You might notice a new look for TexasStartupBlog.com and for all of the other SpringStage blogs (there are about 30 now!). We’ve moved to a new platform that consolidates all of these into one site – SpringStage.com!
Internally we call this SpringStage 2.0, and we’ve been working towards it for a while.SpringStage is now a full blown community that allows everyone to contribute stories about the startup ecosystem in their community. Now you can contribute right here! You can write about your own company, about someone else’s company, or about a trend relating to your community. It’s up to you!
Each community now has one or more curators. For example, I’m a curator in the Texas region, and as such I can feature any article that any of you write. Featured articles show up on the home page for the region, as well as in the RSS feed for subscribers. Anyone in the community can also vote up (or down) articles that the community contributes, so you can help me to quickly identify the best articles to feature.
I’ve attached a quick video showing you how to contribute your own stories here on SpringStage. It’s about a minute long, so check it out.
If you’re an RSS subscriber, we’ve updated your feed to work with the new system. This may cause a small glitch that may make it seem like you’re getting some old articles again in your feed. This will only happen once and it should be fine going forward.
We’ve already discovered a few bugs with the new system, so please bear with us while we correct them. The fine folks over at GetGrogger.com (who make the tools we’re using) are kicking ass and quickly handling issues that we’re encountering. We’d urge you to use the feedback button on the left margin of the site to let us know about any problems you encounter, or any features you’d like to see us add. As always, we’d love your feedback in the comments!
Lastly, please, use the region menu to check out and subscribe to some other communities across the country that you’re interested in. And of course if you’d like to be a curator for your region, please drop me an email and let me know – we’ll hook you up!
