A few odd issues have arisen in the hive today. One affecting the load times of certain pages, specifically the homepage. I was able to find out part of the problem was the way RSS feeds were being pulled in. So for the time being a few things are disabled as I work out why it happened in the first place.

There is also a few other issues to attend to, but nothing critical.

If you see anything, it would be very helpful to shoot me an email - Thanks!

On a lighter note, its cinco de mayo! Celebracion! I missed blogging all through April, sorry about that! More tech updates coming…

Now, how does this affect you - the brand, marketer, or whatever you may be? GO TO WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE! It make sense right? You want to gain or keep more customers, and social networking reaches out to an active audience that has a higher chance of seeing you than other traditional methods. Creating a Facebook Page [such as fb.buzzflikr.com] taps into the huge audience (175 million active users) that you can constantly reach out to. On the other side, Twitter [tweet.buzzflikr.com] is the micro-blogging revolution that allows ‘followers’ to subscribe to your updates… which turns into X amount of viewers instantaneously.

What I’m trying to say here in so few words is that social networking is a huge new resource to tap into. Twitter and Facebook are just two examples with incredible growth and opportunity right now, but there is a plethora of ways to ‘connect’ in this exciting ‘web 2.0.’ I’ll go over more in future posts.

Don’t know what’s going on here? Contact Buzzflikr and we can help take your PR efforts to the next level. Or just dive right in and get started! Here’s some info on the incredibly helpful Wikipedia: Facebook, Twitter.

Dan @ Buzzflikr
Twitter | Facebook

We are looking for graphic designers who would like to provide mockups of a new version of Buzzflikr.com. Specifically we would like a layered Photoshop file that can be turned over to a coder. [If you code templates for CMS's then by all means there is a bonus for that]

We are prepared to work with you on any method of ‘payment,’ whether it be monetary or otherwise. We are a team of professionals in the fashion, PR, and technical industries and have alot to offer if you are looking for something other than cash.

If you are interested please contact me, Daniel Scally at daniel AT buzzflikr.com

Thanks!

• Google - “buzzflikr”
  Results: 1,430
  (up 719 from 711)
• Google Page Rank
  PR Results: 3/10
  (no change)
• Alexa Ranking - buzzflikr.com
  Results: 2,967,590
  (up 1,536,916 from 3,666,956)
• November Buzzflikr.com stats
  Unique Visitors: 959 Page Views: 4,311
  (up from 284 unique visitors, 1,263 page views)
  

As you can see we have some growth and action under our heels. We have seen exciting growth all across the board - a doubling in google search results, our Alexa ranking up over 1.5 million, and triple the amount of unique visitors!

November was a great month with Siana on board and we’re still picking up the pace! I will be making a dedicated effort to more blog posting because there is lots always going on in the background.

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving holiday… now on to Christmas and New Year!

I wanted to bring a few things to your attention.

• The Stingers menu at the top has been modified so you can view Style Stingers (our public monthly newsletter) and Bee Stings (our weekly Colonist newsletter) separately.
• It is no easier to sign up for Style Stingers - sign up here - http://www.buzzflikr.com/subscribe
• Some links that were broken are now fixed
• Added the initial version of our Frequently Asked Questions, which I will be updating more later.
• Check out some of our feedback in the Buzzflikr Praise section in Our Buzz

More to come… and I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving!

On the technical side of things, I would like to improve in a variety of areas, yet this is a great start. We’re running Wordpress to keep everything easy and in order. There are many tools out there to utilize in the blogosphere, and I’ll get us on board as soon as possible. The most valuable part of a weblog is always its content, and CC will be blogging like mad now that she’s all setup.

Make sure to head over to SeeByCC.com to check it out.

Buzzflikr email is now back up and running.

Thank you for your patience.

Try it out for yourself… Buzzflikr.com home page

Catch ya on the flipside!

-Dan

SOME NOTES –

• our weblog design is not finished, give me a day or two and I’ll have everything looking the same.
• feed back is always appreciated - support@buzzflikr.com
• spread the word!