We would like to welcome the Logan Cobras AFC to ThatsMyTeam.  The Logan Cobras are the junior Australian Rules Football Club in Logan Shire who cater for a large and growing area of Southern Queensland.

The committee are excited to be using ThatsMyTeam to

• improve their website
• increase communication between club and members
• sharing the website load with multi user login

We look forward to providing Logan with all the technical advise they require and supporting their website improvements long into the future.

ThatsMyTeam now gives all clubs the ability to use Flickr photo galleries.  This is a great way to store you photos online.  Now you can insert individual photos or full albums in your posts easily.

Some of the benefits for using Flickr Photo Galleries:

• Display your Flickr photo sets as albums on your site
• Your photos can be marked ‘private’ and still be used
• Adds a new Photos tab for you to easily add Flickr photos to any blog post
• Complete control over the look and feel
• Search engine friendly URLs
• The new Photos tab allows you to filter your photos by tags
• You can display your recent photos into your sidebar
• Do more with your photos.  Make calendars, team books, posters and more

For clubs involved that need help using the Flickr Photo Galleries contact support.

For clubs that are not involved and are missing out, get in touch with ThatsMyTeam.

cforms has been added to provide all websites with advanced contact forms. cforms allows you to deploy multiple contact forms on your website using the latest technology including Ajax.

Some of the benefits of using these forms on your website are:

• Easy to use for novices
• Database based tracking of submitted data
• SPAM protection
• Localization support
• File attachments
• Fully integrated with TinyMCE (Html Editor)
• Clean separation of CSS styling and form code

See an example of a Contact Form

We have added event calendar to provide your members with timed events. This allows you to add the time for an event and display it in Upcoming Events and on your calendar page. Your calendar page can show events for unlimited number of days into the future.

Display upcoming events in a dynamic calendar, on a listings page, or as a list in the sidebar.
Your members can subscribe to the calendar from iCal (OSX) or Sunbird, view example of a calendar page.

Today we have added the feature of emailing your users. This means you can send newsletters to users of your blog, by there role. This is a cost effective way to communicate with your users and you can choose to send different newsletters to editors, authors, subscribers or admin users on your website.

Keep you emails short to your users and encourage them to use your website to interact with your club through comments, polls, ratings or other features. For clubs already involved who would like to start sending their newsletters, contact support.

We have added a feature that allows you to use google maps with in a post or on a page. You maps can be saved for repeat use and you can add location markers with extra information to provide your visitors. These maps are great for using on game previews or providing a location of an event.

See example of the google maps in action.

We have added the plugin to use the FeedBurner Feeds instead of the normal RSS feeds. The benefits for adding FeedBurner are:

• Easier interface to subscribe to your news feeds
• Users can subscribe to your feeds to their email account
• Make it easier than ever for readers to subscribe to your feed.
• You can access stats to the number of people subscribed to your feeds
• Feed formats can be automatically changed on the fly
• Increased promotion of your news feeds to the world

If you would like to start using FeedBurner with your website send through a support request here. See and example of a feedburner feed.

And our clubs on That’s My Team can not either. We have installed Akismet a wordpress plugin to eliminate spam from all our customers blogs. After a lot of research we have decided that this was by the best plugin to use to limit spammers (who are not welcome) from our sites.

Happy blogging and keep working on creating your community without the spam.

Thanks to the guys at Study Abroad Offers for their fantastic help with this decision.

A polling feature has been added for all clubs to gather information from your members and visitors. Ask your members the questions through your website and help your club move forward through the voice of your members, players and parents.

An example poll is running on the right hand side at Jimboomba AFL Club.

Now all posts have a post ratings system to allow your members and visitors to rate posts. The system is interactive for users allowing them to vote on posts with out refreshing the screen.

See a rating example