quiet weekend - still no Adsense

My folks were over for the weekend in London, so I have been offline for most of the time.

I'm disappointed that Google still has not approved the Adsense request and does not respond to my emails about it. Just sent another email chasing it.

Plan for Q3 07 online

I firmly believe that without a good plan it is difficult to focus and achieve objectives. That's why when the project was launched, we published a 12 week startup plan. I'm glad to say that we have (over)achieved every single one of our objectives in 6 weeks instead of 12. Now that the project is firmly launched, we are ready to move into a new phase: Getting the site ready for a big launch. (plan for Q3 07).

So what do we need to focus on to get ready for a big launch at the end of September?

First of all we need to put you in charge. This is a community project, where the members take the decisions. Over the next 2 months I would like the members to elect a management team. Every manager will get complete responsibility over a part of the site.
We will also start using the forum more actively so you can vote on what direction you think the project needs to head into.

The second workstream will be focused on quality. What can we do to improve the site? We have an improvements section on the members forum where you can drop anything that you think will improve the quality. It can be as small as a misspelling in a word or as big as designing a new layout.

Thirdly we need to extend the site to move it from a webmaster dictionary to the ultimate webmaster resource. We also have a suggestions area on the forum where you can drop all your suggestions in.

The fourth workstream is focused on monetisation. We need to make sure we have everything in place before we start properly promoting the site, to ensure we have a good way of converting our traffic into $$.

Finally, we will continue our link building, dictionary extension and referring member campaigns to continue to grow the site.

At the end of the quarter or sooner if we think we have achieved these objectives, we will organise a member vote to see if we are ready to go live and release our project onto the world with a solid campaign

Reports are live

We have just added a new section to our project: Reports!
This way you can all follow how we are doing. Currenly we only have Google Analytics reports. I will upload a new one every week.

Member Forum online

I'm glad to announce that the member forum is now online. You can log in using the same credential you received when you registered with webmastervocab.

Currently I have added 3 boards:
- the Bug board: Here you can report all types of bugs, and follow up how they are being resolved
- the Suggestion board: Here you can drop all types of suggestions for improvements.
- the General Chat board: This is the place to talk to other members about anything else.

As you will see the layout still needs some work, but I will work on that later.

Payments Processed

We have processed all the payment requests this afternoon, so please check your paypal balance and get in touch if you think something went wrong.

Need some help - automatically publish email (with attachment) to a web page

I would like to automatically share the traffic reports I receive from Google Analytics. I was planning to use the blogger email functionality for this. Unfortunately I have just found out, it does not publish attachments.
Does anybody know any tools that will allow me to publish automatically an email with attachment to a web page?

In the mean time, for people who are interested, I have uploaded the traffic info from the last 6 weeks. Let me know if there is any other info you would like to see as well.

I know I could just give everybody access to Google Analytics as a member, but I would like to avoid this as:
- This is not very scalable, it will become a problem when we continue to grow.
- It shows pages in development that are not properly secured, could create a security risk.

Traffic Overview 7/Jun - 20/Jul