Dogster Site News and Updates

Woof and meow!

Dogster, Inc. (that’s the silly name we gave our company) is overwhelmed by the passionate usage and growth we’re experiencing in our community. After 2 years of having no choice to do it on our own, we’re finally in a position where we can offer some wonderful full-time positions. We think it would be ideal if these jobs were filled by community members or friends of friends so if you or anyone you know would be interested please apply!

We are actively seeking to fill the following:

• We are looking for a Community Manager extraordinaire to work directly with us in nurturing, responding to and helping the community grow in a wonderful fun way. Meet Randi, our new Community Manager.
• We are looking for 2 1 web application engineers that can code PHP and SQL as well as use javascript, CSS, DOM and are familiar with *nix web serving environments. If you are passionate about making web applications for a fun loving community, Dogster, Inc., is the place for you.

Dogster is an equal opportunity employer. Experiences and qualifications are important but a desire to learn share and grow with us is paramount. More than just salary, benefits and equity, team members will receive respect and have a great opportunity to grow right along with us. We are located in sunny Potrero Hill, San Francisco, and these positions will require working out of our office on a daily basis.

Open positions are always posted on our jobs page. Come bark and meow with us!

(Photo credit: Petey!)

Due to popular demand we have increased the amount of group photos from 10 to 30! We’re so happy so many groups want to share more photos!

On a related note we are working hard to add a custom forum for each Group. So in a couple weeks Group admins can decide if they want their group to have Messaging, A Forum or both! Woooooofs!

And a bark-out to For the love of Pugs Group who now have over 800 members and are gowing fast! Some of these groups are almost littel Dogsters in their own right which we think is supercalifragilisticexpidogidocious!

We are barking mad to being launching our Dogster Dog Blog. It’ll cover all topics dogs and Dogster. Our editor Joy Ward will be posting a couple entries every day so if you’re reading this, I’ll bet you 5 dog biscuits you’ll want to bookmark it or subscribe and come back often. Joy’s great so feel free to drop here a line and introduce yourself.

Woof woof! What with the state of spam these days we’re hearing more than we’d like that mail clients or spam blockers are pushing emails from us into Bulk or Spam folders. We’ve tried contacting AOL and yahoo and it’s like trying to get a Jack Russel to sit still.

To help, we’ve prepared a list of tips on how to ensure our emails go to your Inbox.

We’ll be doing all we can to stop this. One of the biggest surprises about becoming a popular website is that it’s very easy from going from sending 10,000 emails a month to 250,000. And even though we only send requested, opt-in emails, the big mail companies don’t seem to be sniffing closely enough to know we’re not the bad guys.

If you are having problems, This should help.