Allvoices Release Update

On Thursday, April 16^th, our development team deployed a minor release to the Allvoices site.  This release contained several minor design updates/fixes.  The main focus of this release was to build the system infrastructure for our exciting new incentive program that will be launched in May 2009.

We are working hard on building the new incentive program from the ground up and are adding new layers for rewarding our users for their contributions.  As always, let us know if you have any questions, issue or feedback.  Email us at support@allvoices.com.

Thank you,
Sanjay Sood
CTO
Allvoices, Inc.

Allvoices Site Updates

The Allvoices development team has been working hard to improve the site, performance and experience for our users.  With great feedback from our community, we are constantly releasing new and improved features.  Over 2 million visitors came to our site in March.
 
We are making sure we can handle all the traffic from across the globe.   We recently moved our data center to a bigger and better facility and have made huge strides in improving performance.  We released a new set of updates yesterday.  There were lots of ‘under the hood’ improvements and some more that you will be see while browsing around the site.  Some of the major changes you will see include:

• 2 new categories for News:  ’Your Story’ (stories about your life) and ‘Odd’ (unusual stories that don’t fit any other category)
• A streamlined registration and login flow
• An updated and re-designed Help/FAQ (http://www.allvoices.com/help)

I will be posting here regularly to keep you all informed of the technical growth of Allvoices.  Feel free to contact me (sanjay@allvoices.com) or our support team (support@allvoices.com) with any questions, comments, or suggestions about Allvoices.

Sanjay Sood
CTO
Allvoices, Inc.

Allvoices Extends Incentive Program

Allvoices is extending the Excellence in Citizen Media Initiative to April 15, 2009.  A new and even better program will be launched after the end date of the current program so there will continue to be opportunities for users to earn cash rewards for contributing!

Below are reminders and a summary of the current incentive program (www.allvoices.com/incentive):

• Allvoices awards $100 for every 10K accumulated pageviews (not per report). There is no report selection process.
• The max you can earn is $10K.
• Follow the “How To Get Paid” instructions when you reach your first 10K milestone (tax form only needs to be submitted once).
• Check out the “How To Guide” is at http://www.allvoices.com/incentive/how-to.
• Once we receive your tax form, we validate your pageviews. We don’t pay for copyright infringement – see our terms). Then we process your payment. We pay via check only, and Int’l participants should allow at least 30 days to receive a check after they’ve sent the tax form and reached a milestone.

Check out the tips for submitting reports on Allvoices at http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2324258-25-tips-to-report-your-news-on-allvoices.  More pageviews can be achieved by submitting a report on Allvoices and then promoting the link/URL to your report on other sites (e.g. Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Twitter).