outline them both here.

APPROACH 1: CHANGE YOUR THEME AND LOGO

This approach has been around, but I thought it would still be useful to walk you through it. There are a few simple steps to changing your theme and logo...