Let Me Know

If you’ve been to the site recently, you would have noticed a slew of changes taking place to improve the user interface. A better interface implies a better user experience. One of the most challenging decisions we’ve had to make was with regard to the Google Adsense ads which were located on the website. There were a few significant draw backs with using these ads; to put it in simple and remarkably few terms, they didn’t look very pretty. However, considering the ever increasing traffic too the website, they did serve as revenue generators. So the big trade off was: user experience Vs money. We chose to “trade off” money for user experience. Our logic was and remains simple, If we give the best possible service  to the users, they will love it enough to talk about it. To get customers to talk is perhaps the single biggest achievement for any business. Its big because it means a lot more than just satisfied customers, it means publicity, loyalty and a host of other pretty terms. Most importantly, it shows that we care. So, as we bid goodbye to Google Adsense for now, we request you to keep the comments and the feedback coming, because we’re listening and we care.

We are happy to annouce that LetMeKnow now provides SMS alerts. We are using the Google SMS Channel. After testing it for a few days we have found it pretty reliable in alerting the user about the updates on the site. Users are notfiied about any new Opportunity added on the site through out the day.

Click here to subscribe to the SMS Channel.

We had added “Google Friend Connect” gadget on the sidebar and got a really good response in terms of members. We currently have 400+ members connected through Google Friend Connect. We wanted to create a community around LetMeKnow and help visitors participate and connect with others. Developing a Social Networking component for LetMeKnow would lead to a fragmented effort for “connecting” people. What best was to make use of existing Social Networking components provided by Facebook, Google, Disqus among others. Keeping this in mind at first place we integrated Friend Connect and created a community around LetMeKnow. Recently we have integrated full fledged Google Friend Connect with following components-

• Commenting on Each page
• Recommending content to other readers
• Rating and Reviews
• A Social bar at the bottom

The Social bar mainly shows the Members list as well as the recent activity on the site by other members. Also the Feedback page has got a small makeover.

I happened to visit the LetMeKnow blog (http://letmeknow.wordpress.com) while i was looking our for help for my 4th semester project. The blog caught my attention at the first sight and i immediately wrote to the owner (then Nitin Rao, The Founder) that I am interested to join the team. It was in December 2007 and LetMeKnow had one member, the Founder himself. After a few days I got a mail from Nitin asking for details like my interests, why i would like to join and so on. Prior to this i had “0″ knowledge of Blog, Blogging, WordPress. I had heard these terms but wasn’t aware of how they work and what they are After I joined LMK (LetMeKnow)- WordPress, Blog, Blogging, Opportunities- all these were new to me. Also LMK was following a standard for the opportunities to be put up. I joined as a contributor adding posts in the Technical category. LMK blog had a “Ocean Mist” Theme then. Meanwhile we had Prabhu Hari already suggesting events (As he usually does and has been doing). Getting used to the WP (WordPress) interface wasn’t difficult. It has a clean and intuitive interface and the clear instructions from Nitin made my work easier and standardized.

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