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We have now moved the new theme into production on our main site indiaspecial.net. Please use the new Reader and let us know your feedback.

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Sid Features Interface

We are working seriously on developing a more user friendly interface.  Not only that with our regional sites coming up, this interface will seamlessly blend into the other sites.

We are looking to roll this out by 1st week of March 2009.

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Sid Features Interface

The India Special RSS Feed, now includes images. Which means you can now use your favorite RSS readers to read the excerpt and also view the associated image. Makes our site more accessible and readable!

You can subscribe to our feed @ http://indiaspecial.net/feed

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Sid Features RSS

We are working on adding an “Editor’s Pick” section to the Indiaspecial site. We have worked out the method to put this in place, we are currently building prototypes and testing them. We will be soon rolling this out!

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Sid Features Features

We have now included the Stats of Last 30 days as a link in the Archive section. Please visit archives to have a look at our latest readership statistics and where various posts and their respective authors stand!

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Sid Features Metrics

We have decided to keep Disqus comment system as the standard for all blogs of India Special.

Disqus is now enabled on blog.indiaspecial.net and blogtips.indiaspecial.net. We will be enabling these on our forthcoming blogs as well.

If you wish to subscribe to the latest comments, please visit http://indiaspecial.disqus.com/comments.rss

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Sid Features Comments

Quite a few authors have asked us for RSS Feeds at Author Level. We are glad to let you know that we have now enabled this feature.

Please visit the author page at http://indiaspecial.net/author/<Authorname> for instance http://indiaspecial.net/author/kandamangalam/ . As soon as you visit this, you will be able to see a link for “RSS feed for this Section”

You can subscribe to this link or directly visit http://indiaspecial.net/author/<authorname>/feed for instance http://indiaspecial.net/author/kandamangalam/feed.

Hope you find it useful.

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Sid Features RSS

After integrating our comments system with Disqus, we have now included a widget on the page where most recent comments will show up. Yet another way to engage our users.

As always keep your suggestions flowing.

- Team India Special

Sid Features Comments

Hello All,

A quick update on another development that is in progress. We are planning to add page views on each post. These will quickly help you get a view of how many times the posts have been read.

When you view archives either by date or by author, you can quickly see the number of times the posts have been viewed.

For users, this gives an indication of how popular the post is and for authors how their posts are being read. For now you can view these in the archives pages, in a few days these will start showing up on the home page.

- Team India Special

Sid Features Metrics, Page Views

“If you can’t measure, you can’t manage”, say management gurus. While we have been measuring various metrics about India Special, we thought it might be useful to make a few relevant ones visible to the writers.

We have created a page for you to check the following stats. Click here to view them.

• Posts in Last Month
• Popular Authors of Month (by post views)
• Most Popular Posts of Month (by post views)
• Active Authors of Month (by number of posts)

We have used our content platform’s internal reporting and accuracy is as good as it is provided by the platform. As these metrics are private, this link will not be published on the portal. Please bookmark this link for future use.

Have a look and track your progress, we hope that you will find these useful. As always, please tell us about any ideas you think will improve India Special.

-Team India Special

Sid Features Metrics