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Mar. 13
Tumblr Importer Fixes
Hey everyone! For those of you who have been experiencing problems with the Tumblr importer, great news: it’s fixed! Now you will be able to import all of your old study abroad posts into your SGG blog. Again, this feature can be found in the Import sub-menu of the Tools menu of your WordPress dashboard. Note:…
Jan. 05
New WordPress and V2 Updates
Hello everyone! Happy (belated) New Year! We hope your 2013 is off a great start SGG has undergone recent changes this weekend. We have two significant updates: a new and improved Media Uploader, as well as a Tumblr importer. Now all you Tumblr-users can easily import your posts to your SGG blog! (Speaking of Tumblr, are you following us…
Nov. 15
Minor Bug Fixes and Improvements
Hey everyone! We just wanted to let you know that we have made a few modifications to the website recently. These changes will help to improve page loading time, as well as correct minor issues with images breaking the page layout. Other parts of the website, such as the admin area and adding comments to…
Oct. 09
Want to test the new SGG site before everyone else?!
Hey all you SGG bloggers! If you didn’t already know, we have some GREAT new features coming up for V2 of the site. We don’t want to give too much away, but we know you’ll be pleased and hope you are just as excited as we are. With that said, we are looking for a…
Oct. 01
ubumm Features SGG!
The study abroad advisors at ubumm.com featured Students Gone Global in a Q & A today. Check it out below! http://ubumm.com/featured-qas/students-gone-global/
Aug. 08
Who Wants To Be A Campus Rep for SGG?!
Students Gone Global is now recruiting Campus Representatives from all universities to promote our blogging network! Campus Reps are responsible for providing the link between their school’s education abroad/international programs office, as well as publicizing SGG to their peers through social media and word of mouth (putting up flyers, attending pre-departure orientation meetings for prospective…
Jul. 27
Yesterday’s Issue
Hello everyone, Yesterday our web server became unresponsive due to high load (we had a significant increase in traffic) and unfortunately the internal monitoring did not pick up the issue properly. We have since corrected the problem and modified the monitoring rules to improve the handling of such incidents. Thank you for your patience during this time!
Jul. 24
Thank you San Diego State!
We would like to personally thank San Diego State University for featuring Students Gone Global on their College of Business study abroad page! Here is the link.
Jul. 02
Thailand!
My name is Dave and I’m one of the guys working behind the scenes on Students Gone Global. I want to thank each and every one of you for sharing your stories and time traveling on our website. It’s very rewarding and gratifying to read all of your blogs because I went through the same process as you…
Jun. 12
New Updates
Hello everyone, We wanted to let all of you know about various updates we implemented to the website yesterday. These include the following bug fixes: Fixing the personal profile section in some users’ blogs where the information was not being displayed (e.g., Sora Hwang and Norma Alicia). The personal profile image wasn’t updating after a…
May. 12
Live Chat – Yay or Nay?
SGG Bloggers/Users: Would you be interested in having us implement a live chat feature like as seen in the header image above? Some of the benefits: Ability to create and join private one-on-one and group chats Ability to chat with international members in your native language You would be able to chat while continuing to…
Apr. 23
Welcome to Students Gone Global!
Welcome everyone! After months of hard work, we are excited to announce the launch of StudentsGoneGlobal.com, the website that will connect study abroad students like no other blogging platform has done before. When we began work on Students Gone Global over a year ago, our vision was to inspire students to travel the world by…
