Firstup’s April 2023 release unlocks stronger governance control to your platform and helps open up publishing flexibility and customization across your teams.

Enhanced Governance and Security with New Activity Feed

Keep an eye on what’s happening across your community with an accurate and expanded activity feed including the ability to filter and download data.

Activity feed provides a transparent view for admins into activities across their entire platform. Quickly surface a feed of information such as campaigns published, branding changed, users updated, and more.

This feature is available for our customers on Advanced Permissions. Available permissions for Activity Feed include:

• Brand Super Admin - access by default
• Access to Activity Feed can be enabled for any custom role (currently only restricted by audience)

Learn more about Activity Feed here!

Catch Employees’ Attention with Updated Author Alias

We know that you can increase engagement by writing communications on behalf of a relevant sender. Our goal with these updates to author aliases is to ensure enterprise-grade governance by allowing you to permit or restrict Studio users to send on behalf of another community user.

Now, you’ll have the ability to author on behalf of yourself, your community, or even Members who are not Studio users.

Learn more about Author Alias here!

Author Alias Assignment

• Author aliases will be available to be assigned to individual users
• Only Brand Super Admins or custom roles with permissions to manage Studio users are able to assign author aliases.
  
• Author aliases will be assigned to users within the Permissions section of the user profile page.

Using an Author Alias

• Author aliases available for selection will be limited to those that are assigned to the user who is creating the campaign
  • Author aliases must be explicitly assigned to a user for that user to be able to select the author alias.
  • A Studio user will be able to utilize the author alias functionality to publish on behalf of another user in the community, including Members in the member experience. This will not allow them any additional permissions in Studio, only the ability to publish on behalf of the assigned user(s).
• When the campaign is published, the selected author alias will be used as the author of the content.

Filtering by Author on Campaigns and Within Calendar

• The Campaigns and Calendar pages will include filter options for author search to allow Studio users to filter by all aliases.
• Users will be able to filter for other Studio users and Members that they published on behalf of.
  • When searching for an author name, results will filter with all content created by that user or on behalf of that user.

Author Privileges for Non-Studio Users

• Users will no longer have to go through the Studio invitation and registration process in order to appear as an author option.
  • The goal is to publish content on behalf of Senior Leadership without them being involved:
    • No requirement to be a user in Studio
• In the member experience, users will be able to click on the profile and view all of the content the user is the author of, even if it was published on their behalf.