Developing eWrite

Almost 2 weeks ago on the 9^th, eWrite was the focus of the Tuesday Push. I was really looking forward to this push in the days leading up to it. I spent the time improving our site, removing unwanted pages, setting up a new forum, getting new images created for the site and setting up an online store where users can now buy eWrite Lite and eWrite Messenger.

The Tuesday push works on several levels. A dealine is always useful to focus on whats important and in what order. I worked that bit harder to get a few things in place, mainly the online store to sell our apps complete with an easy to follow set up proceedure.

The morning of the Tueday Push I was excited and looking forward to seeing what people would write about eWrite. At the same time I was worried about the content of our site, I know it still isn’t up to scratch to explain our apps very well. In this case, I looked on it as a way to improve, if bloggers commented on the content of the the site, I’d be able to learn from it and change it.

Damien Mulley wrote the first blog post that morning and for a lot of the rest of the day my heart was in my mouth, no other blog posts about eWrite were appearing. I began to worry that no one else would bother writing about us, I doubt I’ve ever used the Google Blog search as much as I did that day

As the day went on though I was very happy to see a few more blogs participate in the Tuesday Push. Google Alerts began to tell me about new blog posts by email. The traffic to the site more than doubled that day and continues even now at a higher average per day.

Traffic to the site was flowing in. Nearly 20 people used the demo of the eWrite Lite CMS on our site that day. I wish I had the demo of the eWrite Messenger email marking software ready in time. I think this might have impressed a couple of people. Every day since, an average of 5 people try out the demo on our site compared to 1 or 2 per week before.

I received a couple of emails from other web developers and graphic designers asking questions about eWrite Lite and how it works with a website. I was especially happy with these emails as Im hoping to work with more and more developers to see if I can encourage them to use eWrite Lite to manage the content of their sites. I want to learn what I can to make it a more useful tool for developers and designers in their own work.

The blogs that wrote about eWrite in the Tuesday Push

http://www.mulley.net/2008/09/09/tuesday-push-9th-september-2008-ewrite-lite/

http://www.keyes.ie/johnnyk/2008/09/18/ewrite-lite/

http://www.niall-larkin.com/blog/2008/09/09/get-yourself-on-techcrunch-or-digg-rewrite-the-web-with-ewrite/

http://www.web2ireland.org/2008/09/09/the-tuesday-push-is-ewrite-lite/

http://www.iarfhlaith.com/2008/09/09/tuesday-push-ewrite-lite/

http://bohanna.typepad.com/pureplay/2008/09/ewrite—2-days.html

http://joedrumgoole.com/blog/2008/09/09/the-tuesday-push-ewrite-lite/

http://www.davidkelly.ie/blog/2008/09/10/ewritehaving-a-tuesday-push/

http://www.bytesurgery.com/blog/2008/09/09/pushing-ewrite-lite-pushing-ireland/

http://eirepreneur.blogs.com/eirepreneur/2008/09/a-day-late-but.html

(I haven’t missed anyone have I ? )

Thank you very very much to all, Thank for you for taking the time to look at eWrite and writing about it. I’ve learned a lot from the posts and comments and taking on board all the advise and suggestions.

Getting your application or service mentioned in the Tuesday Push is definitely worthwhile, do it!

Tags: damien mulley, david kely, Google Alerts, Google Blog Search, iarfhlaith kelly, james corbett, joe drumgoole, john keyes, keith bohanna, miall larkin, robin blandford, web2ireland

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