Six Months of Reader Appreciation
The Reader Appreciation Project was started six months ago. What started as a simple place-holder for Reader Appreciation Week has turned into an authoritative source on reader appreciation concepts.
The Reader Appreciation Project couldn’t have gone anywhere without our readers, so a big thank you to all of the readers who have visited, commented, linked to and/or downloaded our stuff. It is my hope that we can continue to pump out thoughtful and entertaining articles, and also provide other reader appreciation resources including the very popular Ajax Edit Comments.
New RA Project Badge: The ‘Readers First’ Award
Some RA Project readers have requested that a badge be made that can be included on a site to show support for the Reader Appreciation Project. Although we hope to eventually release a universal badge representing the project, the first badge is going to be something that is awarded to select websites who place readers first.
I’ll be announcing the first websites to receive the award shortly. To view the badge and the award, please check out the Readers First page. If you have a website you feel deserves the award or would like to nominate someone else’s, please use our contact form.
The badge text was inspired by one of the RA Project readers, Vivien (from Inspiration Bit). The badge was designed by Brett Terpstra of Circle Six Design.
New Interviews
Bes posted the first Reader Appreciation Project interview this past week. The topic touched on a very sensitive issue where an Adult MySpace owner was leaving legitimate and thoughtful comments on a blog, but admin were deleting them without notice. I found the interview very insightful view of how a reader is treated when he/she has a controversial website. Please check out the full interview.
More interviews are planned, and it is our intention with the interviews to provide different views of reader appreciation from a multitude of sources. Any feedback on the interviews is much appreciated.
Calling on Guest Contributors
If you would like to support the Reader Appreciation Project by providing a guest post, please feel free to get ahold of us by our contact form. This blog is yours too, and readers have a voice here. As far as incentives, you’ll get a link back, a spot in our sidebar, and a dedicated author page where readers can look up your details.
If you are interested, please send an e-mail via our contact form. We’d love to hear from you.
Posting Schedule
The posting schedule is still Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays. To stay up to speed on the project, please subscribe. If you’d like to contribute a guest post or perhaps join us as an author, please contact us and review our contribution policy.
Posts/Comment/Feed Stats
There are currently 174 posts, and 1,718 comments. As of today, we have 84 feed subscribers.
Plugin Stats
- WP Ajax Edit Comments currently has 9,056 downloads (6,519 on WordPress extend).
- WP Do Nothing currently has 113 downloads.
- WP Categories and Posts currently has 645 downloads.
- WP From the Vault currently has 4 downloads.
Technorati Stats
RA Project is currently ranked 10,207 with 1,088 incoming links. Our blog authority is 375.
If you feel so obliged, please add RA Project to your Technorati favorites.
Conclusion
The Reader Appreciation Project is still growing. We’re not growing quite as fast as some other sites out there, but the reader appreciation concept is firmly taking hold as more and more bloggers talk about it.
Thank you for supporting us for these six months. It’s been a fun journey and I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as I have.
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