Aidpage

Hi bookworm2011,

My wife and I are involved with a new nonprofit called BookMentors. The organization was founded just last year. The purpose is to create an online system dedicated to donating of books to students (through their teachers). Teachers will be posting requests on the site. The site will be ready sometime later this year.

Best,
Emil

 in response to Keep Faith...   You're welcome!

 in response to bookworm2011...   

For a year already, I'm standing in front of my desk (and my computer) instead of sitting... My personal experience is very positive - I feel more energized, less sleepy, and overall in better physical form...

Here are some of the articles that started me with this:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/stand-up-while-you-read-this/

http://smarterware.org/7102/how-and-why-i-switched-to-a-standing-desk

And here is another post I found now:

http://zenhabits.net/stand/

Hope that helps.

 in response to bookworm2011...   Nothing compared to the time and thought it took you to write this post.

Amazing post! Thank you.

Might be the most amazing post I have ever seen on Aidpage.

Go to your "About..." page and click on the "Edit this post..." link. 

http://jon17.aidpage.com/about.htm

The keywords are listed below the post - you can uncheck the ones you don't want.

Best,
AidpageTeam

 in response to Schmidty...   Schmidty,

Everything you say makes sense - and we (AidpageTeam) have been through all these considerations and possibilities.

At this stage, with our limited resources, we decided that running the Sharing Program is not a good thing for Aidpage. And that's final.

Most participants in the Sharing Program already accepted our decision. I'm not saying that they're necessarily happy about it... but most replied in one-to-one messages that they understand our decision... and that they support Aidpage.

Let's close this discussion.

We really are stretched in terms of manpower in our work to keep Aidpage online and free of spammers - 24/7. On top of this, Aidpage is in need of fundamental reworking of it's technological backend and its user interface - which is a huge work ahead of us.

Let's stop talking about the Sharing Program.

And - a note to everyone(!) - we will not tolerate posting activity and spreading of rumors whose purpose is undermining the credibility of Aidpage and AidpageTeam. We will promptly remove from Aidpage members engaging in such activity.

Best,
Emil

Thank you Sandy!

Happy upcoming Easter to you too!

Best,
Emil

 in response to Schmidty...   BTW... Schmidty... The search function on Aidpage is still not working. It was stopped by Google Adsense last Friday along with the stopping of the ad serving. We are still waiting for Google to restore it.

 in response to Schmidty...   Schmidty...

I'll reply later today or may be even tomorrow. I just don't have a quick and easy answer.

Best,
Emil

 in response to Starshine...   Thank you Starshine... everyone could add comments under that page.

 in response to mamashe/sheshe...   Of course it is legal - Aidpage is a free service... and you don't have any material interest in telling other people about it.

 in response to Starshine...   

Starshine...

How to grow Aidpage - this is the question on my mind 24/7.

If we come up with some practical ways for members to "evangelize" about Aidpage - we'll tell you.

In the meantime - feel free to do whatever you come up with.

Ideas are most welcome (may be we should move this conversation in "Discussing Aidpage")

Best,
Emil

 in response to mamashe/sheshe...   Sheshe,

It is not just "pages" of posted content - it's about "pageviews" - which means people visiting pages on Aidpage (just a technical correction). Aidpage must simply become a site known by much more people. And this is not an easy task.

We work very hard to grow Aidpage (why wouldn't we?). We are totally dedicated to Aidpage.

Best,
Emil

 in response to mamashe/sheshe...   Sheshe,

I was writing to Schmidty while you posted - so I didn't see your post immediately.

First - thank you for all the good words about Aidpage and the people who created it.

Second - we are NOT happy about the removing of the Sharing Program. We know that this will hurt some of our most dedicated members. And we know that this may make some of them leave Aidpage. We just had to make a hard choice.

Third - fortunately, the Sharing Program is far from being the main reason most people contribute on Aidpage. In fact, of all Contributors, just about 10 chose to participate in the Sharing Program. All other Contributors, including YOU (for most of your stay on Aidpage) are not here because of the financial incentive.

This is very important! Aidpage was never intended to be like one of those other self-publishing sites where people write "content" in order to make money. Nothing wrong with "making money" - we all need it - but Aidpage was always about talking to and helping each other. The satisfaction of doing this is the main reason for most members to stay on Aidpage.

Thank you again for being an Aidmate!

Best,
Emil

 in response to Schmidty...   Schmidty...

The very short answer to your post is:

Yes - we are really that paranoid about the possibility of Aidpage being taken down by the total loss of revenue in case Adsense decides to shut down our account.

And this possibility is very real because Aidpage is still not big enough to have a partnership with Google.

Just to give you an idea - Aidpage has about 15,000 pageviews (total) per day. The minimum required by Google Adsense for establishment of partnership is 100,000 pageviews per day.

Aidpage must grow 6 times larger before we get to have someone in Adsense to contact by email in case of problems. As of now, the communication with Google Adsense is one-way - they contact us in case of violations - we can't contact them. In fact, this latest crisis (this weekend) was resolved by a very prompt reaction by Catluv (one of our members). She was the one that got a notice from Adsense about the problems on WhoKnew's pages (because of the way we rotate Adsense IDs on Aidpage). Without the quick and precise actions of Catluv in response to the Adsense notice, the crisis could have been much longer and damaging. We (AidpageTeam) did NOT get a notice from Adsense.

When we grow Aidpage to become 6 times larger - we will reconsider having a Sharing Program (eventually managed through a partnership with Google).

We've had 2 crises recently - one with Nini and one with WhoKnew - all caused by "unhappy" participants in the Sharing Program.

There is no way for us to make sure that all participants in the Sharing Program will be happy. That would be contrary to human nature when it comes to distribution of money.

We can't have a third crisis with Adsense - they don't play around when it comes to closing accounts.

I may add more here... in response to your post - later today or tomorrow.

In the meantime - don't worry - unless you start using four letter words starting with "f" addressed to us... :) - as was the case with WhoKnew - you'll keep your account on Aidpage.

Best,
Emil

Love that story...

 in response to Inspiration...   

You're most welcome!

Just wanted to add something... We explicitely recommend against sharing personal contact info (real name, email, phone number, street address) - see this post...

One of the reasons is obviously to keep your personal identity and privacy protected from verbal threats and harassment.

Best,
Emil

 in response to Inspiration...   

Hi Inspiration,

That's a really unpleasant thing to happen. Filing a report with the police is exactly the right thing to do in such a case.

Don't worry about that person reappearing on Aidpage. If you recognize that person through his/her posts and messages on Aidpage, just report it to AidpageTeam.

You did good also by posting about this here. Members should be aware of the possibility of such things happening.

Generally speaking, we've been fortunate to have an amazingly small number of "bad apples" on Aidpage... considering what happens on the web at large. It is true also that we put a lot of effort in making sure that such people don't last on Aidpage.

Best,
Emil 

 in response to char6...   You're welcome Char... and you're right again - public posting is a healthy thing.