Official Scoutle Blog

Today is a special Scoutle day. First of all, Scoutle has been online for over 8 months but also today web-log.nl (largest blogprovider in The Netherlands) now fully supports Scoutle by having developed a so-called ‘Scoutle-BlogToy’ for their users.

It may not be a surprise that we are very proud. Not only will it be a lot easier for web-log.nl users to add a Scoutle Widget to their blogs, but it also helps us promote our service in the country where it all started.

So, not only a special day.. but actually a fantastic day!

Today, November 8th, Scoutle celebrates its 6 months anniversary. In these 6 months we welcomed thousands of users and many new and useful features were added. The new verison of Scoutle, September 18th, is a great success and we thank you for all the great feedback we recieved.

We celebrate this anniversary by launching a new and far more intelligent widget, called Dynamic. This new widget is actually a small version of your personal Scoutle blog profile. Also, in this new widget we allow your visitors to navigate directly to other blogs, bypassing the Scoutle profiles.
Of course this will drive less traffic to the Scoutle website but we are more interested in helping you, our users, to get more visitors. Of course we hope you will help us and the Scoutle community out by writing/blogging about Scoutle and invite all your friends to join as well. This will help you get more traffic as well because the more people/Scouts can find your blog, the more visitors you can welcome.

We would like to recommend all our users to replace your current stage with the new Dynamic widget. The Google Gadget and other plugins are ready.

Coming weeks we will launch new services and we STRONGLY reccomend you to submit your RSS Feeds inside Scoutle or you may miss some features and traffic!

Today, June 8th, Scoutle has been online for one month. One month ago, I didn’t know how to get started. I hoped to have 2000 active users by August 8 but had no idea how I was going to get to this amount. I figured I might just had to email bloggers, like personal spamming, but I started with some posts on blogger forums. What happened can be read in previous posts.

For now, I am very happy with the result of one month. A lot of stress, a lot of opinions, hundreds of new users and a lot of press attention. More than expected. I do however know that now is the time to hurry. Current users will probably expect a lot of things to improve and if I don’t install new features, they might even just leave Scoutle again. Even though there’s nothing to loose staying in. What I need now is a community adopting Scoutle and I need to find a way to reach people that are not up-to-date on the latest Internet trends. You don’t know about Scoutle if the news doesn’t reach you.

I hope I can find less Internet related press attention. In magazines or local papers and sports clubs for instance. I also want to contact university magazines but it takes a lot of time.

Should I focus on interviews, which is more personal, or should I go for the “Scoutle explanation” stories?

Anyway, I will now focus more on non-English natives. The small group of Japanese users are meeting each other all the time now. But as long as Scoutle has not been translated into Japanese, only those who understand English can use Scoutle. But where to get the money to translate the site in Japanese? I also think about German, French, Spanish, Portugues, Chinese…

But well, in one month a lot has been reached. Hopefully, I can write even better stories in a post next month!