Hey Gang!<\/p>\n
Welcome to your new home.\u00a0 After a year of blogging, it was about time for an upgrade and oil change.\u00a0 And while the blog might not look very different from the outside, the engine is completely rebuilt and filled with gas!<\/p>\n
We have a bunch of exciting new changes rolling out within the next couple months for the blog but first let’s look at a couple of important changes that have already happened.<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 First and foremost, how you write your articles for the internal blog and external blog has changed slightly…\u00a0 At the very top of your screen you will now see a drop down menu with two choices.<\/p>\n
A. EWM Realtors, this is the external facing blog.\u00a0 When you are writing an article that you want published on the external blog, you need to make sure that EWM Realtors is displayed at the top of the screen.<\/p>\n
B. Internal Blog, this is the internal blog.\u00a0 When you are writing an article that you would like published on the internal blog, then you need to make sure that Internal Blog is what is showing on the top.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
You can very easily jump back and forth between to the two blogs by simply holding your mouse over the menu and selecting which blog you would like to write for. Why the change?\u00a0 Well by splitting up the internal blog and external blog, it allows us to do some very cool things.\u00a0 Right now you are actually blogging within a much bigger community than just EWM.\u00a0 Let’s say at some point in the future, several of you join different social blogging networks like a Women Counsel of Realtors,\u00a0 or a GRI blog.\u00a0 You would not have to have two separate logins but rather just use the drop down menu at the top to switch between blogs.\u00a0 Or let’s say we have an API that would join this blog with Active Rain…\u00a0 So you log in to ewmrealtors.com and can blog straight on to Active Rain… We also now have much better email alerts and rss feeds set up for the internal blog that were lacking on the other site.<\/p>\n
2. Speed.\u00a0 We are now super cached.\u00a0 While at first it might not look like much of a difference to you, visitors coming from the search engines will see the site load about 5 to 10 times faster than it used to.\u00a0 The reason is that we are storing HTML versions of common database queries so the site doesn’t have to grab information from the database everytime a page loads.\u00a0 Why will it not seem that much faster to you?\u00a0 Well it won’t always grab the HTML version of the site when you are actively logged in to the site and actively commenting on the site.\u00a0 If you saw the HTML version of the page, you would never see any new comments that you left.\u00a0 So it should still be a bit faster for you guys, simply because we have dramatically reduced the amount of database queries, the real speed will be seen by the consumer.<\/p>\n
3. Scalability.\u00a0 The engine of this blog is built on the WordPress platform.\u00a0 WordPress releases new versions and updates to their blogging platform about once a quarter.\u00a0 When this blog was first set up a year ago, it was so customized that it became hard to upgrade the blog on a regular basis.\u00a0 This was a very important aspect that needed to be changed.\u00a0 The site is now very scalable and you will continue to see new changes and developments every couple months keeping the software up to date and very much competitive.\u00a0 We will actually be running another update within the next month to catch up with the latest release and continue to stay relevant. So over the past year, you guys haven’t seen any new features or gizmos.\u00a0 Now we will have regular upgrades about once a quarter.<\/p>\n
There are many other changes also in the works like more customized Agent pages within the blog, video tutorials scattered throughout the backend, lively forums to participate in, blogging chat rooms, and much more.<\/p>\n
So until then, BLOG AWAY!!!!<\/p>\n
Tomato Gang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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