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State of the LexBlog2016 Address

Agenda & Presenters

LexBlog’s refined vision and mission

Review of 2015 upgrades

What’s new in 2016

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VISION AND MISSION

Looking Ahead

LexBlog focus

SaaS model fully realized

What this means for members

Our team’s emphasis


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2015 RECAP: UPGRADES

Major Technology Upgrades

Hosting improvement

Partnered with CloudFlare to boost security, stability, speed, and scale

Kept pace with WordPress core and plugin upgrades – four major upgrades this year


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2015 RECAP:PREMIER MANAGED

PLATFORM


PREMIER MANAGED PLATFORMLayered Security

Approach

• SSL for HTTPS everywhere

• Uptime SLA• Exclusive

platform

Platform Customizations

• Maintenance mode

• Google Analytics in dashboard

• Editor alerts for post changes

Front-of-the-Line Upgrade Access

• Bug fixes first• Priority updates• First to get new

features


2015 RECAP:NEW APPROACH TO

RESPONSIVE DESIGN


OLD NEW


NEW MATCHES BLOG FONTS, ETC.

Front-end Back-end


NEW PLANSFOR PUBLISHERS AND TEAMS OF ALL SIZES


NEW PUBLISHER PLANSPROFESSIONAL

$99/month• Email & community

support• Personalized responsive

design with firm logo• Email notifications, RSS,

social sharing, SEO, & more

• Up to 5 users

BOUTIQUE$199/month

• Email, community, and phone support

• New ways to highlight authors• Pending review notifications• Cookie disclaimers• Subscribe page• Branded email, advanced

forms, author SEO, & more• Up to 20 users

FULL SERVICE$350/month

• Responsive magazine layout

• About page with authors• Email personalization• Facebook Open Graph

and Twitter Card support• Post SEO controls• Named Engagement

Manager• Unlimited users


ROADMAP DECISION-MAKING


ROADMAP DECISIONS

Technology Research, Industry

Developments

Member Ideas (Reach

Community)

Member Feedback (Surveys,

etc.)Support Trends

Best Publishing Practices


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Priorities based on greatest positive impact to member publishing success

Themes of work built out for six months, revisited quarterly

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#LexBlogLearnProduct Roadmap 2016 Themes

More platform tools for members

Platform support integration

Top member ideas- Google Analytics event tracking- Additional email notification in-platform stats- Page layouts

Network Sites

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#LexBlogLearnRecap: State of the LexBlog

1. Refined vision and mission

2. 2015: major work to bring members latest technology

3. 2015: development of new responsive design technology

4. New blog publisher plans to fit range of needs starting at $99/month

5. Roadmap work ahead: member feedback welcome, stay tuned for developments


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