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  <body>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;rsquo;ve been&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;rather quiet lately, but in the last three weeks we&amp;rsquo;ve had two releases; I&amp;rsquo;m just now finally getting around to blogging about them.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m pretty excited to announce that we&amp;rsquo;ve added Site Notifications and Basic Search to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Site News/Notifications&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s where I point the obvious since many of you are reading this blog post via your mail inbox and that&amp;rsquo;s because we&amp;rsquo;ve added a Site Notification Feature.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Your best members are the ones you already have &amp;ndash; so it&amp;rsquo;s important to be able to reach out to you, our members, with the latest news and updates to the site. &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;We don&amp;rsquo;t want to spam you or be intrusive, therefore, it&amp;rsquo;s very easy to unsubscribe to the Site News/Notifications. Login and go to Settings and under Notifications unmark the check in Site News. To save the change click Change Notifications.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.whygosolo.com/blog/2008/notifications.png" border="0" width="595" height="184" align="middle" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3 Reasons to Keep Receiving Site News&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Although it&amp;rsquo;s very easy to unsubscribe, we would love it if you waited before unsubscribing and here are the top three reasons why:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Handshake Contests:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; FREE TICKETS!&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;FREE TICKETS! FREE TICKETS! This is going to be our initial preferred method of letting you know about the free tickets we receive &amp;ndash; so if you want to win the tickets&amp;hellip;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;New Features on the Horizon:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Don&amp;rsquo;t miss out on the new cool features you&amp;rsquo;ve been waiting for us to implement!! This is going to be the best way to track the release of our latest releases and new features.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;News and Updates:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; If you are interested in who we are and what we do &amp;ndash; this is going to be the most convenient method of getting the major highlights and updates.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;        &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;We will keep sending out notifications to a minimum&amp;hellip;we promise!&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Basic Search: Find Other Members&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.whygosolo.com/blog/2008/header.png" border="0" width="532" height="78" align="middle" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;This was long overdue!!&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;You can now search the site for other members by Location, Age, Sex, and Marital Status.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The next step will be adding search by interests and opened community listings.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.whygosolo.com/blog/2008/find-members-box.png" border="0" width="595" height="372" align="left" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;With that being said &amp;ndash; if you haven&amp;rsquo;t entered a location to your profile&amp;hellip;please consider doing so since that will help other members in your area find you.    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reminder&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Just a quick reminder that we do have the ability to send your listings to &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com" target="_blank"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; and to your&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=6983101283" target="_blank"&gt; Facebook Profile&lt;/a&gt; in order to tap in your already established networks to find people to join you to go out and do the things you want to do.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Final Thought&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;We have some exciting features and news on the horizon so keep an eye out for us&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;Your WhyGoSolo Team&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</body>
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  <title>New Features: Site Notification and Search</title>
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