Ed Howes writes:

Chris, it sounds like those two hours and the others to make it happen were well spent. A special new members section would be a plus for all. As an internet newbie I have discovered many benefits of EzineArticles membership by accident. Like many others, I was focused on submitting my content here and elsewhere. It was at least 3 months before I began discriminating with submissions. It was only when I checked your bio, I realized your articles should have been the first I read on site or from site. I have no doubt the vast majority of MEMBERS have yet to discover even half what I have because of the focus on numbers and personal web site traffic. But I, for one, am very excited to learn about what you are willing to share.

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Dina Giolitto writes:

Dear Chris,

I am a huge admirer of your and your team because of the noble and diplomatic way you run your author community. You make me want to shut down my business for six months and write a book on internet business ethics with you guys as the model prototype.

In Point 1, you said: “This tells me that we need to do more author education.” The web is a funny place – the information is often right there but you just have to know where to look. Those who “tune in and turn on” to EzineArticles.com will never have a question as to how things work or what the proper protocol is. The whole free article enterprise nature of this site puts the ownes on the author, because there is nothing here that you haven’t already covered.

So, I think the responsibility to do the right thing lies with the author, as you’ve already done your part.

Those to whom things are not clear would do well to sign up for your ezine and start reading the friendly, upbeat and informative emails you guys send throughout the month. As Ed Howes recently suggested, they can peruse the blog including “back issues.” As time allows, why not even go on an EzineArticles deep-reading session? Just sit back, relax, and start clicking links to learn more. It’s all there… just click the links. All of them.

Speaking of authors tuning in… I regret flaking out on the Town Hall because I suspected you’d make it terrific and now as I read this after post, it’s clear that you did.

Thanks for making it so easy for us internet authors to get our names out there.

Your fan,

Dina

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Michael Russell writes:

I have had published over 1,000 articles here and must confess I STILL keep finding new ‘stuff’

EzineArticles is still leaps and bounds ahead of the ‘competition’ in my opinion – keep up the good work folks….

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Lance Winslow writes:

I was unable to attend this meeting due to conflict, but I am still kicking everyone’s butt. I have a question is 30,300 a good number for the number of Ezine Editor captures? Is 5500 a good number of articles? Is 1,465,555 a good number of article views? I hesitate slightly to take advice because, I believe this game is about numbers. In other words since I am destroying the stats of everyone here and I am not a writer, I wonder what advice would be worthy. Just write lots of articles and then secondly after you do that, then work on these other things you might have mentioned in the home town meeting.

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