Edit Your Web: The EditMe Blog

It's a Mass Innovation Party, and EditMe will bring the cake!

Thursday, March 18, 2010

April 14th marks the 1 year anniversary of MassInno. If we're one of the top four vote-getters, we'll bring cake!

Find your Trail with GORP and EditMe

Friday, March 5, 2010

Great Outdoors Recreation Pages turned to EditMe to build their Trail Finder - a robust, searchable database of hiking and biking trails throughout the U.S. and Canada that is managed by the GORP community.

Minute Video: Managing Links in EditMe

Thursday, March 4, 2010

This quick video shows how to insert and edit links within EditMe's browser-based editor. It shows how to link to other pages, pages that don't exist, and to anchor locations within a page.

Video of the "Google is your Storefront" presentation

Monday, February 15, 2010

Here is the video of my "Google is your Storefront" talk given in Acton, MA earlier this month. The talk is for very small business owners and discusses why a web site is their single most important marketing tool.

Venture Funding as a Competitive Disadvantage

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

A friend pointed me to an article on the CrowdVine blog responding to the post-mortem on the demise of EventVue. Tony makes a number of good points that echo a lot of my own feelings on the self-inflicted do-or-die pattern of funding and failure seen in so many web software businesses.

Google is your Storefront - Presentation

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

The presentation for my "Google is your Storefront" talk this morning in Acton, MA is now available on Slideshare and is embedded here. Video of the talk is being edited and will be available here soon.

Ways to Wiki: Employee Onboarding

Monday, February 8, 2010

An employee's first day is one of the few she will always remember about her job with your company. The first day provides a number of opportunities that, if squandered, can be difficult to recoup.

Product Update: Photo Gallery 1.2

Thursday, February 4, 2010

The Photo Gallery module has been updated to version 1.2. A new (and much prettier) image viewer component replaces the older one to fix many cross-browser formatting issues. The new viewer also uses more of the available screen space to view larger images. You can install this version right over your existing version to update. Enjoy!

Featured Site: Hellogramming

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Here's a great example of a customer who jumped in and did some nice customization of their EditMe design to match an existing site in need of EditMe's content management convenience.

Top Tweets from @EditMe - January 2010

Saturday, January 30, 2010

The following are links of interest to customers from EditMe's Twitter feed that flew out during November. Follow @EditMe and/or become a fan of EditMe's Facebook page to stay in the loop.

Prevalence of Online vs. Offline Marketing Response

Friday, January 29, 2010

Yesterday's post talks about how many people are using the Internet to find local products and services vs. traditional methods like phone books. I knew I'd read a statistic on this somewhere and asked my friend Matthew Mamet if he knew where I might have seen it. Though it's a different source, this video pretty much sums it up. You probably already know this, but seeing it this way hits home.

Google is your Storefront: How to get your local business found. (Sneak preview)

Thursday, January 28, 2010

This post is an overview of a talk I'll be giving for a small business forum at Enterprise Bank in Acton, MA on February 9th. Check back here soon for information on how to register for this event. The following is an outline - I'll post the full presentation and expand this post with additional detail after the event.

Is your business really a startup?

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Ever since the dot com bubble a decade a go, Internet software companies have been referred to rather glamorously as "startups" without much regard for what that means.

EditMe's Kiva Lending Program Makes 350th Loan

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

EditMe made its 350th Kiva loan recently as part of our ongoing lending program (this post is actually a little late, and the current number is at 369). Since October 2007, EditMe has made between two and four new Kiva loans per week, and has recycled the repaid loans (now totaling 242) back into additional loans. Deferred revenue from customers' 6 and 12 month prepayments help to fund these loans.

EditMe Helps Users Float Helium’s New Take on Publishing

Monday, January 25, 2010

Helium.com, the next-generation publishing service, uses EditMe to host, manage and gather input on their online help documentation. Read how EditMe helps Helium educate their users and speed up their help content publishing process.

Three Online Image Tools to Crop and Resize

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Uploading 5MB photos to your EditMe site and resizing in the editor makes your site sluggish for visitors. It's better to resize and/or crop these images before uploading them. Here are three quick, easy and free tools to resize and crop images online.

Help Plan EditMe's Development Schedule: The Feedback Tab

Thursday, January 7, 2010

You may have noticed the "feedback" tab added to this site, the support wiki and the account manager. This is a service called UserVoice that is like the Suggestions forum on the support wiki, but much more powerful.

Featured Site: Blue Hills Sports & Spine Rehabilitation

Thursday, January 7, 2010

EditMe worked with a hand-picked team of web professionals to integrate professionally crafted design and content into EditMe's easy to use content management platform.

1 Minute Video: Creating and Editing Pages

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Here is a quick video showing the page editing and page creation experience in EditMe. This is the first in a new video series that will cover editing, attachments, comments and other basic editing features of EditMe.

Ways to Wiki: Project Management

Monday, January 4, 2010

Traditional project management tools, while serving their highly focused task well, leave open an enormous gap of need: an information repository that supports many-to-many communication. Consider some of the ways wikis can be applied to the task of getting a project done.