In addition to this new feature, we’ve tweaked a little suggestion tools bar that appears on all pages of suggestions for your blog. Just click the “Manage »” button. This should be more convenient than always having to go back to the manage page and finding the suggestion you wanted to edit or update.

Bear with us a little while longer and we hope to have these issues sorted out and have Skribit running faster than ever! In the meantime, you can keep tabs on our Twitter updates on @Skribit.

Thanks for sticking it out!

Here are the first three topics Chris suggests:

1. What challenges are my potential customers facing. Do I have any advice for them?
2. What have I read lately? What points were interesting? Can I add more to it?
3. What bugs me? Can I write about another way to approach it?

and I recommend you visit the full post for the other 17 ideas! What tips or tricks do you have that relate to getting “unstuck” when it comes to blogging? We’d love to hear ‘em!

The details of the new release can be found in my blog post about the design process. But the rundown is that this release, aside from looking a lot better, has support for more tags (groups, blogs and suggestions can be tagged - check your “Edit Blog Details” page to update the tags and description), and several “explore”-type pages that let you browse all of the blogs on Skribit.

As always, lots more stuff is in the pipeline. Stay tuned!

Skribit mentioned on gatech.edu

For more about this, take a look at a recent press release from the Georgia Institute of Technology covering Skribit.

The new startup, called Skribit, is preparing for a beta launch. What is it? I really have no idea. It’s described as “a social software widget that allows bloggers to take suggestions directly from their readers. Widgets are shareable web applications that anyone can easily grab and post into the blog of their choice.” Sounds like a commenting system to me.

Like I said, I don’t expect much from Skribit and the other Startup Weekend startups, but the events have real value nonetheless.

Michael Arrington might not have gotten the concept when we launched but I sure bet he didn’t expect us to be around this long. Skribit is the most successful Startup Weekend company to date. If I had to pinpoint any particular reason for this it would deal with passion. Calvin and I have a strong passion to see Skribit become successful and grow a large community of happy users. To see that dream come true we have stayed motivated, listened to you guys and kept on trucking — not to mention received great advice from our self-proclaimed grey haired advisor along the way.

So what’s next? I wrote about some of that on my blog as well gave a sneak peak of a new feature we developed this past weekend at Atlanta Startup Weekend 2.

Thanks for sticking with us despite the bugs, downtime and miscellaneous issues that inevitably come with a small startup. The next few months should prove interesting.

The new Skribit widget customized on PaulStamatiou.com (left) and blog.codeeg.com (right)

Additionally, there are some notable usability improvements. When you click the title text (”What Should I Write About” in these examples) in the textbox, it moves down and lets you type your suggestion directly in there - as opposed to flipping to a new screen and hiding the current suggestions.

As mentioned, we are currently beta testing the new widget. You can give it a whirl by either checking it out on our blogs (Paul, Calvin), or installing it yourself with our new WordPress plugin. The plugin helps install the widget on WordPress blogs using widgetized themes. If your theme doesn’t support WP widgets, drop us a line and we’ll provide you with the code snippet to manually install it on your blog.

As usual, feel free to provide us with any comments, suggestions or feedback on our Get Satisfaction page.

The next time you’re browsing Skribit.com and spot a suggestion that you would like to write about, or just gauge the interest of your readers, click on the “add” button. If you have multiple blogs, select which one you’d like to add the suggestion to from the drop-down.

The suggestion will then be copied over to your account as well and your readers can vote on it too, through your widget or blog profile page.

As for related features in the works, we have been developing groups and browse pages. More on that when we’re ready to push them live!

Got feedback? You can comment on this post or visit the Satisfaction page.

To install the Skribit FeedFlare unit in your FeedBurner’d RSS feed, log into your Skribit account, click on the “My Blogs” (the manage page) link and follow the instructions on the “Goodies” page.

Now this begs the question, do you use FeedBurner?