Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Chaggle Featured in St Louis Globe-Democrat

Well Chaggle was in attendance at the recent announcement of the St Louis Regional Business Plan Competition organized St Louis Economic Council and Edward Jones. The 1st prize is $50K and 2nd and 3rd are $30 and $20K respectively, plus all of them come with a ton of hours from local law firms and top, local PR companies.

We are really looking forward to this event, it should be fun and we've already gotten to meet some great folks from all around St Louis.

So, while we were at the event, Jordan Lanham of St Louis' the online newspaper, the St Louis Globe-Democrat, was good enough to interview us and she wrote up a fantastic story:

St. Louis entrepreneurs compete for prize money


Thanks Jordan, and thanks to St Louis Economic Council and Edward Jones for putting out this Business Plan competition for local St Louis businesses. That was a great idea!

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Chaggle Links Your Tweets

We are very happy to let everyone know that we have successfully integrated Twitter!

So now you can automatically configure you Chaggle account to post your Chaggle Shout Outs to Twitter. And what is even cooler is that each Tweet will be automatically tagged with a small hyperlink to the webpage you were viewing when you posted the message.

So you no longer have to go through the pain of copying and pasting links into your tweets...Chaggle will do that for you! And don't worry about going over the 141 characters, Chaggle will break your message into multiple messages if you go over the limit.

We are very interested in getting feedback on this new feature so all comments are welcome.

Clayton

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Chaggle's New Look

As many of you have noticed, we recently gave the Chaggle webpage a new look. So I wanted to walk though a couple of the updates really quick so that everyone knows what was added.

The first thing we did was to streamline the sign-up process. We had a few users who were getting lost while they were trying to get all signed up, so we made it easier for everyone. We removed a step or two and we bulked up the help that you get while your working through that process.

Also, we were lucky enough to work with Jenn Mathews (SEO expert of Classmates.com fame) and Jenn has made sure that the new Chaggle site was built to be as searchable as possible. The goal here is to get as many new Chagglers as we can to come join those of you who are already out there. We wante to send out a BIG thanks to Jenn for all of her help...and we look forward to her helping us out alot more in the future.

There are a ton of other upgrades that came with the website re-vamp that I'll talk about in my next few postings, but that's plenty for now.

Thanks again to all of the Chaggler's out there and we'll be chatting with you soon.

Laters,

Clayton