PostRank

The aforementioned problems with the widget have now been fixed, so the “Powered by PostRank” graphic should be appearing again, and the links from PostRank scores are working as well.

However, for those who’ve gone looking for the widget to add it to their sites, it is not currently available. (Widgets already installed still work.) The reason for this is because the website update included a bunch of changes and improvements to how we do analysis, but including a full widget update at the same time would have required too great an increase in project scope.

So for now the widget still uses the old analysis, and widget PostRank scores don’t quite match website PostRank scores.

What’re we planning on doing about it? Glad you asked. We will be re-launching the widget. Currently ETA I’ve been given is at least a couple of weeks. We’ll be updating the analysis, and have been discussing various “refresh” features to add to it as well.

So this is a good time to get your requests in for features and functionality you’d like to see in the widget. We want it to be as useful and engaging as possible, plus we like to reward contributors with schwag.

Stay tuned! (When we re-launch the widget, we will, of course, announce it with great fanfare.)

A suggestion we received, and which we think is a great idea (thanks, Brian!) is to extend our tutorial series. We’ve made videos on PostRank’s basic features, but the suggestion was to create targeted tutorials, like “better reputation management with PostRank”, for example.

Really, we’d like to answer, in a few scenarios, “But what can PostRank do for me?” We hear from social media and marketing folks a lot, not surprisingly, but would love to hear from folks in other domains as well. What do you do? How have you been using PostRank functionality? What challenges do you wish you could solve (and hope PostRank can help)?

So what are your requests? What topics, industries, job functions, or interests would you like to apply PostRank to to save time and increase your productivity? We’re all ears!

Can’t promise to be able to match the creative genius of Common Craft, but I’ll do my best.

Our sites are currently down while we get ready to launch some very exciting new stuff. We’ll be back up again in no time.

Stay tuned!

I have a guest post up at 47hats.com!

Striking a balance of user needs in technology development.

Read! Comment! Argue with me! I already know what everyone around here thinks, so I yearn for fresh, crisp new opinions and ideas.

Joseph’s interview with Ilya on the ProPR site is live: AideRSS’ Ilya Grigorik Explains PostRank

We’ve discovered an additional benefit of the interviews — their function as practice for explaining what we do. (Kinda like reading something you’ve written out loud to determine if it makes any sense outside of your own head.)

Soon we’ll be smooth like news anchors!