What's Happening Now on eHow

Today we have a sweet deal on eHow.com.  We’ve got two stories in one post.  Let’s start off with some news that really matters to the eHow community.  So, just today we did a few new releases on the site.  The eHow team has been regularly pushing out enhancements and many of them are related to the community.  We’re hearing you out and we are making sure to deliver the goods.  Without further ado, check out what our team dished out today:

New holiday header: If you’ve noticed, we have the new St. Patrick’s Day header on eHow.  It’ll feel extra green on the site for the rest of the week and don’t forget to check in on the homepage to see some great St. Patrick’s Day related articles.  Our editorial team is looking for some good ones, so feel free to reply to this post with your suggestions.

Scroll through your articles with ease: Pagination… pagination… pagination… what does that mean to you?  It means that you’ll have a better way to get through your articles now.  The dreaded “next” or “back” button is now of the past and you’re able to go through your articles through pages.  We know this was a long time coming, but rest assured, we want things to be easy peasy

Article quality is a must: Aligned with our goal to ensure quality articles on the site, we have implemented new check boxes that require contributors to agree to the terms of use as well as confirm that any article they are submitting is not plagiarized.  “First the CAPTCHA, and now this?” This is what you may be thinking in your head, but this definitely the direction we need to take to avoid unruly users from gaming the system and submitting articles that do not follow eHow.com’s submission guidelines.  Issues have been quite prevalent the past months and although it may seem like a hassle to go through this process, ultimately it’s beneficial for the community, since we want to surface articles that are legitimate and original.

eHow is a community: Finally, eHow is just not another repository of information; it’s also a community site.  We’re making it our goal to express the communal side of eHow, especially for this year.  If you check out the homepage, you’ll now see a new module that tells you exactly what is happening now on eHow.  It displays everything in real time of what articles have been commented on or have been published.  Believe it or not, but you can probably just sit there for a good 10 minutes staring at it to see what kind of articles are being published.  It’s quite nifty indeed.

Bethenny Frankel

More on eHow.com…

You see the eHow experts being promoted on the site, but did you know we have a celebrity expert, such as Bethenny Frankel.  You may know her from “The Real Housewives of NYC” and she’s our official eHow food expert.  Bethenny is currently on a book tour, promoting her book called “Naturally Thin Unleash Your SkinnyGirl and Free Yourself from a Lifetime of Dieting.”  She may be in your neck of the woods, so we welcome you to meet up with her at the following locations:

Wednesday, March 11th

Barnes & Noble - Tribeca - Speak & Sign Event

97 Warren Street, New York, NY

7pm

Saturday, March 14th

Fred Segal Fun Santa Monica - Speak & Sign Event

500 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA

4pm

Wednesday, March 18th

Barnes & Noble- Century City - Speak & Sign Event

250 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

7pm

For more info on Bethenny, please check out her eHow profile.