Major Upgrade to Blue MauMau

LEXINGTON - Blue MauMau has just performed a major upgrade to its daily news and community website. Besides the new look, the site has been upgraded to offer a more user friendly interface to find content, faster speeds and a number of member social networking functions.

The site was upgraded last night while North America slept. The site will be further configured today and for the next few days. Readers will see the far right-hand column change during Wednesday as the site is quickly built up. Your patience is greatly appreciated as we work hard to bring up this much more robust platform up to full speed.

Here are the five coolest new functions:

1. Members can set up their own private social networks
2. Members can see their own log of activities
3. Easier navigation, with pull down menus, expanded reading area, bigger text, search functions and more
4. Improved Weblinks to bookmark interesting small business web sites. Members can share and categorized by free tag for all to see and enjoy.
5. Improved video embedding and display for remarks and postings

Honorable mention should go to a greatly improved forums. Besides forum remarks, now polls, quiz forms and more can also be posted in forum discussions. Oh, and this is neat too. For you power writers, there is a new teaser sentence function that are easier to seperate in blogs as well. And there's much more.

What will come next is a series of videos on how to use Blue MauMau’s many, MANY community functions.

Why have we done this?

Because our mission is to "unleash social media tools to inform franchise investors." Honest answers are hard to find in investing in a franchise or small business opportunity. This site is aimed to provide all those neat Web 2.0 tools, that is to say social media technology, to help readers network online with experts and front-line practioners so that readers can make better informed business investment decisions. 

I hope that readers will benefit by receiving freely from the wealth of information on Blue MauMau as well as by freely giving - contributing comments (guests) or even blogging (registered members) in the fashion of the new model of citizen journalism for the benefit of all. At a very minimum, give an article that you read a one to five star ranking (the tool is located below every article) to let the authors know if they are on track or not in providing good information.