Blogging Zoom UpDate

Vic — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:56:05 +0000

Folks let me start by saying it has been a bit overwhelming. It is amazing what things we take for granted but the fact is that we are working extremely hard to get everything put in it’s place. But the fact is that Court and me are just 2 and our dev team is not working on this as they are still working on the upgrades.

So please we need your support. Please verify all of your submissions that their are no weird characters in the process of restoring the data some of it got a bit crazy so we have some submissions with weird characters. If you find one of your submissions with problems please contact me via IM at Blogging Zoom to get it fixed.

I upgraded the submission form to have WYSIWYG functionality but this is a huge step which I debated if to give the option. The main problem with this is the famous COPY PASTE some people do. If they do the copy paste they will copy html from their site and inserted on the submission causing problems to the hole page. Please if you see a submission that is copy paste reported to me via the IM at Blogging Zoom we need to take a hold on this situation, unfortunately some people are still doing it and it is hurting the whole site those that can not comply will be banned.

Now please we would love to hear your thoughts on the design if you liked it or now. Also please give us your thoughts on the new ZOOMING button if you liked it and it fits well with your themes color we tried to go with colors that would blend with every theme it is also a png clear background so even on dark color themes it should blend.

Now this type of post will be starting to be made on the BZ blog unfortunately Court and me for time reasons have been using our sites to give BZ news this will be stopped as we need all the information at the hands of every BZ user especially the new one.

Now let me give you a few of the new features so you know what is coming. You will be able to go to your profile and click on the option to receive email notifications when some one makes a comment on your submission. You will have a character counter right under the submission box.

We are still debating if incorporating a chat room and I also have the option of adding a real time IM using Google Gtalk here is the link so you can test it out and tell me if this is something you would like to keep, also please tell me if you would find an Ajax chat room a benefit to the community.

This part is the one I know you will like besides helping us with your thoughts on the design and new Zoom button, please tell us what features you would like to see at Blogging Zoom we are open to anything that is of benefit.

Again we would like to say thank you to all of you that have supported it Blogging Zoom especially on this last few days which have been a total nightmare.

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Stumblers Finally Smart Readers

Vic — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:25:00 +0000

I have to admit I did not have much experience with StumbleUpon until Blogging Zoom. But wow looking at the stats it seems that Blogging Zoom and StumbleUpon was a match made in heaven. As most of you know by now I am all about stats and results. So while crunching the numbers for Blogging Zoom it was a real eye opener what was StumbleUpon and what was not.

To keep this simple StumbleUpon users are very, very smart people. They tend to StumbleUpon only good quality content and there is no doubt that they are not the Digg.com crowd. They seem to be very very picky about the material they like and they are very unselfish. if they like your material they will take the time to review it.

What this translates to you the blogger. Easy, you really , really want Stumblers as part of your core reader base. Yes you might get 800 quick StumbleUpon hits and when you look at the stats most left the page in seconds but tell you what you really do not need 800 the way the StumbleUpon system is set-up all you need is a super stumbler and your site just got taken to that next level. The huge amount of Stumblers that exit quickly from a website has to do directly with how picky they are about the material they read, trust me folks this is good, a reader who is hard to earn will become a loyal fan and will also be the first to spread your message.

As most of you know I am a genuine Google guy and most of the time it is easy to break down services like Blog Rush and the likes but with StumbleUpon I just can not do that. I believe that what makes StumbleUpon such a strong marketing force is not there system I really think it has to do with the intelligent user base they have acquired.

I feel blessed to have an opportunity to look at the stats of a site like Blogging Zoom with the huge traffic volume it has it makes it easy to look at a week worth of stats and know what works and what does not.

So this is what I have to say to you my dear blogger friends. If you are a StumbleUpon user I take my hat of to you. If you are a blogger with StumbleUpon users as part of your reader base feel blessed and proud my friend because Stumblers are real smart readers.

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