As part of our efforts to improve user engagement on Suite101.com (and soon Suite101.de, .net, and .fr) we’ve started working with a new partner, Outbrain.

Within the next few weeks, we’re moving away from writer subdomains. This is a crucial step in providing a more friendly and easier to understand URL structure, more importantly it aligns us with our future platform goals. 

In the past four-and-three-quarters months, we've been quietly gaining momentum on our way to a comprehensive mid-year revamp – a total teardown/rebuild of Suite101 from the bedrock up. Just as importantly, we've also restructured the company and assembled a talented, energetic team.

I wanted to take a moment now, relatively calm little Wednesday, to introduce the group at equilibrium and show something of how we fit together.

As one of many changes coming down the pipeline aimed to ease Suite101's transition into something markedly different (and better), we're eliminating the titles of "Feature Writer" and "Topic Editor" in the near future. It's something that would have happened regardless with the launch of the new site, but we want our community to have a clean break from the hierarchy of the current Suite101.

Hi All,

For those who haven't spotted it yet, we've added the aptly named " Suggestion Box" category to the forums. This is a place to comment on what you like, what you miss, or what you think could makes things better. If you come across anything on the site you feel could be improved,  just start up a thread and let us know!  We're looking forward to hearing from you. 

Thanks for reading!  

Stephanie  

Starting March 27, the community site will be open to all Suite101 writers, making it the single home base for us all during this period of transition. For the next few months, this is where we'll do our talking, testing, and where you'll find the community blog, member dashboards, forums, and all your links to the far reaches of the Suite world.

Integration will be seamless. If you're logged in to the old Suite101 site, you'll be logged in here (and vice versa). If you visit My Suite, you will be redirected to your dashboard here.

The time has come - on March 23rd at 12pm PST we will be turning off access to Suite101 Stats.  

If you want to back up your article page views we have a csv download available on the stats home page.  Simply log into stats, do your search for the period of data you want, then click the "Download Data" link in the top right hand corner (see screenshot here).

Hi All, 

And now to plug some fun-fantastic ways we can connect off Suite101! I've been given the keys to a few groups that were getting a little dusty and could use some more voices and faces! Take a look and see if anything catches your eye. 

Meetup.com

Meetup is a great way to organize get-togethers and any group member can start an event. We've just announced a Suite101 meetup in Vancouver! Take a look -- Lisa and I are getting a little lonely over there. 

It's come time to celebrate and thank our fearless moderator, Victoria Nicks. As we move everyone over to the community site, forum moderation will no longer be put on the shoulders of only one or two community members. There is more on this to come over the next week. For now, let's keep the focus on Vicki. 

Hi, it’s Brad again.  In follow up to my first blog post, here’s a quick (well, what was to be quick) recap of my recent New York ad-venture.

It was a whirlwind trip – but very productive.  Fortunately I got some sleep on the plane ride over, and was lucky that the hotel gave me an early check-in so I could grab an hour of shut-eye in advance of my meetings.  That said – coffee was definitely my friend that day…

Day 1

Coffees 1+2

On the back of Wikileaks extraordinary leaked emails this past weekend, I thought it would be interesting to leak some internal info out to our community and report back on a recent activity. This being the progress specific to a  very controversial project… AKA: “The Purge”. 

I've posted this a few times in random responses in forums, but the questions still seem to be coming up fairly regularly so thought I'd put it in a central spot for all to see.

Ch-ch-ch-changes! Suite101 is going through a period of transition and transformation. You may have noticed " We're Changing" tabs sticking out on the right-hand side of Suite101 and the Community Site.

So it’s my first Suite101 blog entry…not so scary…

For those who haven’t seen my recently updated bio on the Suite101 ‘Meet the team’ page: Hi - I’m Brad, the Suite101 sales and marketing guy.  I’m the one responsible for squeezing the most revenue from each Suite101 pageview, while still trying to preserve a pleasant reader experience…at least, as far as advertising is concerned.