Thie blog has moved.. so long.. and thanks for all the fish!

Conflict Gateway Blog's last Blogger post!!

Due to the release of version 3.0 of the Conflict Gateway Website, this blog is now being integrated into the main site, instead of relying on a third party host!

We will keep this blog of posterity! But in the meantime you can catch the new blog at..

http://www.conflictgateway.com/blog/

Thanks to blogger.com and all involved!!

Sebastian

Updates 25/09/08

www.conflictgateway.com

Hello to everyone who reads the Conflict Gateway blog, this is just a quick message to keep you updated on the progress of the site.

*** Recent Updates ***

We have added 500+ new resources to the CG Directory. Many of these include articles, essays and free study materials.

We have now launched a new, sleeker and more importantly faster loading version of the site, which includes a new "article" section.

We have updated forum features to include popularly requested things such as avatars, and reward points.

Once again a big thank you to everyone who has helped out the first 2 months of the Conflict Gateway site, the initial seeds of the community rest were built by you! We are now appealing to members to help the site reach a greater audience, by doing one of three things..

1. Invite friends to this group who you feel may be interested in the site.

2. Join our forum.. http:www/conflictgateway.com/forum/ and become part of our community.

3. If you own or operate any websites, please include a link to us, as we are trying to improve our web presence and google rankings. All help will be greatly appriciated!!

Until the next update once again many thanks, keep checking the site for updates, network, make friends and give any feedback you feel would is needed!!


Regards,

Sebastian.

www.conflictgateway.com

We are looking for partners

Conflict Gateway are currently looking for partners.

If you run or are a member of an organisation that you feel may benefit from being partners with our site, please contact us via info@conflictgateway.com.

Benefits of partnership..

Extensive exposure on our site, with a prominent logo / graphic link on EVERY page on our site. As well as sharing news, knowledge, and working together to bring the conflict / peace building and related communities together.

Increased user base of our thousands of daily readers, plus our extensive network of contacts.

Ability to launch campaigns / fund raising / awareness together, creating stronger network effects and brand presence.

The ability to grow together, and develop a mutually beneficial relationship.

If you feel you could benefit than please contact us (info@conflictgateway.com) with your contact details, information about your organisation and what you are looking to gain from this alliance.

Regards

Sebastian
Conflict Gateway

Conflict Gateway V3 launched!!

The new look Conflict Gateway has been launched. We have converted to .CSS to allow faster loading times and cut down on bandwidth. Conflict Gateway is now 6 week old and we are currently averaging 2-4k hit a day, which we believe is a phenomenal achievment.

We have decided to redesign the site to give it a more professional look and easier to navigate layout.

NEW FEATURES..

ARTICLES

Our directory website has expanded and now includes article and news by members and leading industry figures. We have opened up the article submission to anyone who may be interested to give a great platform for students and practitioners to share opinions, knowledge and work.

We have also started a regular article competition so best article will win regular $100 prizes.

FORUM

Our forum has been updated and hosts a wealth of new features allowing users to reward each other, send private messages and we have also included advanced search features.

We hope you find the new site easier to navigate, any feedback would be greatly appriciated.

We look forward to seeing you on the forum!

Sebastian & the Conflict Gateway team

Update and bug fixes for August 21st

We have corrected the submission error we have been hearing about from a lot of users when they were trying to add URLs to certain categories. This has now been fixed and pages can now be submitted to all areas of the site.

Resource update

Hello everyone,

Just a very quick post to let you know how early development of the site is going on. We have spent the last few days working on our backlinks as obviously Google pagerank and positioning is just about the most important thing for the success of a site!!

We have also recently updated our resources on Conflict Gateway to over 500 now. This may sound tiny (and indeed is no comparison to) otehr conflict portals that are offering over 30k resources. However we have big ambitions, and are growing rapidly, and will have 1k+ by the end of the week, growing to 10K+ over the next couple of months.

We welcome any and all submission relating tot he conflict field, and also any backlinks would be greatly, greatly, greatly appriciated :-). If you'd like to let of know of your site or a back link / link exchange you have provided please feel free to email us at info@interimimago.com

I love the smell of a growing forum in the morning..

Forum activity has exploded in the last few days, many thanks to all who have participated in some lively discussions, we now how 25 members, which for a 2 week old forum I think is amazing. Let's see if we can push it up to 100!! I am not sure at which point a foum reaches a tipping point where it becomes very sustainable and lively, if anyone has any ideas or thoughts I would love to hear them.

Quick feedback on the forum, some users have found it very different to any forum they have used before. We use the Vanilla forum software, which takes a radical approach and concentrates on community and discussion, and strips away many elements. As the philosophy for this site was to keep it as simple as possible we started out with a very basic forum, but due to demand we will be adding certain features (avatars added yesterday) such as signitures, WYSIWYG editors and video uploads over the next week, so keep your eyes peeled!!

If you still havn't signed up to our forum please check it out here

Regards,
Seb & the conflict gateway team