http://www.editme.com/OfficialBlog The official blog for EditMe, the easy wiki service. en-us16 editme.com http://www.editme.com/files/OfficialBlog/100.gif http://www.editme.com/OfficialBlog 35 100 http://www.editme.com/InTheNewsHSCJacksonville The Human Services Council website for Jacksonville, Florida was recently featured in a The Florida Times-Union story titled City Issues: Seeing the Human Side. Fri, 09 May 2008 08:00:00 -0500 http://www.editme.com/InTheNewsHSCJacksonville http://www.editme.com/WikiSiteUpdates 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. Tue, 06 May 2008 14:00:00 -0500 http://www.editme.com/WikiSiteUpdates http://www.editme.com/Release34APIChanges The latest release included many API updates that weren't detailed in the original announcement. New additions include access to page and attachment versions, access to site-level and user-level change histories, more event implementations, support for multiple event handler scripts, DOCTYPE tag support, and the ability to get and set page-level security settings. Thu, 01 May 2008 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.editme.com/Release34APIChanges http://www.editme.com/SearchTips3 This is the last of a three part series on getting your EditMe site ranked well in the search engines. The first post discussed keyword selection and the second covered content optimization. What's left? Your link strategy. This post talks about what a link strategy is and offers tips for building and maintaining yours. Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:00:00 -0500 http://www.editme.com/SearchTips3 http://www.editme.com/Release34 Over the weekend we updated EditMe with a new feature called Modules. Similar to Skins, modules provide a way to package a set of pages and attachments for one-click installation into a site. While Skins change the look and feel of a site, modules provide new functionality. The release also includes many fixes, small enhancements and API updates. Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.editme.com/Release34 http://www.editme.com/SearchTips2 Earlier this week I posted part one of a three part series on optimizing your EditMe site for search engines. This second installment covers content optimization, including page names, keyword usage and linking. Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:00:00 -0500 http://www.editme.com/SearchTips2 http://www.editme.com/SearchTips1 Many customers ask what they can do to maximize their site's placement in the search engines. This topic is commonly called SEO (search engine optimization) in the industry, and there is no shortage of opinions and advice out there. In fact, there is a highly competitive market of consulting companies dedicated to the pursuit of getting sites on the first page of search results. This is the first of a three-part post outlining a simple three-step search engine optimization process that can be implemented within your EditMe site (or any other site, for that matter). No expensive consulting fees required. Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:00:00 -0500 http://www.editme.com/SearchTips1 http://www.editme.com/SeedsOfCompassion The Seeds of Compassion conference being held this week in Seattle is using EditMe to host a wiki for the event participants. The conference is "a 5-day gathering to engage the hearts and minds of our community by highlighting the vision, science, and programs of early social, emotional, and cognitive learning." His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama will be participating at the event both as a speaker and panelist with leading educators, researchers and policy makers. Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds will also be there to perform. The conference was met with an overwhelming response and, after selling all available tickets, is now extending its reach with broadcasts and web feeds. Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:00:00 -0500 http://www.editme.com/SeedsOfCompassion http://www.editme.com/CaseStudyFNHR Our latest case study highlights a customer that embarked on a significant custom development project with EditMe. This site uses government data about nursing homes as the starting point for a wiki-based nursing home reports web site. The site allows visitors - including nursing home operators, patients and family members - to register on the site and update nursing home reports with photos, comments and other information. The custom development piece included importing the nursing home data, generating the profiles and providing a custom editing screen that prompts the user for specific profile information. The sheer breadth of data on this site is impressive. If you live in the U.S., chances are this site has a list of nursing homes in your home town. And with well over 15,000 pages, this site now takes the first place for biggest EditMe site. Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:00:00 -0500 http://www.editme.com/CaseStudyFNHR http://www.editme.com/PlanForAfton TwinCities.com has highlighted the EditMe site planforafton.editme.com in an article released yesterday. The site was built to collect community input on the Afton Comprehensive Plan - a document outlining a vision and strategy for the Minnesota suburb by Community Growth Institute. Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:00:00 -0500 http://www.editme.com/PlanForAfton