1- Company Section:

This area is exclusively meant for employers to keep an eye on pings and comments posted for their company, and reply to them in an effective manner. Employers can have upto three email addresses registered for their company. The only email addresses that can be used for PingMyCompany.com’s Employer account are hr@yourcompanysite.com, careers@yourcompanysite.com, info@yourcompanysite.com. We’re strict to these email addresses for employers’ security. The process of registration is thought completely automated, but not the activation, as we keep a manual check on all registered accounts. By having Employer’s account a company can not only keep an eye on all pings and reply to them, but can also reply to questions people ask and can ask questions, and have an effective two way communication.

Along with the Company’s section, PingMyCompany.com has brought a new look for companies’ detail pages, i.e. Company detail page has come up with exciting new features:

• Pings Section
• Questions and Answers
• CrunchBase profile of the Company

Everyone is familiar with the Ping Section, i.e. it’s all about pings in favor and against a company. Moving towards Questions and Answers section, it works in a very simple way, i.e Employers and users can interact in a more effective way, i.e. share information and have quick feedback.

The CrunchBase Profile contains the data we import from CrunchBase, i.e. if a company doesn’t exist on Crunchbase, we will not be able to show any data for that company in this particular area.

Company detail page also contains Notification and Share options, yYou can use this notification button to register for notifications, and can change setting from the button from top right corner:

2- Notification:

This section is for employers as well as for users where by they can set an alert for latest pings and comments about companies. To get this feature enabled one will have to subscribe for a particular company, i.e. go to company detail page, and follow the Notification tab at the upper right corner of the page, select your preferences and tell PingMyCompany.com the email address where we can send you the notifications. The preferences can later be edited from the tab at the upper left corner of any page.

3- FAQs:

FAQs section has just been updated with detailed categories, and currently it covers following:

• General User Guidance
• Company Account Holders
• Pinging & Commenting
• Login/Registration
• Legal Issues

4- Widget/API:

PingMyCompany.com has defined some functions for widget and API, that anyone can use on any site to provide their visitors with the best experience by letting them have the fresh content from PingMyCompany.com. Link to Widget/API page can be found in the right side of footer, just next to About Us link.

]]> http://pingmycompany.com/blog/2008/08/20/ver-2-revealed/feed/ http://pingmycompany.com/blog/2008/06/19/updates-on-pingmycompanycom/ http://pingmycompany.com/blog/2008/06/19/updates-on-pingmycompanycom/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:19:28 +0000 Qurratulain Akhtar http://pingmycompany.com/blog/?p=18 Here’s a list of updates on PingMyCompany.com

Tag Clouds:

Two different clouds have been added at the top, just above the companies’ listing. These clouds have same functions on differnt basis, i.e. the one if left makes the most pinged companies prominent while the one in right exposes the busiest categories. The more a company is pinged, the more bold it’ll be shown in the cloud and same for categories.

Company Categories:

The feature has been added while keeping the enhanced search and navigation in mind, i.e. now users can search specific companies under a particular industry, and to make it easy a list of companies is given in a drop down menu, just submit the company in most relevant category.

Improved Navigation:

Keeping the user friendliness in mind, PingMycompany.com now helps user to find exactly what they need. For instance you’ve mistyped the URL, i.e. www.pingmycompany.com/net while you’re looking for Netsol. Now PMC will index all pages with ‘net’ for you.

Improved Search:

Search function at PingMyCompany.com has also been improved. First it used to search the keyword in companies’ names, now it covers the whole content, i.e. if one searches “Zigron”, he’ll find all the pages in index where “Zigron” appears.

Share With a Friend:

And, above all, now you can share any company’s page with your friends via Email. Just enter the email of your friends and we’ll let them know what you want to tell them.

I have been getting few pings as “inappropriate” but to be honest I didnt find anything wrong with them. Our main goal is to make sure that we delete only those pings which contain very abusive language or content.

At times few pings are marked “inappropriate” because someone didnt seem to agree with them. Sometimes pings are marked because they are against a firm’s management team or boss. In such cases we dont feel that they should be deleted. These are people’s opinion and they should be heard.

At this moment there is not standard policy for us to evaluate these pings but we try our level best to make sure pings are fair and appropriate enough so that everyone can read them.

I will really appreciate if you can comment on how we should evaluate “inappropriate” pings.

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Hope to see few more such reviews and feedback to improve PingMyCompany further.

Ping Team.

- Translation updated:

We have updated the translation feature. Now text is not automatically translated rather there is a translation link which users can use to get that particular ping in english. We plan to add a a new feature which will convert the entire page in any language.

- Pagination added:

Pagination feature is added to our main page. Let us know if it works better.

- Single Ping button:

Now under each "Details" page there is only one button to add your pings. We have added a catagory section which you can select under which catagory you want to add your ping to.

We have used Google Translation APIs. Please let us know if you see any issues and we will try to fix it or worst just turn the service off if the translation is too off the track.

Feel free to leave your suggestion here or email us at pingmycompany [at] zigron [dot] com

1) Inappropriate link

Now you can report any ping as “inappropriate” and we will look into it.

2) CAPTCHA

Though we like all our visitors but just to make sure that only humans add pings we have added CAPTCHA feature.

3) Better usability for sub-topics

We have added “Expand All ” & “Collapse All” feature to our sub-topics list. We have also made sure that if any sub-topic has any pings then its automatically expanded by default.

1) Follow us @ twitter:

Now you can follow PingMyCompany activity via twitter. Just add “PingMyCompany” to your twitter account or follow us at twitter.com/PingMyCompany

2) Quick Count:

For better UX we added a quick count next to each Ping category under “Details” page.

3) PingMyCompany on Facebook

We have Facebook page now and if you become a fan you will get recent activity in your personal News Feed.

4) New Filters

We have added new filters on homepage. “Most Favored” and “Most Against”

5) Sub-topics:

We have added sub-topics under each firm. Each sub-topic also has its own Ping count. This will help users fine tune their discussion. For the moment these topics are hand picked and are only added by us but soon they will be open of all based on feedback. You can recommend us more sub-topics via “Suggestion” form or email us at pingmycompany@zigron.com

Feedback/Love/Hate/Advice will be highly appreciated.

Thank you everyone who has visited us till now. We will appreciate if you can pursue your friends to give their thoughts/pings about different firms so we are all better equipped.

Thanks

Ping Team.