We are happy to announce the Yola Style Designers Community. The goal of the Style Designers Community is to create a means for designers who have experience with web design or graphic tools to easily submit new Yola Styles and earn money from their work.
We only pay for submissions if we accept the style (and we only use accepted styles) - read more in our Terms and Conditions
Images you use must be images you own either own all of the rights to, or stock images that you can direct us to, and that we can buy redistribution rights to. Images you find on the web and don’t have redistribution licenses for are NOT acceptable.
We’re very excited about this initiative and we look forward to your Yola Style Design submissions!
We’ve always thought our support team was fantastic and now it seems that the rest of the world is noticing as well! Over the past month, the Yola team has received 2 big honors.
First, SupportAwards.org recognized Yola for having the best customer support across all industries, beating out legendary brands like Zappos and Apple. In addition, our own Monique Viljoen-Platts won the award for the most outstanding support agent. Go Monique!
Second, Yola was the subject of a Forrester Research study about how we’ve leveraged the strength of our community in Get Satisfaction to scale our customer service as we’ve grown. The study offers tips for other companies who are looking to improve their customer support though their communities.
Our support team is always working on improving their service and it’s great to see them get this kind of recognition.
After a fantastic event at SOCAP09, we’re pleased to share that Yola’s Kiva Lending Team contributed $7,500 to support entrepreneurs around the world. Starting today, Yola will be matching that amount and we need your help to identify great Kiva entrepreneurs who need funding. Here’s the plan:
Yola will be accepting Kiva loan recommendations via Twitter so start following @yola today. To nominate an entrepreneur, post a message like this one from your Twitter account:
@yola fund this Kiva entrepreneur: Beatrice is a 25-year old dress maker in the Ashanti region of Ghana bit.ly/8Safr
Twitter only allows 140 characters but that should still leave enough room to share something interesting about each of the entrepreneurs. Don’t forget to include a link to each entrepreneur’s page and @yola so we see your recommendation.
For more information on Kiva, read about them here. And for an interesting article on SOCAP - which Yola and Kiva co-sponsored last week - take a look at this article from the Economist.
As we approach the kickoff of SOCAP09, we’d like to invite our users to join Yola’s Kiva Lending Yeam. With Kiva, the Yola community can make loans directly to entrepreneurs around the globe. It’s fun. It’s easy. And it’s a powerful way to help real people achieve economic independence, improving life for themselves, their family, and their community.
We’re excited to announce that Yola will be co-sponsoring SOCAP09 this year along with our friends at Kiva.
SOCAP09 is a gathering of the world’s top social innovators held on September 1st through 3rd at The Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. Yola will be exhibiting at the event and we’d love to see as many of our users there as possible. To make that possible, we’re offering a 30% discount for the Yola network using the code “YA30.” Register here to take advantage of this offer special offer.
We are pleased to announce the Grand Opening of our very own Yola store!
Many of our loyal Yola customers tell their friends about Yola, and we really appreciate that. Now you can sport Yola on branded Tees, Jackets, Bags, Badges and much more. You can even kit your pet out with their own Yola outfit and bowl. I’m thinking of getting the cute dog outfit, and I don’t even have a dog…
Emmy Bill, part of our superstar community support team, gave this Yola video demo to the guys at InformationWeek at the Web 2.0 Conference in early April in San Francisco .
Our very own Community Support Guru, Monique, is being interviewed this Wednesday by the folks over at Get Satisfaction as an example of a “Wildly Successful Community Manager“!
Now, you may be asking, “What is the Teen Biotech Challenge and why are you blogging it?”
TBC 2009 is a science challenge that encourages high school students to demonstrate their understanding of biotechnology’s impact in the world. Participating students will develop research and presentation skills, and most importantly, have fun learning about new technologies! Read on >>
UC Davis chose Yola as the website builder that the students used to present their findings. (Now you see why we’re blogging it…) The websites were judged for adherence to contest directions, quality of information, web design, and overall presentation.
There were 3 winners each in 7 different categories. Here are links to a couple of the winners.
We’ve had a lot of questions about whether the URLs of all of our users’ sites will be changing when we switch our name from SynthaSite to Yola.
Rest assured that the URLs for all of our users’ sites will stay the same. If your URL today is mysite.synthasite.com, your URL next month (after we’ve changed to Yola) will still be mysite.synthasite.com.
Hope that helps allay any concerns. We want our name change to have as little impact as possible on our user community.
