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Forum Maintenance Tonight
We will be bringing down the Pligg forums for a short time (a few hours) to perform maintenance tasks on the forum and make some upgrades. After this is complete some of the former forum feature may disappear due to incompatibilities with the upgrade. Please contact us or leave a comment if you discover a bug on the forums tomorrow morning EST. I expect there to be a small number of bugs that will pop up, but we should gain some features and performance enhancements from the upgrade. Things should be back to normal by tomorrow morning.
20% OFF September Pligg Pro Orders
For the rest of the month we are providing a coupon code to receive 20% off Pligg Pro orders of $20 or more. By ordering through Pligg.com and signing up for the Pligg Pro newsletter you are eligible to receive future discounts on new modules and templates down the road at even better deals than what we offer the general public. By ordering through the Pligg Pro shop you are both buying products directly from the people who built Pligg and supporting Pligg because 25% of each sale is donated to Pligg.
Pligg Pro Shop
Coupon Code: SeptemberSale08
Expires: October 1, 2008
The coupon code is limited to 50 sales, so act fast before coupon uses or time run out.
Pligg Featured Advertisers
A few days ago I updated OpenX, the script that we use on Pligg.com to manage advertisements. Formerly (last week) it was known as OpenAds, and a less than a year ago it was known as phpAdsNew. Today after checking the stats to make sure that everything was tracking correctly I decided to crunch some quick numbers to figure out how much the featured sites are paying per click on average. Based on the last three days of statistics, it turns out that monthly advertisers are paying about 0.095 cents per click, and half year advertisers are paying around 0.069 cents per click. I bring up these statistics because we’d love to earn some more advertisers. Our rates currently are $2.20/day for 6 month advertisers and $3/day for 1 month advertisers. Each advertiser receives an account to check their stats online along with weekly emails that include daily details for each days statistics.
Planned Server Downtime this Evening
Our hosting company has notified us that they will need to take down many servers this evening (March 5, 2008) around 12:00 a.m. EST in order to perform “mandatory emergency power maintenance” for a period that should last about a half hour. They also advise that we power down our servers prior to this to safely preserve our data, so we may be shutting down our server for up to an hour. This post is to serve as a quick heads up for anyone who needs their daily Pligg fix who might frequent the forum late at night like I do. I will update this post after the server comes back online to confirm that everything went smoothly.
EDIT:
Turns out that our hosting company doesn’t need to take us off-line. We will not be turning off this evening as anticipated earlier.
Pligg Job Board
Today we’ve added a new section to the site to help connect job providers with Pligg developers. I have had dozens of requests for custom Pligg work, but unfortunately I am unable to take on any of the projects because I have a full schedule. I also see new threads popping up in the forum with similar proposals for freelance work and I thought that there should be a better way. The new job board provides a very easy way for recruiting candidates for your Pligg project and targets users who have a very specific expertise and interest. Rather than submitting a job to another site where you might have to pay a listing fee and are attracting users who might not have any experience with Pligg, listing a job on Pligg Jobs is a simple two step process.
- Step 1: Submit a job proposal with details about what you are looking for.
- Step 2: Confirm the listing via email (only the first time you make a listing) and receive a second link to edit or disable your job listing.
For job providers it really couldn’t be any easier finding the right person to take on the job. Once you have set up your listing you will receive an email with each applicant’s information and resume that you can use to select the right candidate. And if you later decide to remove your listing for whatever reason, it is just a “Deactivate it” link away. You can use the job board to hire a freelancer for a one-item contract job for something like integration with another CMS, or you can even use the board to find a full-time or part-time employee for longer projects.
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Job applicants have it even easier than the providers, because applying for a job is only one click away. When viewing a page that interests you click on the “Apply now” button and fill in the information it asks for and press submit. Getting a job as a freelancer has never been this easy before has it? To see an explanation of how Pligg Jobs work check out the video above, or go try it out for yourself.