Europeskate.com, Give Earth a Hand and SocialBitz.com undergoing major updates

It has been yet again a while since my last update but this is probably the first time I am not coming up with ideas about why I haven’t been blogging here.

The reason is that I have been working hard on my three main sites: Europeskate.com , Give Earth a Hand and SocialBitz.com

It goes without saying that it takes a lot of work to get a site started and even more to build up a community around a site and I have been working hard to get these site up and running. Give Earth a Hand (start April 2007) and Europeskate.com (start March 2006 with relaunch this year) have been around for a bit. Europeskate.com is a Wordpress based blog system with a Google Maps app integration. I am currently adding news, tweaking the user interface and working on new graphics. Also I am working through a Google Maps book in order to rebuild the mapping application.

Give Earth a Hand is a social community which supports non-profit organisations and their projects. The major part of the site is a Google Maps application as well. This is sort of buggy still to be quite honest, but after investing lots of time into trying to contact organisations, building the community functionality and reading and collecting information about the environment, I have decided to rebuild major parts of the site to improve the usability.

And last but not least I have been working with the open source CMS Joomla to create a new community website reporting about social communities, mash-ups, start-ups, widgets - basically, anything moving the Internet at the moment. I tried using Joomla 1.5, but  it is not ready for a live site currently. So I have moved back to Joomla 1.012 and I ma moving forwards quickly. It is intensive to read about new sites, try them out and write interesting reports (hopefully), but it is what interests me daily so I am looking forward to pushing this site as well.

Oh yeah, and I am working full-time on a lot of new projects for work so yeah, I’m busy So stay tuned, I’ll be keeping this blog as a basic updater about my current life.