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September 15, 2009
We’ve just launched a brand new Reunion Organiser on Friends Reunited, to make it easier to get back together with your old classmates.
Organising a reunion is now really quick and simple – but what’s more – it’s now completely free!
To try the new Reunion Organiser, visit your school here and click on the reunion tab.
Improvements to the new Reunion Organiser include:
• A new member list, listing who‘s invited and who‘s attending
• An “organiser update” feature, allowing the event organiser to update invitees if plans change
• A devoted message board, where you can chat to your old friends and discuss the upcoming event
Visit your school to get started >>
Good luck setting up a reunion of your own!
The team at Friends Reunited
www.friendsreunited.co.uk/Team
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July 31, 2009
To make it easier for friends to find and contact you, you can now share your profile and photo albums with anyone you like, even if they’re not on Friends Reunited.
Create your own unique place on the web by choosing a Friends Reunited username, which will form part of your own web page address.
Once created, your page will become public, meaning you can easily share your page with friends, family and co-workers, even if they’re not a member of the site. People you invite can then bookmark your page and use it as the single place on the web to keep in touch and stay up-to-date with your life.
Remember, you can easily control what people can and can’t see on your page in Privacy Settings
If you want to find out more, take a look at the FAQs page here
You can chose any username you like on a first-come, first-served basis (chose wisely, once created it can’t be changed), so make sure you get yours now!
The team at Friends Reunited
www.friendsreunited.co.uk/Team
Tags:Friends Reunited, profile, public, Share, username
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May 29, 2009
Photo tagging is a great new feature we’ve just added to Friends Reunited. Tagging simply allows you to label who’s pictured in a photo, just like the image below.
Tagging your friends and family in photos is also a great way to share your snaps. Once you have tagged someone, they’ll be sent a link to view the photo.
You can tag anyone you like, whether they have a Friends Reunited account or not – if they don’t, just enter their email address and they’ll be send an invitation to view the photo.
To start tagging, visit your photos here, and either click on the photo or click “Add a tag” in the bar beneath a photo. You can then draw a box over people’s faces to identify them.
There’s plenty more detail on photo tagging at our FAQs section >>
We hope you enjoy this great new feature,
The team at Friends Reunited
Tags:Friends Reunited, Photos, Tag, Tagging
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May 8, 2009
We’ve created a gadget for iGoogle so you can keep up to date with news and friends from your Friends Reunited account.
The gadget gives you a quick and easy way to check your Friends Reunited updates and notifications, with access to search for friends, visit your places and see your photos – all from one easy gadget on your iGoogle homepage.
To add this great new gadget to your iGoogle homepage, click here >>
Don’t have an iGoogle account? Sign up for free here >>
We’re always trying to find ways to make Friends Reunited easy and more fun to use – so we hope you find this new feature useful! Feel free to comment below and let us know what you think.
The team at Friends Reunited
Tags:Friends Reunited, gadget, iGoogle
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April 21, 2009
We want to map all the schools in the UK and we need your help getting their exact locations.
To do this, we’ve created a really simple map tool that you can use to add your schools. Just click on the “Go to maps” button (shown below) on your school’s homepage.
Go to your old school to get started >>
If you can’t see the “Go to maps” button on your school’s page, don’ worry – it just means your old school mates have already helped us locate it.
Thanks for helping us improve the site,
The team at Friends Reunited
Tags:friends, maps, primary, reunited, schools, secondary, university
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March 27, 2009
Recently, we’ve made some big improvements to our travel groups section.
We’ve partnered with Dorling Kindersley to bring you exclusive content from their DK Eyewitness Top 10 series.
Alongside the groups our members have created, there are now 20 specially created groups, dedicated to helping you get inspiration and information on 20 of the world’s most popular cities and areas. Each group has a range of useful information, so you can discover the highlights; including the top 10 events, restaurants, hotels, museums and historic buildings.
Visit the travel groups here >>
As usual, you’ll find a message board section to share advice, experiences and chat to other travellers, alongside an area to share your photos and special memories with others.
Here are a few of our favourite Travel Groups:
Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Costa Blanca, New York
Go explore!
The team at Friends Reunited
Tags:DK, Dorling, Eyewitness, friends, groups, Guides, Kindersley, reunited, Travel
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March 25, 2009
Instant chat is now available to all members of Friends Reunited, making it easier and more fun to stay in touch with your friends.
To start chatting, visit any of our groups where you can join an existing chat, or start your own. Up to 20 people can chat in the same group at once.
Check out the gray bar at the bottom of your Friends Reunited page, and start chatting now!
Don’t forget, if you can’t find a group you’re interested in, create your own and invite your friends to join in.
To find out more, visit our FAQ’s here
We hope you enjoy this great new feature,
The team at Friends Reunited
Please note: Chat is unavailable to members using Internet Explorer 6. To use chat, upgrade your browser here
Tags:chat, friends, groups, Instant, live, messenger, reunited
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March 16, 2009
You may have noticed we’ve added a grey bar to the bottom of your page on Friends Reunited. This is the Chat bar and allows you to talk with other members of your groups, on Friends Reunited. We’re live testing chat at the moment so there may be periods of non-availability in the coming days. Please bear with us whilst we work on adding this exciting feature to the site.
Chat allows you to hold conversations with members of a group, using an “Instant messenger”. You can join up to 5 chats at one time, each allowing up to 20 people to talk at once.
The chat bar should be visible at the bottom of your screen. You can start chatting by any of three ways:
- Chats taking place – Join a chat going on at one of your groups
- All chats taking place – Accessible via “Chats taking place”, showing all available chats
- Press the “Join chat” button when in a group you’re a member of.
If chat isn’t for you, you can hide the chat bar by pressing “hide”,
We appreciate you feedback during our testing phase. Please feel free to add comments on this post..
The team at Friends Reunited
To find out more, visit our FAQ’s here
Tags:chat, friends, groups, Instant, messenger, reunited
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