Social media platform provider KickApps has partnered with Userplane, the communication platform for online communities, to integrated live chat, instant messaging, and presence functionality to the KickApps Platform. Members of KickApps powered sites can now engage in live text and audio/video conversations with each other.

Under this agreement, KickApps has integrated Userplane Webchat and Userplane Webmessenger as core features of the KickApps Platform, available on a self-service basis. KickApps customers, known as affiliates, can activate the chat and IM functionality by simply selecting an option in the KickApps Affiliate Center, the web-based console for managing KickApps-powered communities. When chat and IM are activated, a “Chat” tab will appear in the default top navigation of a KickApps-powered site and a “Send an instant message” link will appear on all member profile pages if the member is logged into the community. As with all KickApps applications, affiliates are able to customize how chat is deployed by altering their site’s HTML and CSS code, or by using JavaScript.

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