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Exciting news regarding your community -- NEW! Domain Registration. For all the details, click here!

Over the past eight months, you may have noticed an increased focus on Premium Hosting Packages with increased revenue-share for each paid upgrade. To continue providing you with the maximum revenue opportunities, we will be repositioning our hosting offerings to provide your members with increased Web space, file sizes and additional features. As a result, the free offering will also become more limited. Review the new hosting offering here.

Member Upgrades are finally here! For each one of your members that upgrades to a bannerless site you will be credited $1/month. As soon as your balance reaches at least $50.00 we will issue you a check. You can increase your monthly revenue by advertising the bannerless upgrades on your site. The more members you can convince to upgrade, the more money you'll make.

If you have any questions about member upgrades, please e-mail info@communityarchitect.com.

Over the next few months, we will be releasing various member upgrades. The first upgrade will be a bannerless upgrade. Your members will be presented the option to pay a monthly fee to have the banners removed from their site(s). As a partner, you benefit from member upgrades because you earn a portion of the revenue. For each active bannerless upgrade, your account will be credited $1/month. When your account reaches a balance of at least $50.00, a check will be sent to you within 30 days after the last day of the month.

If you have any questions about member upgrades, please e-mail info@communityarchitect.com.

Start off the new year with an upgrade to our Premier solution!
The Premier solution includes the same great tools as our co-branded solution, but for a very low cost will be private-labeled and branded with your look and feel. All Community Architect logos and branding will be removed from the tools. You also have the option of receiving 100% of the banner space or removing the banners that run on the end-user pages.

If you are interested in learning more about our new Premier solution, please contact your Community Architect representative or e-mail bizdev@communityarchitect.com.

As mentioned in our previous notice, we have reached a point where a new network is required to sustain the incredible growth our program is experiencing. This network will greatly enhance the reliability, speed, maintenance, and scalability of your Web Community. During the next 6-8 weeks, we will be transitioning all partner utilities and end-user sites to our new network.

The transition will occur partner by partner, along with their end-user sites. Your site and end-user sites will be viewable during the transition. However, during the day of the transition, the following tools may be briefly affected:

• All administrative utilities  
• End-user signups
• End-user's ability to upload to a site

Before & After the Transitioning you will need to do the following:

• Save custom survey responses because the data will not be ported over 
• If you have a custom survey, you will need to re-create it on the new system
• If you offer web-based e-mail to your community members, you will need to enter the e-mail branding section of your administration area after the transition and customize the e-mail branding

We will e-mail your members to inform them of the move and what to expect.

Once on the new network, you and your members will notice a number of changes:

• "Powered by Community Architect" logos instead of "North Sky" logos
• Sign-up form streamlined
• Additional Site Builder templates for end-users
• New banner frame
• Slightly different look to the "My Member" area
• Corkboard
• Community search
• A new e-mail solution with enhanced customization

Thank you for your patience during this transition -- the benefits will be well worth it!

Thank you for your continued participation in our community tools program - we are growing at an ever-increasing rate! We have the following three announcements that you should be aware of:
     1. After reviewing the success of the banner share, we have decided to give you an even higher percentage of the banner space. Effective on Tuesday, September 5, the banner share will increase to a 50/50 split.
     2. Recently we reached full capacity on some of our Web servers. This may have caused some of your community members to experience related problems. To remedy the situation, we have freed up a significant amount of space on those servers. In addition, we will be moving to a new architecture very shortly. This new architecture will include virtually unlimited scalability and increased reliability and speed.
     3. Due to low adoption rates and use, we began to question how valuable our proprietary instant messenger (Gab!) is in attracting members to your community and promoting interaction between existing members. Discussions with partners confirmed our concerns, and we have therefore decided to discontinue offering Gab!. While this is a difficult decision for us, we will be working to re-dedicate our current Gab! resources to developing functionality that will generate and integrate traffic throughout your community.

We will continue to support Gab! until we move to our new architecture. At that time, Gab! will be removed from the Community Set-up, and new members will not be able to sign up for the service. In the meantime, please disable any new Gab! sign-ups in the following manner:
· First, go to your administrative area.
· Then go to Community Set-up. Under "Community Settings", select "Don't Include" for the instant messenger.
· Click the "Save partner info changes" button.
This will remove all reference to Gab! on your site, and new members will not have the option of signing up. Members currently using Gab! may continue to use Gab! until November 15, after which Gab! will no longer be operational.