Archive for February, 2008

New features in CommunityOfSweden.com

I want to mention three updates on CommunityOfSweden.com.
You’ll already be aware of these updates if you are an active member.

Search

In january, two months after the launch, we finally added Search. You can now search amongst stories, members, forum posts and photos. The search automatically searches through all these types by default but you can also limit your search to just photos, for example, if you know that’s what you are interested in.
Discuss Search here in the forum.

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Share

We recently added the feature “Share” which makes it possible for you to send the web adress(URL) of the current page you’re on to one or more email addresses to your friends.
The share button can be found on member pages, photos, stories and forum posts.
Discuss Share here in the forum.

screenshot share

Newsletter

We’re now conducting an online survey on CommunityOfSweden.com. It asks 10 questions about how the perfect community newsletter should be. If you want a CommunityOfSweden.com newsletter and you want to make yourself heard then here is your chance. Go to any My Page on CommunityOfSweden.com and the survey should start.
Discuss the Newsletter here in the forum.

Thanks!
See you around in CommunityOfSweden.com

Tommy Sollén, Community Manager

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VisitSweden redesigns it’s website visitsweden.com

2 months after its beta launch, Community of Sweden, surpassed 1000 members. Next step is how we let visitors from the official swedish website – visitsweden.com – get travel tips from our community members. And how to we trigger potential visitors to Sweden to share their travel tips on the Community.

That is one big issue in the development of visitsweden.com. Another important issue is how we take our Google Maps application one step further and let visitors make online bookings by navigating the map.
A third issue is how do we implement the new site based on Content Management System Epi Server 5.0, a .NET platform.

Let me also introduce myself: I, Margareta Björnberg, work as senior webmaster and project manager of the development and re-launch of visitsweden.com. You’ll soon hear more.

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Weekly poll feb 25th - CommunityOfSweden.com

Here’s the results from the latest weekly poll at CommunityOfSweden.com

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The first Weekly Poll results - CommunityOfSweden.com

I’ll be publishing the results from the CommunityOfSweden.com Weekly Polls from now on.
Join the CommunityOfSweden.com you too and make yourself heard! :)

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2-which-of-swedens-big-six-do-you-like-the-most.jpg

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4-where-in-sweden-would-you-most-like-to-go.jpg

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3 months with CommunityOfSweden.com

Hi!
Here’s a brief summary of the status of CommunityOfSweden.com which launched on nov 1:st 2007, three months ago.

We started rolling out marketing activities in december and we’re still going down the list of activities.

CommunityOfSweden.com is going well! We’ve already raised our goals for 2008 and we’ve got several exciting new features that will be released during the year.




Some numbers:

  • Members: ~1500
  • Photos: ~2100
  • The quality of the photos has exceeded my wildest expectations.
    Click here to take a look for yourself.

  • Stories: 192
  • There are some amazingly exciting and inspirational stories here which are fascinating to read.

Currently most visits come USA, Sweden, Germany, UK and Holland.
Bonus info: the most active members are the Italians :)

A couple of quotes that really made my day:

“I’m having a lot of fun in the community and I hope to visit Sweden for real in the near future. The community is really helping me to plan my visit.”

- Barry, UK.

“My neighbour and I were discussing yesterday, over the garden fence, what it is about your site that is so welcoming compared to others. It really is. Perhaps it is just because it is Swedish - clean, tidy, bright and positive. Cheers.”

- Brian, UK

“I am so greatful that there is www.communityofsweden.com because its a great help for me especially im new here and ill be arriving in goteborg on the 22nd and i feel so excited now!! trevligh att traffas!!”

- Cherrie Mendoza, Philippines

Thank you everybody that helps to make CommunityOfSweden.com into such an amazing place! :)
Keep it up and spread the word!

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