It has been an interesting and challenging week this week for Amdram.net | Amateur Theatre Community
Following an upgrade to some of the components on our server we started to suffer from performance problems – we have now addressed this problem
Spam Increase – We haven’t completely addressed this problem as yet however we will shortly be introducing new user moderation to the site to prevent further misuse – We have secured the funding and have asked a developer to make this modification for us.
Newsletter – The newsletter did not complete sending, we’re not sure if this was associated with the performance problem above – We shall see
We are currently beta testing new functionality to enable you to add your forthcoming productions or festivals to Amdram.net | Amateur Theatre Community so that we can promote them on your behalf.
In this day and age many groups are “tweeting” so we’ve decided to make it nice and easy for you to ensure that when you update http://twitter.com with your latest “tweet” you’ll also be updating your group activity information here on Amdram.net | Amateur Theatre Community.
We’ve put together an instructional video which provides a step by step guide on how to link your twitter account to your group:
Important Notes
Please ensure that the Twitter account that you link to you group is dedicated to the group as we need to make sure activity updates are on topic – As per the rules here
You can link your Twitter account to your group as long as you are the Group Administrator, if not please contact us or your Group Administrator
Unfortunately this morning we received an unprecedent number of “Spam Registrations” on the site which lead to us taking the decision to suspend the registration functionality on the site.
We have now introduced further preventative measures to minimise the number of “Spam Registrations” made on the site and would like to sincerely apologise to all our visitors for the inconvenience caused.
Unfortunately spam is becoming an ever increasing problem on the internet, I note from perusing the BBC News website today that even the internet giants such as Google are struggling to find new and effective ways to combat this menace.
We will continue to monitor, review and develop the site to inhibit this menace!
We have spent a number of months developing a new brand for Amdram.net | Amateur Theatre Community which reflects the more modern approach that we are taking to things.
We will shortly be rolling out our new brand across all aspects of the site, this will take some time as the previous logo is around 5 years old
Unfortunately we’re not invulnerable to spam and the open nature of Amdram.net | Amateur Theatre Community means that we are a target for spammers.
Spammers often use automated bots to visit sites such as Amdram.net | Amateur Theatre Community and attempt to register and then create numerous posts and blogs peddling their usually illegal wares.
We are constantly battling the spammers using a variety of different technologies, tools and techniques but of course it is difficult to stay one step ahead.
We blocked over 700 attempts to register by spammers in the last 7 days which is a considerable and potentially scary statistic.
In the event that a spammer does circumvent our perimeter security then we will do our best to suspend their account and remove offending posts in the most efficient manner possible.
In the event that you spot a spammer before we do then please contact us and we’ll act as soon as physically possible!
We are pleased to be able to announce that we have now rolled out SEO facilities to all the blogs and websites hosted here at Amdram.net | Amateur Theatre Community.
If you are not familiar with the acronym SEO then it rtabds for Search Engine Optimisation which is the art of promoting your site
Our SEO facilities are a new feature to te site which should allow all everyone to promote their blog or website better to search engines such as Bing, Google and Yahoo.
Hello! Welcome to the newsletter from Amdram.net | Amateur Theatre Community Amdram.net | Amateur Theatre Community – Announcements & News A Challenging Week August 1, 2010 in news by Administrator It has been an interesting and challenging week this week for Amdram.net | Amateur Theatre Community ■Following an upgrade to some of the components on our server we [...]
It has been an interesting and challenging week this week for Amdram.net | Amateur Theatre Community Following an upgrade to some of the components on our server we started to suffer from performance problems – we have now addressed this problem Spam Increase – We haven’t completely addressed this problem as yet however we will shortly be [...]
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