adventures of superdyke behind the scenes of the online community - www.superdyke.com

Hope everyone is surviving the weather! I know Vancouver has had a bit of the cold lately, and we got dumped on in blizzard proportions here in Toronto yesterday.

Few new developments on the SD front:

• modified the Friends List so it now includes a photo of your friend and is easier to read/view
• had a bunch of SD postcards printed up for promotional purposes - if you want any, drop me a line on sd (I’m skippy) with your mailing address and I’ll send you a few
• a couple friends of mine are dressing up as superdykes tonight and we’ll be at cherrybomb, doing some preliminary promoting for SD Toronto — the plan is to promote the hell out of SD in January so we’re testing out costumes and tactics!

Hope everyone keeps warm! I’m off (from the regular job) over the holidays so hoping to catch up on some SD work. Again, if there’s something you’d like to see change on the site, drop me a line or a comment here and I’ll work on it.

Update: Crap, just realized that the links to individual posts on here weren’t working properly. Fixed now, sorry about that!

Some updates for you:

• Completed a lot of work on the staff/admin area of the site where events are updated - you guys won’t notice this, though, sorry!
• More Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques - title changes, meta desc’s and keywords, etc.
• Added the ability to browse for gay-friendly businesses and venues: This is only relevant if an event has been entered and ‘attached’ to a venue, though. Check out a Toronto event at Slack’s for an example.

What do you want to see on superdyke? Are there areas of the site you wish were improved somehow? What do you want to be able to do? How do you want to interact with the site, or other users? Drop a comment and I’ll see what I can do.

Just a few things I’ve been working on over the past two weeks for SD:

• date of last login for users on your friends list
• easier to find listing of all the events we’ve got across Canada
• brought the advice column out of hibernation - ask a question!
• random bits of search engine optimization - this is the big time consumer
• better user-friendly wording on the account sign-up pages

So the awesome lesbian theatre group based out of Vancouver, the Leaping Thespians, have created a 2009 Dyke Vancouver calendar. It’s a fundraiser for their group and features local Vancouver queer women… including yours truly for the month of October. It’s an awesome idea - support the community and purchase a calendar.

I plan on keeping a semi-regular blog on various superdyke-related issues and updates, random queer things around the world, and whatever else seems important at the time. Stay tuned!