World Entertainment News Network (WENN) to Syndicate Allvoices Celbrity Pics

“Allvoices’ contributor content provides us with a depth of material and access to entertainment photos and videos taken by people with new perspectives on what they’re seeing, as it happens. The result is we’re able to provide our clients with the most compelling shots, videos and in-demand content first, before anyone else. And that’s the name of our game.”

We’ve Gone Mobile! – New Features & Site Improvements

We made changes to the site this week to bring you more mobility, flexibility, and enhancements that optimize your reports for search engines and provide a richer experience for your readers. We truly appreciate the great feedback we receive from our user community and the Allvoices team responds by delivering new features that help make your experiences on Allvoices most productive and enjoyable and enable you to expand your visibility and global reach.

Here are just a few highlights of the exciting new improvements we’ve just made:

• Mobile: We have optimized the way you can access Allvoices from your mobile devices, simplifying your ability to navigate by top stories and subject categories and making your news easy to read while you’re on the go.
• Suggested Tags: Now when you Report Your News, the Allvoices system will “automagically” suggest relevant keyword tags that you can select to better increase the chances of your reports coming up in search results on the AV site and on Google and other search engines.
• Want to add a live Twitter stream to your report?  No problem!  You can now add a live stream of related tweets by using the “Add Live Twitter Stream” button on your report page.  Simply add terms related to your report and we will show you and your readers the latest Tweets containing that term in real-time.
• Save Reports as Drafts: Our users asked for this feature and its here! Now when you Report Your News you can choose to save your report as a draft by using the “Save as Draft” button. Return to the Drafts tab in your user profile page at any time to complete and post the reports you previously saved as drafts.

You are always welcomed to contact us at support@allvoices.com with your great suggestions and you can look forward to seeing more and more site improvements ahead!

Thanks,

Sanjay Sood
CTO, Allvoices

Allvoices Updates: We’ve been listening!

The development team at Allvoices has been very busy making lots of changes to the site that many of you have already noticed.  We are constantly taking your awesome feedback and rolling the best ideas back into the main site. Our goal is be the people’s news network, so please keep sending us your suggestions on how we can improve the Allvoices experience.

We’ve pushed lots of new features to the site, but here are highlights of some of the exciting new improvements:

• A refresh of our main landing page that makes finding the more relevant news even easier. The layout is simplified and we are highlighting more of your great content for the world to see!
• Allvoices Widgets: Now you can take your news with you! We’ve developed a widget platform that makes it easy for you to add your AV content to any site! Check out the “widget” section under “edit profile” to get started
• New categories: You can now contribute original content in a “Causes” and “Humanitarian” category!
• You can now easily print reports on Allvoices by using the print icon at the bottom of the report page
• More control over your report page:  Don’t want to show related news stories? No problem! You can now easily toggle which types of content are shown on your report page

These are just a few of the changes in recent weeks. Stay tuned for more updates!

Thanks,

Sanjay Sood
CTO, Allvoices

Is Your Post a $100,000 Hit?

Allvoices citizen reporters have the ability to make money from posting breakaway, original reports that will be a Hit and generate a lot of buzz and traffic. The new Hit Incentive only applies to an individual post or report and is only valid for a period of 15 days from the original posting date.

A quick summary of the Hit incentive program is:

Page views	Incentive payment
100,000 plus (within 15 days of posting)	$250
1 Million plus (within 15 days of posting)	$5,000
10 Million plus (within 15 days of posting)	$100,000

 

For more details, please visit http://www.allvoices.com/incentive

The main reason we are offering the Hits program is that we realize that our citizen reporter, you, produce content that generates a lot of buzz, but may not get rewarded for it. For example, the picture of a plane crashing into the Hudson River that had a link posted on Twitter got millions and millions of views, but the poster did not make any money. The women who posted the image said that if she knew of a site that would pay money for her photo, she would have posted it on that site instead.

We at Allvoices want such content from our citizen reporters and we want you to make money if you do post such breakaway content.

Thank you for your support, for evangelizing the site, and for making Allvoices the fastest growing people-generated news network in the world!

Note: There are no changes to the existing Build Your Allvoices Brand Incentive Program, which continues to offer our community opportunities to earn cash rewards for contributing on a consistent basis.

The Allvoices Team

 

Allvoices Community Conduct

We are a diverse global community here at Allvoices, with contributors from 167 countries, millions and millions of viewers, and thousands of landing pages—one for every country and every city in this world with a population of 500 or more.

Each of you is a unique individual, one of nearly seven billion distinct “voices” on our planet. Allvoices has built a worldwide open-media platform that bridges geographies and cultures, politics and beliefs, countries and borders, and welcomes you to report your news, share your knowledge and style and individual perspectives, and engage with other Allvoices users by commenting on their reports, rating them up or down, becoming fans, and inviting friends to join in the conversation.

Allvoices is an unedited and unbiased and unfiltered site that is free to join and free to use and enjoy. We have no editors on staff and only a small team to support this vibrant burgeoning global community, to enforce Allvoices’ Terms of Use, and help foster a climate of mutual respect and collegiality.

Recently, Allvoices has noticed user comments and articles where the passion and enthusiasm of a few users has turned to personal attacks and inflammatory remarks against other individuals or groups. And there are reports that the Allvoices’ private messaging system has been used inappropriately. While differences of opinion are expected and lively discourse is healthy, abusive or disruptive behavior is unacceptable and may violate Allvoices’ Terms of Use and “common sense” Community Conduct guidelines.

Community Conduct

Allvoices is a global community site and we want to encourage discussion between people from around the globe, so we have established community conduct rules that all Allvoices users agree to when they register for an account on Allvoices:

• Do not use the Allvoices website to defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights of others
• Do not post obscene, pornographic, sexually explicit or otherwise illegal content
• Do not post any inappropriate, profane, infringing, obscene, indecent unlawful material
• Do not use hate speech which contains slurs or the malicious use of stereotypes intended to attack of demean a particular gender, sexual orientation, race, religion or nationality
• Respect copyright regulations
• Do not conduct or promote any illegal activities
• Do not upload content, report, distribute or print anything that may be harmful to minors
• Do not use the personal messaging system to send unsolicited email advertisements or spam

Allvoices users should familiarize themselves with Allvoices’ Terms of Use at the following link in Allvoices Help section: http://www.allvoices.com/terms.

Report Abuse

If you are certain that an Allvoices user has violated Allvoices’ Terms of Use, you can flag the comment or report as abuse or flag a private message as spam (http://www.allvoices.com/help/abuse). However, be discriminating and use common sense when flagging abuse, as many abuse complaints turn out to be just differences of opinion, do not violate Allvoices’ Terms of Use, and no action can be taken.

Collegiality

Allvoices is a talented community and there will always be differences of opinion, but disruptive or abusive behavior cannot be tolerated. Allvoices encourages everyone to treat each other with respect, direct talents and energies in positive ways, approach disagreements with compassion and self-control, and understand and follow Allvoices’ Terms of Use and Community Conduct guidelines.

New Features at Allvoices

The team here pushed an update to the main site earlier today.

You may notice a design change to the main report page that shows related news stories, images, blogs, and videos.  One of the features of the Allvoices’ News System is the ability to automatically aggregate related content to provide a 360-degree view of the report.

We want you, the contributor, to have as much context surrounding your report as possible.  You can control what content is shown on your report by toggling the hide/show buttons on each content box.  If you see content that’s unrelated, you can delete individual items or the entire section. It’s that easy!

Lots of our contributors have asked us how they can spread the word about Allvoices to their friends and family.  Until today, the only way to invite your friends (and get points for doing so) was through your e-mail address book—which was a bummer for users who did not have an account with a supported e-mail provider.  To make it easier, we have provided you your own personal invitation link which can be found under “Edit Profile”  ->  “Invite Friends”.  When your friends register with that link, you will get points that you can redeem for cash!

Lots of other updates went live today that will help make your Allvoices experience more enjoyable and much faster.

As always, let us know how we are doing by dropping us a line at support@allvoices.com.

Thanks,

Sanjay Sood
CTO
Allvoices, Inc.

Sorry for all the E-mails!

Allvoices sent an e-mail this evening to all registered Allvoices users, advising of a routine update to Allvoices’ Terms of Use.

Unfortunately, multiple emails were inadvertently sent to everyone and Allvoices is truly sorry for all the e-mails. We identified and corrected the problem and are sorry for the inconvenience.
Sincerest apologies,

The Allvoices Team

Allvoices Site Update and New Features

The team here at Allvoices pushed a major update to our servers earlier this week.  We’ve introduced more capacity for our ever-increasing global audience as well as some cool new features and incentives aimed at growing our core community.  Among the recent changes are:

• The Allvoices Points Program that lets you earn cash and rewards for being part of the Allvoices community.  Take a look at http://www.allvoices.com/help/points for more information.

• Do you think you are an expert?  If so, apply to be a Category Expert!  If approved, you will receive full Report Credibility for all your reports within a certain subject area.  Check out http://www.allvoices.com/help/report_credibilty for details and instructions on how to apply.

• Related Tweets:  When you create a report on Allvoices, we will automatically find Tweets that are related to your content and put them right on your report page!

• We’ve added more servers to make sure your Allvoices experience is as smooth as possible.  Please forgive some of the recent, short outages.   We are working as hard as we can to keep up with the demand!

As always, let us know what you think about these changes or anything else that’s on your mind.

Thanks,

Sanjay Sood
CTO
Allvoices, Inc.

Exciting New Allvoices Features Released!

Although I haven’t posted development updates recently, the Allvoices’ team has been hard at work improving performance and adding features that our amazing community has been asking for.  Here are just a few of the new features rolled out over the past few weeks:

• New Categories:  We’ve added a few more categories (Green, Health, and Travel), based on your requests
• Tweet Widget:  You’ll notice that many of our pages have a real-time stream of Tweets related to the theme of the page!
• Related Tags:  You will now see related tags to help you find more interesting new content
• Re-hauled Notification:  You now have more control over what type of notification emails Allvoices sends to you.  Check out your notification settings under “Edit profile”.
• Better Spam Detection:  We have implemented a new spam filter to prevent spam comments from being posted on the site
• Report Credibility:  We’ve improved the algorithm and added better messaging. Visit http://www.allvoices.com/help/report_credibilty for more information!
• Better Performance:  The entire team has been working tirelessly to bring you the best and fastest citizen reporting experience on the Web.
• Stay Logged in:  Now you can stay logged into Allvoices.  Simply check “Keep me logged in” and you are all set!

We are working on another major release that will go out before the month’s end.  It will have lots of cool new features aimed at fostering our growing global community.

As always, feel free to drop us an e-mail (support@allvoices.com) and let us know what you think!

Thank you,

Sanjay Sood
CTO
Allvoices, Inc.

Allvoices Performance Issue Resolved

Some of you may have experienced some slow performance over the past week or so.  We’ve tracked down the issue and resolved it this morning.  The site is much happier and your experience will be much improved.  With over 2.7M visitors last month, we’re working hard to make sure that the site is fast and responsive for our growing global audience.

Feel free to drop us an email (support@allvoices.com) to let us know how things are working out for you.

The Allvoices Team