Company News

October 2009

Are you getting the most from your EditMe site?
Friday, October 30, 2009
You may have noticed a few changes around here during the past few weeks. With an increased focus on communication with EditMe customers, we've stepped on the gas pedal by creating more opportunities for customers to get the most from their EditMe site. Here's a few things you can do to make sure you don't miss a beat.

EditMe's Kiva Lending Program Makes 300th Loan
Friday, October 16, 2009
EditMe made its 300th Kiva loan today as part of our ongoing lending program. Since October 2007, EditMe has made between two and four new Kiva loans per week, and has recycled the repaid loans (now totaling 187) back into additional loans. Deferred revenue from customers' 6 and 12 month prepayments help to fund these loans. Additionally, EditMe donates 10% of each loan directly to Kiva to cover their operating expenses.

2009 Customer Survey Results
Friday, October 9, 2009
Thanks to all of the customers who responded to the Customer Survey over the past few weeks. Twelve percent of EditMe customers responded. While this may not seem like a representative sample, the customers who read the blog and/or monthly newsletter and are engaged enough to respond to a brief survey are most important to us.

September 2009

2009 Customer Survey & $100 Gift Card Giveaway
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Give us a minute of your time and become eligible to win a $100 American Express Gift Card.

August 2009

EditMe Interviewed on "Two Geeks and a Girl" Podcast
Friday, August 7, 2009
I was interviewed for the most recent Two Geeks and a Girl podcast: Edit It Yourself! Content Management Systems For The Web. I talked with the group about EditMe as a web content management solution.

March 2009

Announcement: Backup File Name Change
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Backup file names have changed from using a .zip extension to .tar.gz extension. This happened for about half of all sites a few months ago, but has now taken effect for all EditMe sites. If you have an automated script that downloads the backup of your site, you'll need to update it to use the new file name. Contact support if you have any questions about this change.

February 2009

Update: EditMe Kiva Lending Program
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
EditMe made its 200th Kiva loan today as part of our ongoing lending program. Since October 2007, EditMe has made between two and four new Kiva loans per week, and has recycled the repaid loans (now totaling 77) back into additional loans. Deferred revenue from customers' 6 and 12 month prepayments help to fund these loans. Additionally, EditMe donates 10% of each loan to Kiva for operating expenses.

Announcing: Edit Your Web, The Blog
Monday, February 16, 2009
I have created a new blog at EditYourWeb.com as a place to post general wiki-related thoughts, news and ideas. In the past I've posted those here. Though I will reference Edit Your Web posts here when I think my customers would be interested, this will be a more strictly product-focused blog going forward.

November 2008

Update: EditMe Kiva Lending Program
Friday, November 14, 2008
EditMe made its 160th Kiva loan today as part of our ongoing lending program. Since October 2007, EditMe has made between two and four new Kiva loans per week, and has recycled the 50+ loans that have been paid back into additional loans. Deferred revenue from customer's 6 and 12 month prepayments help to fund these loans, and EditMe donates 10% of each loan to Kiva for operating expenses.

August 2008

Edit Me Wiki For Non Geeks
Monday, August 18, 2008
Brendon Chase of Builder AU, a web site "by developers for developers," recently interviewed me about EditMe. From the post: "Put simply, wikis have been just too nerdy for the average punter for it to catch on in most businesses. Enter EditMe, a wiki CMS solution that you could safely give to non-geeks. While easy for end-users, the hosted solution has a powerful back-end that developers can use to customise installs via an API and allowing Server-side JavaScript."

Announcing: Wiki Forums
Monday, August 4, 2008
On Friday the Questions and Suggestions pages at the Customer Support Wiki were replaced with Forums. These pages prompted discussion among wiki users and relied upon EditMe's comment mechanism for a rolling dialog. While this worked, it forced every message into a single thread. The Forums now allow each topic to have a list of replies. In addition, each topic becomes a new page on the wiki that is included in the site search.

July 2008

EditMe is a Wiki with Teeth
Friday, July 25, 2008
Boston-area interactive marketing blogger Matthew Mamet recently featured EditMe in a blog post about wikis. He touches on the unique power of EditMe's JavaScript API...

May 2008

Update: EditMe Kiva Lending Program
Monday, May 19, 2008
EditMe made its 101st Kiva loan today as part of our ongoing lending program. Since October 2007, EditMe has made at least two new Kiva loans per week, and has recycled the 22 loans that have been paid back into additional loans. Deferred revenue from customer's 6 and 12 month prepayments help to fund these loans, and EditMe donates 10% of each loan made to Kiva for operational expenses.

Announcements: Customer Wiki Updates
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Over the past few weeks you may have noticed the consolidation of the help.editme.com and wiki.editme.com sites. The content has been reorganized and optimized for search to help customers find answers to common questions quickly.

March 2008

Update: EditMe Kiva Lending Program
Friday, March 14, 2008
EditMe's Kiva Lending Program made its 75th loan today! Here is an update on the program with details on the entrepreneur recipient of the 75th loan.

December 2007

Update: EditMe Kiva Lending Program
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
As promised in the original post about EditMe's Kiva lending program, here is an update. Today marks EditMe's 50th Kiva loan.

November 2007

Announcing EditMe's Affiliate Program
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
EditMe announces a new Affiliate Marketing Program that provides generous referral and recurring income opportunities to participants. Affiliates earn 100% commission on the first month's fee, 20% recurring revenue for up to five sites within each referred account, and 10% commission on custom development services billed to referred accounts within the first year.

October 2007

Announcing EditMe's Kiva Lending Program
Friday, October 26, 2007
Kiva.org is a web site that allows you to lend money to specific entrepreneurs in the developing world, empowering them to lift themselves out of poverty. Today EditMe announced an initiative to make Kiva.org loans from 6 and 12 month customer payments.

July 2007

Staff Lounge: Wikis For Dummies
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
EditMe is featured in the new book Wikis for Dummies from the #1 best selling computer book series. I spoke with the author, Dan Woods, several months ago while he was writing the book, and am glad to finally see the results in print. This is an excellent resource for enthusiastic newcomers to the wiki phenomenon.