Down Time & Our Updated Look
If you’ve visited Woman Tribune within the past two days, you have been greeted with a very ugly, very inconvenient Maintenance Mode page and if you were dying to read Woman Tribune or tried back repeatedly, we do apologize for any inconvenience for this downtime. However, we think it was kind of worth it because these past two days have been very busy and if you’re reading this now, you can see why.
Woman Tribune’s one year blogiversary is coming up in just a little over two months and throughout this past year, we have made quite a few changes, added a lot of new categories and have evolved quite spectacularly, especially the front end. If you’ve been reading this website long enough, you have seen the sporadic and drastic changes that Woman Tribune has made throughout these past 10 months and with this one year milestone upon us, we thought it would be a good time to release a (very) final release of our site design. This was unplanned, of course, but this change will be the last (drastic) site change we make for quite some time, so we hope you like it.
Woman Tribune now features Brian Gardner’s Revolution Lifestyle theme, which has been edited and perfected for Woman Tribune by Holly Ord.
So Woman Tribune is officially open for entertainment and because Holly is relatively jobless and feeling very much like most freelancers out there, expect lots of updates. Don’t forget to tell us what you think of the theme and also forward any ideas you have for Woman Tribune to Holly by emailing her at holly[at]womantribune.com. Seriously, any ideas at all whether it be ideas for articles, more categories you’d like to see covered here, products or books you want us to review or want to know our thoughts on, anything.
Have You Heard about YouData Yet?
We heard about YouData a little over a month ago from the wonderful gals over at kirtsy and not only did we fall in love with it’s mission, we’re benefiting from it and so can you.
Most people who run a website are interesting in monetizing it; people love to get paid for what they love to do and blogging, a passion of hundreds of billions of people around the world, is one of the biggest topics of conversation on the internet today. People get paid to keep their website up and running through ads, sponsorships and even tip jars, but what YouData noticed is that while your attention is being bought all the time, it isn’t being bought from you.
YouData matches people, based on their MeFile profile, with ads for websites that they are genuinely interested in. If you’re sick of being shown ads for websites you have no interest in, like if you can’t cook and suddenly see a website littered with foodie ads, chances are you don’t care and you’re not going to click to go to the website or if you’re in a committed relationship or married and you see a great deal of ads for Match.com (I use that site as an example because their ads are everywhere and just as annoying on every site I see their ads appear on) or some other website in that realm, you’re probably going to keep right on going about your business without a second thought.
What I like about YouData is it is extremely versatile. You get matched up with ads that chances are, you’re going to like, and you can view these ads on either the YouData website, by downloading the application to your desktop so you can view your ads without even having to open your browser, or on your favorite sites, like Woman Tribune.
That’s right, here. If you’ve noticed in our sidebar, we have the YouData application so anyone who is signed up on YouData can log in right from our website and see their ads. You can also click on your ads to get your cash and never leave our website; pretty cool, right? And if you’re not signed up for YouData, you can also sign up via the application in the sidebar.
If you have a website that you would like to monetize, you can also benefit from people checking their ads on your website. To get a YouData application code for your website, all you have to do is go here or email monetize@youdata.com with the following information:
- Blog name (as you would like it to appear in the adget)
- Quick description (for anyone who would like more info on your blog)
- Blog URL (link to your blog)
- PalPal account email (where should we send your money?)
And that’s all there is to it! So I hope everyone out there takes advantage of this great ad network who, instead of paying Google or some other ad network who, let’s face it, have enough money, they want advertisers to buy your attention straight from the source. Have fun!
Woman Tribune has a Brand New Look!
The color scheme, the layout, everywhere you look, Woman Tribune looks a little different! After a few days of diligently working on our new look, we are proud to launch our new look! So what do you think, love it? Hate it? See something a little wonky that we need to fix? Don’t hesitate to contact us with your input and also what you would like to see implemented on Woman Tribune in the future. Use the contact form here to send your emails and you just may see your message in an upcoming edition of You Said It!
What? You Said It? Whatever is that!? Well, You Said It is a new addition to Woman Tribune that we’re over-the-moon happy to announce.
We want you input! Whatever you have to say, we want to hear about it! We are all ears! As a reader of Woman Tribune, you probably have thoughts and opinions about every aspect of the site–The functionality, the look, the posts, and you may even have an idea for a post that you would like to see here or an addition to our network that you would like to see us add. Whatever it is, we want you to send us a message by filling out your name, email and typing your message in the form located in the sidebar to your right. Once a month, we will go through all of the messages you sent us and put together a little segment called You Said It, sharing what you said to us with all of our readers.
What are you waiting for? Start sending those messages!
Woman Tribune’s Magazine Makeover
Woman Tribune was recently made over into what this site’s first aspirations were–A magazine!
Every category is represented, the most recent post from every category is listed under ‘Other Recent Articles.’ You can also see our latest book review and recipe in the sidebar. In addition to our makeover and our ideas on an expansion of the site to let our readers be a bigger part of the site and be a little more hands on as we expand into a community, we have also added a poll for all of our readers to take part in; that being Would you be interested in participating in a monthly book club?
That’s right, one book a month with a private forum for all members to discuss the monthly book in. If you are interested, please vote yes in the poll and also leave a comment here with a valid email address and if we have enough people who want to take part in a book club, I will email you all personally with details on how to sign up and give you access to the forum.
Hope everyone likes the new magazine layout, leave your feedback in the comments!
The Ultimate Blog Party 2008
I was recently told about the perfect place for women bloggers to get together, promote their blogs to a targeted and interested audience and add other sites to their expanding list of daily reads. For one week out of the entire year, 5 Minutes for Mom is hosting the annual Ultimate Blog Party!
From March 7 to March 14, women bloggers can share their websites, discover new ones and win a variety of different prizes. Last year there were nearly 1,000 women participating and since then, the party has only grown. This is most definitely the blogging event of the year for women bloggers.
So head on over and read all about it and I hope to see you there!
Win a Heart-Shaped Loose Diamond
Calling all poets!
I received an email about this a few days ago and I thought that our readers here may be interested in this great opportunity!
A&W Diamonds are holding a Valentine’s Day poetry contest. If you are a poet–whether it be a hobby, profession, or maybe something you have always wanted to try your hand at and never did–if you are the author of the poem and are at least 18 years of age, enter for your chance to win!
The winner of this poetry contest will receive a heart-shaped loose diamond! That is one hell of a prize!
Submissions for the contest will end on February 11, 2008 and the winner will be announced shortly after, so get your submissions in soon!
Woman Tribune: An Online Community for All Women
After an incredible amount of downtime, Woman Tribune has reemerged with a semi-new look, new categories, and very high hopes.
Woman Tribune was built on the idea of having all new, interesting, and exciting points of interest in one, convenient location and we intend to do just that! So check back frequently, we have a lot of new content up our sleeves.
