We're happy to announce several new Beta features for Neighborlogs that we believe will make your local news and information sites even more important parts of your communities.

• Site features control in Admin
  In your site's Admin, you will now find a Site Features section (under Site Appearance). You can toggle on/off Neighborlogs features using this new control panel.
• Classifieds
  Some of you have had these for awhile -- the rest of you, welcome to the free community classified advertising game. You can see how they work on my site: http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/classifieds Look for a new section in your Admin to create the Classified Ad Categories.
  
• Forums
  Your Neighborlogs site can now have communty message boards. Example: http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/forums To create your Forums categories, create a Forums section in your Admin's Categories management section and the add child categories.
  
• Aggregation
  This one is powerful and totally Beta! Check it out. Like the other new features, you'll need to turn it on with your new Site Features Control. Once you've enabled, you can manage the system with Admin > Aggregation. There, you can add any RSS feed to your site to create curated feed pages about your community. Here's an example from my site: http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/news/v=links All the aggregated posts can be managed just like any other post on your site -- you an even promote them to your homepage. Try it out!
  
• Twitter Integration
  Use Neighborlogs to automatically Tweet when you post a new article. Under Admin, General Preferences.
• Post notifications
  Receive an e-mail note whenever somebody adds a new post to your site. Under Admin, General Preferences.

Thanks for being part of Neighborlogs. Hope you enjoy these new features and put them to use bringing truly local news and information to your community.