[bksvol-discuss] Re: Improvements to website speed and book quality reporting procedures

  • From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 01:44:26 -0700 (PDT)

Yay!! Many, many thanksto Engineering from all of us. from all of us

 
Cindy
Join us in celebrating our 10th Anniversary! 

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>________________________________
> From: Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>Cc: Alisa Moore <alisam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 1:07 AM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Improvements to website speed and book quality 
>reporting procedures
> 
>
>WOW!  I just renewed a book, at 2 a.m, that before the improvements would have 
>taken about 5 minutes at best at this time of night to renew (usually more 
>like ten minutes).  It took less than a minute total.  Then I uploaded a book 
>that had been proofread.  That took less than two minutes, including the time 
>to upload the book using dial-up! Before the improvements it was taking at 
>least 15 minutes to half an hour, at this time of night, if it worked at all.
>
>Break out the party hats!  And please let engineering know because
      this is a stupendous improvement!
>
>Judy s.
>
>On 5/8/2012 12:32 PM, Alisa Moore wrote: 
> 
>>Hi all,
>> 
>>Today we learned of several improvements to our website that will positively 
>>impact your work! 
>> 
>>Some important hardware improvements were made, resulting in shorter 
>>submission processing times.  While you’ll generally get better results 
>>submitting your scans and proofs during the day (when the system is running 
>>optimally for our 200k+ members, and because system maintenance runs over 
>>night), you should see faster processing times both day and  night.  We 
>>anticipate even more improvements in the next iteration (in a couple of 
>>months).  Please let me know if you notice improvements and we can celebrate 
>>together!
>> 
>>Book quality reports:  Submitting a book quality report is now much easier.  
>>Simply sign into Bookshare, pull up the book, click on “report book quality 
>>issue” (in the upper right hand corner), fill out the form, and you’re done!  
>>Yay!
>> 
>>On another note, we have a new publisher partner, Cornell University Press.
>> 
>>Alisa K. Moore
>>Volunteer Program Manager
>>Benetech
>>www.bookshare.org
>>650-352-0087
>> 
>>Join us in celebrating our 10th Anniversary! 
>> 
>
>

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