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Durban-based tech company, immedia has invested R10-million to help African media entrepreneurs to build sustainable community radio by using Fabrik, a set of cloud-enabled digital tools that empower media entities to live-stream shows, grow and engage with audiences around the world, and benefit financially by monetising their audiences. Read more

South Africa: Durban-based tech company, immedia has invested R10-million to help African media entrepreneurs to build sustainable community radio by using Fabrik, a set of cloud-enabled digital tools. Read more

South African full-service technology company, immedia, has invested R10-million ($684, 230) with the aim of helping African media entrepreneurs to build sustainable community radio. This will be accomplished through the use of Fabrik, a set of cloud-enabled digital tools that empower media entities to live-stream shows, grow and engage with audiences around the world whilst benefitting financially through the monetisation of their audiences. Read more

Durban-based tech company immedia has invested R10m to help African media entrepreneurs to build sustainable community radio by using Fabrik, a set of cloud-enabled digital tools that empower media entities to livestream shows, grow and engage with audiences around the world and benefit financially by monetising their audiences. The 25-year-old company, which has the backing of Microsoft and the Industrial Development Corporation, has been developing their Fabrik technology since 2017. Fabrik allows media entrepreneurs to upend the traditional notion of “we broadcast and you receive”, by creating a feedback loop that directly helps the stations and listeners that use it to leapfrog old technology, to become citizen journalists and find their strategic space in a digitally transformed world. It is already being used by 15 commercial clients, including radio stations Gagasi FM, Smile 90.4FM and YFM. As part of its Digital Leap programme, immedia will be giving its platform to qualifying media entrepreneurs across Africa for free for a year. This includes consultation, training and support to help monetize the technology, cumulatively valued at R10 million. Phil Molefe, a veteran of broadcast radio in South Africa, Fabrik’s head of business development and strategy, says the programme was key to the company’s vision to spearhead media transformation. He says the uptake of Fabrik by energetic entrepreneurs at community radio stations showed how empowering the suite of digital tools is. “It enables them to deepen their relationship with their audience and monetise it sustainably because the quality of their engagement with listeners is meaningful.” Building stable, sustainable community radio across Africa Molefe points out that while community media is often under-resourced and struggles to retain skills, the company’s case studies have shown that it is more than possible for them to thrive - and that the Digital Leap programme is the kind of opportunity they need, and can succeed on. Fabrik helps media entrepreneurs by solving key challenges for them, including: Providing them with a mobile application that allows community and campus radio stations to livestream shows, as well host podcasts, allowing them to reach audiences well beyond the geographic constraints of their traditional radio broadcast signal. By shifting to a cloud-based tool, radio stations get access to archival and backup that is compliant with BCCSA and Icasa regulations. This helps them to significantly cut down on time and resources required to manually back up radio content to on-site servers or even tape. Messaging functionality, including push notifications, so that stations can better engage with their communities, publish written or multimedia content and even promote active conversation between listeners. Push notifications help drive engagement by bringing attention to active competitions, surveys and polls, recently published content, and more. By encouraging listeners to register as a member and provide some of their personal information, such as geographics and demographics, stations are able to build audience profiles for their listeners, and gain a better understanding of their needs and preferences. These detailed analytics provided by Fabrik gives stations the data they need to convince advertisers and marketers of the value of promoting their products and services through the station’s app, helping bring in much needed revenue. Fabrik has a range of users, and about 60% of their listeners have an opt-in relationship with their broadcasters. By building and growing owned communities, stations then stand to benefit financially by serving highly relevant ads to their digital listeners. In addition, where sales conversions on social media are around 2%, Fabrik users enjoy 8%. According to Tamie Mbombo, head of marketing and PR at Izwi loMzansi, one of the largest community radio stations in South Africa, says that the platform has revolutionised the station’s engagement with its listeners, and has led the digital charge with featured podcasts and integrated advertising campaigns on the Izwi mobile app. “Community media’s aim is to provide trusted information and expression, and Fabrik has helped do that,” he says. A change of mindset is required The Fabrik team made some interesting observations based on the experiences of early adopters of the technology, including around community radio, where many advertisers and business decision-makers are often dismissive of the audience. “For example, one of our clients is a station with an audience in the LSM four to six range. That audience is typically regarded as ‘too poor’ or too marginalised to go digital and yet our clients are proving that they are taking to it like ducks to water,” Molefe says. He says that the take up by media entrepreneurs, either regarded as ‘on the fringes’ or as outliers, is the best showcase for Fabrik. “They are doing what they do because nobody told them they couldn’t - and it is proving to be a great leveller. We’ve seen how powerful this platform is in the community media space, which is why we are looking at boosting the rate of transformation.” Watch the full event here:

How ready is your business for digital transformation? If your answer is 'not very', the data shows that you're not alone. Read more

How ready is your business for digital transformation? If your answer is “not very”, the data shows that you’re not alone. That’s the answer we received from a surprising number of our clients we canvassed in a recent survey. We got a similar response when we polled our audience during a recent webinar on 'Radio's Digital Transformation in a Data-Driven Age'. Watch the webinar: https://youtu.be/kmusgBFh5ys I say “surprising” because you’d expect companies in the media and broadcasting space to be ahead of the digital curve. While many undoubtedly are, particularly those who have adopted digital tools such as Fabrik, quite a few others aren’t as ready for digital transformation as they might need to be. If 2020 has shown us anything, it’s that momentous change is not only inevitable, it’s upon us, whether we’re ready or not. While we were all busy drawing up our ‘Digital Transformation’ strategies and debating the definition of “4IR”, Covid came along and thrust everyone off a cliff into a digital sea. Whether your company sinks or swims may depend on how quickly and adeptly you adapt to a new reality, one where formerly fringe concepts like WFH (work from home) have entered the business mainstream and niche products like Zoom have become verbs – much as Google and Skype did for an earlier generation of netizens. The good news is that there are three practical things you can do starting today that will help ensure your success in this regard. While the experience I draw on is largely in technology and broadcasting, these three principles are relevant for decision makers in most industries who find themselves confronting the reality of digital transformation. 1. Look within It may not always be apparent, but most members of your organisation can help point the way to your digital transformation priorities. The younger people are more obviously digitally savvy, having grown up in a world of smartphones, memes and connectivity. But don’t discount your older team members. They’ve already lived through the arrival of - and in many cases helped usher into their workspaces – tech like fax machines, the internet, email and voice conferencing, long before the arrival of instant messaging and video calls. They bring a wealth of institutional knowledge and expertise as well as solid values and ethics to any discussions around your company’s digital transformation journey, all of which can be the perfect counterpoint to their younger colleagues’ enthusiasm, energy and comfort with cutting edge tech and the latest trends. This may mean looking at your people through new eyes, employing a collaborative process, and being receptive to ideas from unexpected quarters. But if you’re open to allowing discourse, debate and conversation, looking within will help you find the seeds of change - and maybe also the agents of that change - inside your own organisation. 2. Look without While change starts from within, looking outwards can take its positive effects to an entirely new level. Internal collaboration unlocks the potential of your own team, but external collaboration can unleash the power of the entire supply chain. To get started, identify at least one external partner – perhaps a supplier or even a key customer or a loyal advertiser – who would be prepared to take this digital journey of discovery with you. Try looking at your supply chain in an entirely new way and identifying individual links as potential partners. Digital transformation is a convergence problem and the more partners you have in this journey, the more perspective you can collectively bring to solving problems. Taking this path requires courage and will push you well out of your comfort zone. It will require a leap of faith and trust in your prospective partners. But the rewards are worth it. 3. Adopt a culture of change If it wasn’t already apparent, 2020 has driven home the fact that change isn’t a once off, but a continuous, often disconcerting, reality of life. To survive and thrive in this state of constant flux, you will need to adapt your internal culture and structure to embrace change and encourage it within your organisation. This may involve re-examining the metrics you currently use to measure progress, productivity and other organisational priorities. You’ll need to ask yourself, “Do the things we measure encourage change or do they entrench established practices that may be at odds with change?” As important as being agile and responsive to change is finding consensus as an organisation on what constitutes good change. Chaos is change, but you want to avoid that. Throwing stuff up against the wall and seeing what sticks is not meaningful change. Nor is change for change’s sake. Yes, the prospect of transformation can be daunting. But doing nothing simply leaves you vulnerable to unwanted and unexpected changes you haven’t planned for. So, tap into the insights, energy and experience of your own staff and external stakeholders, then have a robust conversation on what kind of change you want. If our own experience and that of our partners is anything to go on, this will get you out of the starting blocks and further along the path to sustainable digital transformation than many, maybe all, of your competitors. In a recent webinar on digital transformation in the Radio industry, Anice delves into the subject in a lot more detail, as well as discussing issues like customer privacy and opportunities for real-time rich data in metrics. “You are not flying blind. That’s the digital transformation - it makes reality a lot more accountable.”

We know that starting anything new can be hard, and that as your organisation embarks on your journey of digital transformation, your advertisers need to come along too. One of the most simple, yet powerful ways you can start to build familiarity and trust with your advertisers, generate revenue and connect with your audience is by using app billboards. What is an app billboard? An app billboard is a promotional image that appears for a few seconds after your app is launched. Billboards are a popular choice for advertisers, and can also be used communicate special campaigns or any other newsworthy information you'd like to share with your audience. Within your app, you have the option to display more than one billboard at the same time. These can represent separate advertisers/campaigns or a single campaign with a number of different billboards. If you are flighting a number of billboards at the same time, you can choose whether you'd like them to appear in a particular order, or randomly. You also have the option to add a call-to-action to your billboard which could consist of either a clickable link allowing app members to navigate to a website or a clickable button allowing them to dial through to a predetermined phone number. The billboard/s will display once every 10 minutes so if you're coming in and out of the app frequently, the maximum amount of times the billboard/s will be shown is once every 10 minutes. And once you're in the app, there's no need to quit and reopen in order to view the billboards again. Simply tap the star in the top right of your app. Benefits of using app billboards Billboards can be used effectively to stimulate app engagement and offer value to your advertisers regardless of what industry you're in. Our customers across all industries, such as broadcast entities, residential communities or business groups, use billboards to support their business objectives in a few different ways, including: Promoting local business specials, products and deals. Providing community-interest info such as Covid-19 awareness. Supporting broader engagement campaigns or initiatives. Building strong brand affiliation over a longer period of time. Informing audiences on features and functionality within the app. Introducing an Advertiser to Billboards Billboards are a low-risk way to introduce a new advertiser to your digital audience, or to get an existing advertiser comfortable with the wide range of app-based inventory options available. It's easy to measure and provide statistics on the performance of a billboard campaign and, for an advertiser who would like quick in-flight changes, it's so simple to change or adjust a billboard on-the-fly. Pricing of billboards could also be offered at an introductory or promotional price, or part of a package with other elements such as on-air or social media. You can price this inventory in a similar way to your other inventory so as not to deter your advertisers from being willing to experiment. You could even consider offering premium pricing if a customer would like their billboard to always appear first when the app is launched. how to set up a billboard campaign Now that you've aware of what an app billboard is and its benefits, there are a few simple steps before you're ready to run a successful billboard campaign, whether it's an internal initiative or a partnership with an advertiser. Step 1: Plan your Billboard Campaign For the purpose of this exercise, let's imagine our community is hosting a Fun Run to raise funds for the local SPCA. The community would like to share a billboard in their app to let people know about the event, and potentially add a link navigating to a website for registrations or ticket purchases. Some questions you can ask when considering how to create your billboard are: What is the message you'd like to get across? Is it simply one billboard or a campaign of several billboards? Would you like the billboard to link through to a website or video when tapped? How long would you like the billboard to run for? Step 2: Design your Billboard Once you've decided what it is you'd like to say in your billboard, it's time to create the design. As this stage, it is important to be aware of a few simple guidelines to ensure that the billboard displays appropriately within your app. One design for the billboard will be required, which will respond to different device sizes. The actual size of the billboard will be different to the size of the 'safe area' which is the area that will be visible within the app, to accommodate for different device sizes. Any text included in the billboard should not be too small or illegible, and images should be clear and not too detailed. Below is an example of what our Fun Run billboard could look like. Including a call-to-action button that informs the member that the billboard is clickable will help our community find out more and maybe even sign up. Step 3: Submit your billboard to the Fabrik team for flighting Once your billboard design is complete, and you've decided how long you'd like the campaign to run for, you're ready to get started with your campaign! When you're ready to submit your billboard/s for flighting, please contact our Customer Success team who will do that for you. Measuring the impact of a billboard campaign Once the billboard is live, you will need to find reporting and insights about how the advertising campaign is performing. This information is available within the Metrics application, where you'll be able to see exactly how many times the billboard was viewed within the campaign and, if there was a clickable URL associated with it, how many times the billboard was clicked or tapped. To find out more about how to use billboards to engage with your advertisers or to flight your next billboard, please get in touch with our Customer Success team. And stay tuned for some exciting upgrades we have coming to app billboards soon! further info Read more about Fabrik's other Advertising Inventory possibilities. Watch our webinar about different campaign ideas and opportunities within Fabrik.

Execute a high-impact, integrated campaign that works across your digital platforms to support your audience growth and engagement objectives. Fabrik's suite of applications can enhance your traditional audience engagement campaign by adding a powerful real-time element, along with sophisticated campaign insights and metrics you can leverage in-flight to increase your outcomes. To help you get more comfortable with executing app-based campaigns, we'd like to share some guidelines on how you can get started. Let's imagine an example of a campaign that can more clearly illustrate these steps. How about something like 'Create your own Christmas Jingle?' For this kind of campaign, we'll be asking our app members to send us a voice-note of themselves singing their most festive Christmas tune. The winner at the end would be the person who'd sent through the best one! Step 1: Plan your campaign The first step in this process is to consider what you'd like to get out of the campaign, and start to plan the activities required to achieve those goals. Determine your Campaign Objectives: The objective/s you'd be aiming to achieve with an app-based campaign should ideally support your Business Strategy, such as: growing your digital audience or membership, increasing engagement, or obtaining more meaningful demographic or psychographic information about your membership. For each campaign, consider any particular objectives you have around audience growth or engagement, and whether there are specific audience insights you'd like to gain or habits you'd like your audience to form. These could be objectives such as: Educate your audience on how to use key functionality of the app i.e. sending voice-notes or images. Increase the size of your app audience through new downloads. Increase the size of your addressable audience through new registrations. Enhance audience insights through the addition of new profile fields or through surveys and polls. Create a compelling case study you can take to future advertisers or sponsors. In our Christmas Jingle campaign example, we want to increase the size of our audience and engagement through new app downloads and registrations, as well as introduce our audience to the concept of sending voice-notes. Create your Campaign Mechanic: Consider how you'd like to invite your audience to enter the campaign in a manner that aligns with your objectives. Ensure that the mechanic is easy enough to follow so it does not deter your audience from entering. For example, in our Christmas Jingle campaign, we would want to encourage our members to Download the Fabrik app. Register your profile. And send us your most festive Christmas Jingle via the Contact Us conversation! You'd also want to make sure your mechanic is very clear when it's being mentioned within social media promotions or during your on-air broadcast. For more fun campaign ideas, check out this video with promotions expert Jonathan Lumley! Choose Inventory to support your Campaign: There are a number of in-app inventory options you can use to support your campaign objectives within the app, including a promotional billboard, or even a pre-roll audio that can be added to your live-stream or podcasts, or both! Within our Christmas Jingle campaign, we're adding a festive billboard and an audio pre-roll (a clip that plays before our livestream and each podcast) to remind our audience about the campaign and how to enter. Read more about the various kinds of advertising options available. Engage with potential Advertisers: When planning the campaign, consider whether it would work best as an internal engagement campaign, or whether you'll invite an advertiser to be a part of it. This may be a good opportunity to get one or more of your advertisers or partners acquainted with how to use the app, and demonstrate how their investment can yield pleasing results. Consider offering sponsored prizes to incentivise your audience to engage with the campaign, and ensure they pose a large-enough incentive to obtain the engagement you're looking for. STEP 2: CONFIGURE YOUR APP At the heart of any Fabrik-powered campaign is your mobile app, and using it effectively throughout the campaign is important to maintain a high level of engagement and interest with your audience. Plan your App Engagement and Content: The way the app's Messaging functionality is employed is a key part of sustaining audience engagement throughout the campaign. During our Christmas Jingle campaign, we might consider adding a dedicated channel for the duration of the campaign where we could share regular updates about the campaign, celebrate winners, etc. Consider whether you'd like to make it a Conversation in which people would be able to chat about the competition, or a Channel in which only Trusted Members in your organisation can share information that everyone else can view. Watch this video to learn how to use Conversations and Channels more effectively. Create your campaign using Campaign Manager: To make it easier to monitor and measure the impact and engagement of your campaign, you'd want to track responses to the campaign using Smashboard's Campaign Manager. Campaign Manager empowers you to enter a particular keyword associated with the campaign that would be monitored throughout, and facilitates the selection of winners from those who've submitted entries using that keyword. In the event that your campaign is active across other messaging platforms, you also have the option to consolidate all entries from Twitter, Facebook or even SMS. Update your app's Profile Fields: Consider the kinds of information you'd like to collect from your audience, and use your campaign as an opportunity to encourage people to update these fields. Profile fields are configured within the Community Centre application and can be set as 'Required' or 'Optional.' STEP 3: set up your Promotions In order to ensure the success of your campaign, there are a number of activities you can embark upon to promote your new campaign and create awareness. Use Social Media to create awareness about the campaign & drive engagement: Use all your social media platforms to create awareness around your campaign, mention the entry mechanic often and share information about winners to create buzz and excitement. Put together a content plan to begin a few days before the campaign and to run throughout the course of the campaign Set aside some budget to boost specific posts promoting the campaign within which you'll ask your followers or those targeted with the content to download your app. Co-ordinate any other Promotional Activities: Consider how else you could create awareness around your campaign. Rally your internal team around incorporating the campaign into their routine communication initiatives like monthly emailers or your on-air broadcast. If your organisation is a radio station, consider prepping your presenters with live-reads they can incorporate into each show or include your on-air audience in the fun by getting your presenters to read out the winners on air, or better yet, call the winners back on air and ask them to answer the call with a specific phrase to win. Step 4: execute & Monitor your campaign It's now time to execute! During the duration of your campaign, your aim will be to optimise the effectiveness and impact of the campaign to provide the best ROI possible. Looking at the data on a daily basis will help inform "in-flight" tweaks that need to be made to the execution, and help keep all important stakeholders informed on the campaign progress. Create in-campaign analyses for internal and external stakeholders: Keep all stakeholders informed throughout the campaign with regular updates. Consider including information like new downloads, new registrations, daily engagements via Smashboard's Campaign Manager and social media engagement. You can obtain all this information easily using the Metrics application. Watch this video to learn about the engagement information available within Metrics. If you've included an additional action in your campaign mechanic like asking your audience to update their Profile Fields, you may want to include some information about how many individuals have updated those fields. Get in touch with our Customer Success team if you'd like access to insights or information that are not yet available within Metrics. Step 5: Create your post-campaign Reporting Fabrik offers powerful data and audience insights after the fact, which you can use to demonstrate value to your advertisers or impact to your team. Create a post-campaign analysis: Use Fabrik Metrics to create an insightful post-campaign analysis which your stakeholders can use to gauge the impact of the campaign. Create a campaign case study: Once you've created your post-campaign analysis, you may want to package it in a different way, to appeal to your press office for added publicity, or send out to your Sales teams which they can use to engage with potential advertisers. Further Info: Read this case study around how one of our customers successfully implemented a Fabrik-powered campaign. Watch our recent webinar around how a Fabrik customer achieved over 1 million campaign entries!

Exciting new technologies promise to make radio more accessible and engaging than it has ever been. This includes app-based platforms that enable broadcasters to engage with listeners like never before, software that lets producers edit sound as easily as a text document, and a 'radio station in a bucket' that turns a mobile phone onto a broadcast hub. Read more

I vividly remember sitting in my bedroom back in the 1990’s, next to my double cassette deck and radio combo with detachable speakers - yes, my Pirate Bay friends, back then I could record straight onto cassette from the radio. I was listening to a competition on Radio 5. It was a clip of 10 songs spliced together into 10 seconds and I knew all 10 clips! I stole a call on my parents’ landline to the station, but I wasn’t able to get through because the lines were jammed. Fast forward a few years later and I was the desk controller at Highveld Stereo directing all the buttons for Carnival City’s “Beat the Bomb” promotion. What an experience to see how the competition worked at the backend and how excited the audience was. By the way, a decade later, we still used phone calls as the entry mechanism and all six of our lines were “jammed”. I laugh now because I can’t imagine telling a client today that their campaign was a success because all the telephone lines to the station were blocked by callers. Yet, that was a measurement of success. Things changed when SMSes became a standard competition entry. And now, voice notes. But first the SMS. Back then the total SMS numbers delighted the client, until we could see the UNIQUE count and we found out only 100 people sent all those SMSes in the first place. Now we are discovering true engagement in radio. But unfortunately, not from industry itself. And that’s why I left radio. I have joined a Durban company, a team of developers and broadcast veterans whom I have known for years. They opened my eyes to a suite of digital radio tools called Fabrik. It is that nirvana that radio has been looking for. Except it’s not here to disrupt or topple you, it is a massively empowering tool to help. The impact speaks for itself. I have seen radio stations use the product to great effect. Imagine having a dashboard view of who is listening to the station, a view of how many people are interacting with you, and from what area of the country and with what device? There is tons more information. It is all on one platform and it is all available in real time. It is that incredible and I left radio for this. The way radio typically tries to serve its advertisers is to have an outside supplier give them a messaging system and message board. Another supplier hosts your podcasts and live streams and another company will build you an app. Another will host your website. And yet none of these systems “speak” to another. Sure, you get some information and data from some platforms, but never a view into the audience to interact with them or to have a full repository for your audience. To put it another way, imagine your radio station had a way to put everyone in one place and get them to send you voice notes from your own app, and then build up a profile of that engaged audience? Imagine you could find out how many people were listening to you at any given time and were able to picture that listening behaviour to understand over time what it actually means. This is something that RAMS has never been able to achieve, and now it’s a tangible thing. Now, of course, the more astute of you will say, “yes but that’s just a small section of my total audience”… and yes that’s true. But what if you actually grow YOUR OWN platform? Instead of pushing Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter or Instagram for feedback, you can actually have access to YOUR OWN listeners to communicate with in your own environment, in real time. Maybe, just maybe that is a better option than the disparate tools you currently deploy that still don’t let you know anything about your audience. This is harnessing digital. It takes us that much closer to understanding our audiences at a more granular level. Media buyers are familiar with social media dashboards, or web view engagement figures which they use to view or deep dive into. Now we have it for radio, with Fabrik. And it is a real digital offering for those same media buyers. Now radio can harness digital in its own way. It is a true engagement audience metric. There are no bots. Just real audience figures. The audience is ready. Is your radio station? To find out more about the outcomes that our clients are experiencing with Fabrik, check out our guest webinars on YouTube or read our case studies.

As any online community grows in size and chattiness, it's crucial that members feel that they are in a safe and respectful environment that upholds their values. At the same time, as a community administrator, it can be a concern when considering how to create a safe space where members within large, highly-engaged audiences behave respectfully. Engagement is important - the lifeblood of any online community - but it’s equally important that community administrators have a way to manage that engagement without lengthy additions to existing workflows. App stores like Google’s Play Store and Apple’s App Store also have strict requirements protecting app members from user-generated content they deem 'objectionable,' and require developers to provide a method for members to flag this content. In our aim to make sure your app is compliant and passes all requirements from the app vendors, Fabrik app members now have the ability to report content they deem inappropriate within a conversation, or block members they'd prefer not to see messages from in future. Your team as the community administrators will then be prompted to review the reported content and choose to either remove or retain that content based on your community guidelines. Here's how the planned changes will help you manage your community with ease. How can your audience report objectionable content? The new 'Report a Message' and 'Block Member' options within your app are accessed by long-pressing on the particular message the individual would like to report, or a message sent by the individual they'd like to block. a) Block/report another member 'Block Member' will result in any content being shared by that particular member being hidden to the member who blocked them. b) Report a piece of objectionable content 'Report Message' will flag that piece of content to community admins, to be reviewed based on the reasons provided by the reporting member. How can your team moderate content? Step 1: Access Community Centre to view a consolidated list of all content that has been reported by your community. To access this functionality: Log in to Community Centre using your Fabrik account details. Click on 'Content Moderation' on the left-hand menu. Select 'Reports.' From this screen, you'll be able to view and navigate through a chronological list of all reported content, click on each item for more details or sort by the status of the 'Action' on each one. 'Sorting by Action' gives you the ability to see a list of all content with the same status grouped together, making it easier to take action on those items where action is required. Step 2: View more information about each reported piece of content. If you'd like to view any particular piece of reported content in detail, you can do so by clicking on the » arrow on the left of the member's username, on your initial dashboard view. This will open a more detailed view of the specific report and, from here, you'll be able to update the status and resolution message of that content. Step 3: Take an action on a piece of content. Once you've clicked on the 'Status' option, you'll be able to choose one of the following actions: Pending - this is the default state meaning this item still requires action. No Action - select this option when you feel the reported content does not contravene your community guidelines, and will remain visible within your app. Remove - select this option when you feel the content does contravene your community guidelines, and will be removed from your app. The 'Resolution message' is a place for you to add any pertinent information related to your decision for the rest of your team to view - this is not visible to any app member. Further Info Watch our walk-through of Community Centre's Community Management functionality.

In Seychelles, the public broadcaster will soon introduce a mobile application that will provide the majority of its broadcasts. The Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) announced this information in a statement. Read more