It's starting to become a problem when I'm passing through the pages of Pollis trying to find loose ends and can't think of any from what I see. Most would see this as a job coming to a close however I see it as a new frontier where all we need now is users. Yikes. There's one major thing to complete and then for all visual purposes the first draft is done. That major thing being the formatting of the blog updates on the user pages. The rest of the work is for SEO and addressing users comments as they come in which can all be done behind the scenes.
There's no official launch point yet, just a few messages and tweets being sent out by me to bring in a couple of closer friends that blog. I figure we should try and get a small base of material before we send out the mass email to the bloggers Jacob has compiled through Alexa. com. He's spent quite a few hours reading various blogs that scored within our reach on Alexa.com. For those that don't know alexa bases a rank on # of unique hits per given time frame as well as # of external sites linking in. Example being the top 3 sites are Google, Facebook & Youtube. The idea is to find bloggers that are similar to us right now that have a small reach into their social circles and a few random search engine surfers then invite them to join the site, bringing them into a new pool of readers. Hopefully this will work in two ways, most importantly getting the blogs more page hits and readers as well as giving Pollis some wings to broaden its horizons. Although it's not official, I'm hoping that the launch date is November 4th/5th when I return from vacation.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Welcome To The Pollis!
Greetings! So there's a multitude of reasons why you've happened upon my blog, hopefully it's because you've found a Pollis business card under the keyboard of a W.E.B. DuBois commons computer (or found us on a search engine). If this is the case you likely passed through the site which has been under coding development for several months and originally thought of almost two years ago. As of right now The Pollis is still under development (and missing a few
small features) so if you see any bugs, please feel free to write me a
comment on the blog or shoot me an email.
The basic premise of the site is to offer a free platform to search for blogs you may be interested in. Why not just use Google or Bing? Where's the feedback? When you search on Google or Bing there is limited feedback on how good the content is. To summarize, there are no report cards or consumer reports of various blogs. With the blogosphere's input directly to my business partner or myself (and hopefully an increasing product support team), we hope to offer a continually updated database of blogs. We're inviting all blogosphere users and putting the power in their hands to rate and rank various blogs. The idea behind it is while time passes, some blogs become outdated or abandoned leaving room for newer ones to become a better read. With the inputs from users (5 star rating system and a personal "top 10 blogs") mixed with some other factors we hope to give the reader base a better heads up before spending a few minutes reading something they weren't all that interested in.
Going forward The Pollis is looking for a range of blogs to sign up and add to the blogosphere's social network. With the blogs comes readers and hopefully other blogs since we are giving out free exposure (example being the slide show on the front page of Pollis). If you've come this far from the reaches of the internet, feel free to add a blog to the site or just sign up as a reader. To add a blog it only takes a quick copy and paste of a code into your existing blog site which you can remove once you've confirmed. This process takes a minute at most (during development my count is up near 100 sign ups just for my own blog)
All are welcome! And if you have any questions, suggestions or issues by all means leave myself or Jacob a message. I look forward to reading randomly discovered new blogs that join The Pollis.
-Justin
The basic premise of the site is to offer a free platform to search for blogs you may be interested in. Why not just use Google or Bing? Where's the feedback? When you search on Google or Bing there is limited feedback on how good the content is. To summarize, there are no report cards or consumer reports of various blogs. With the blogosphere's input directly to my business partner or myself (and hopefully an increasing product support team), we hope to offer a continually updated database of blogs. We're inviting all blogosphere users and putting the power in their hands to rate and rank various blogs. The idea behind it is while time passes, some blogs become outdated or abandoned leaving room for newer ones to become a better read. With the inputs from users (5 star rating system and a personal "top 10 blogs") mixed with some other factors we hope to give the reader base a better heads up before spending a few minutes reading something they weren't all that interested in.
Going forward The Pollis is looking for a range of blogs to sign up and add to the blogosphere's social network. With the blogs comes readers and hopefully other blogs since we are giving out free exposure (example being the slide show on the front page of Pollis). If you've come this far from the reaches of the internet, feel free to add a blog to the site or just sign up as a reader. To add a blog it only takes a quick copy and paste of a code into your existing blog site which you can remove once you've confirmed. This process takes a minute at most (during development my count is up near 100 sign ups just for my own blog)
All are welcome! And if you have any questions, suggestions or issues by all means leave myself or Jacob a message. I look forward to reading randomly discovered new blogs that join The Pollis.
-Justin
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