Happy New 2010! Check out the new WeGoWeGo.com

Five months have passed since we introduced WeGoWeGo.com to the Toronto community. With the New Year beginning, we wanted to share with you our progress to-date and more importantly introduce exciting new features!

Here are some highlights from the past few months:

• We had over 10,000 unique visitors come to the site since the launch of our Beta
• We have tripled our monthly visitors traffic
• We hit 1200 daily page views just before year-end
• We completed a research study with the Humber College PR Program that helped us shape the next phase of WeGoWeGo.com.

As a results of the enlightening Humber College study, we are pleased to introduce to you the newly improved WeGoWeGo site.

Some of the key new features include:

New Home Page Design

• Facebook Connect functionality that allows for easy login and connection with your friends on WeGoWeGo
• Easy voting functionality of key city events
• Hot events widget that features key events as decided by users
• Top 10 activities and upcoming events of the day widgets
• Twitter feed integration
• Mobile phone special event updates
• Social share functionality
• Simplification of the search categories

Enhanced Venue and Event Pages

• Similar events and venue recommendations engine has been implemented allowing users to find relevant events even faster
• Enhanced My Planner (previously called My WeGoWeGo) functionality
• Other usability tweaks (see if you can spot any)

I hope you like the improvements and I encourage you to let us know your thoughts. If you have any suggestions or if you spot a bug, please let us know at support@wegowego.com.

Cheers

WeGoWeGo Team

Get weekly event listings

We're trying something new. We're pushing weekly event listings out each week at http://wegowego.wordpress.com/. We think you might find this to be a helpful starting point, or just a nice reminder.

You can subscribe and get an events list emailed to you each week, or you can use an rss reader.

If you'd like your events to appear in the posting, all you have to do is add your events to WeGoWeGo. Please give us one week in advance. If you have mulitple events to add, contact support at wegowego.com and we'll help.

Fuze Toronto

Last night we had the privilege of presenting at Fuze Toronto, a marketing and advertising meetup for professionals interested in new technologies. We didn't win the competition, but won a few more dedicated fans of WeGoWeGo. The event was held at Skylounge, which is the patio area behind Proof The Vodka Bar at the Intercontinental Hotel on Bloor. It's a swanky little joint. Watch out for the $10 pints though. As the waitress said, "you gotta love hotel bar prices."

We've gotten pretty comfortable talking with designers and developers through all the tech meetups we've been to, but this was our first opportunity to take WeGoWeGo to a marketing and advertising crowd. There are some interesting differences!

We gathered some helpful feedback, met a lot of cool people, won some new members for the WeGoWeGo community, and practiced our pitch. All in a good night's work.

Rails Pub Night - small projects for equity

Tomorrow is the third Monday of the month, and that means Rails Pub Night at the Rhino on Queen St W. We'll be getting up on chairs again as we did about a year and a half ago. Last time we stood up to pitch the idea of WeGoWeGo. This time we're happy to say that the site is up and running. We're looking for a designer and a developer who are interested in helping us build out a few more key features.

Since we still have our day jobs and we're bootstrapping (read: not funded) we're not expecting you to jump all-in and join us full time for equity alone. That would be pretty cool, of course, but we've all got bills to pay. Sustainability is one of our prime directives: that means working toward success in a way that can be sustained for as long as it takes.

We have several features planned, each of which could make up a small development module/design project. If you or someone you know is interested in a small dev/design project for equity, consider working on one of our projects. We'll be explaining a little more at Rails Pub, or drop us an email at partners at WeGoWeGo dot com. Twitter works, too, of course (usually :p).

DCT21 and StartUp Drinks - shaking hands and trading ideas

It's been a busy week! DemoCamp Toronto #21 on Wednesday was a great success. At first it didn't seem right to be in a lecture hall instead of a dingy pub (the usual venue), but this was the first democamp where I could actually hear all of the presentations and read what was on the screen. Pretty good things to be able to do at a demo, it turns out! The lack of beer was more than made up for later in the evening when we decended on the nearby unsuspecting Fion McCools.

Thursday night was StartUp Drinks at Pogue Mahone on College and Bay. We had a chance to talk to all sorts of interesting people in the Toronto startup community. We were trying to make as many connections in hopes that someone could help us advance WeGoWeGo further. We're looking for a UI designer/front-end coder/usability expert and a rails dev or two to join our team. We're also looking for funding as we've bootstrapped ourselves to this point. There are still some important features that we'd like to add to our site as soon as possible to make it the powerful offering that we've envisioned.

One step at a time, as they say.

Official WeGoWeGo T-shirts

Who says you can't have your own swag? Look at us, we are just starting and we have our own T-shirts and dancing shoes!

That's right, anyone can now be a proud owner of an official WeGoWeGo T-shirt. Check it out below.
What's really cool, is that you can customize each shirt to make it your own...

BTW, we have little choice in terms of the cost and would love to hand them out for FREE, but not just yet.

We can however give out a couple.

For the first two people who comment on this post, will get a T-Shirt each! Be quick!

DemoCamp Toronto 21

Now that our site is fully launched, we're ready to present WeGoWeGo at

DemoCamp Tororonto 21 @ The Velma Rogers Theatre
July 28, 2009 - 6:00pm-9:00pm
333 Bloor St E., Toronto, ON

Our purpose is to help spread the word that our site is live and to have a good time networking with other like-minded techie/entrepreneur/business types. We're hoping to gather some helpful feedback and suggestions for future feature development, design optimization and growth strategies.

We're also hoping to find designers and developers who share our passion for urban adventure and would like to join our team.

DemoCamp Guelph July 15 - We're back!

It's been exactly a year since our last visit to Guelph DemoCamp. We've learned a lot since then and we revamped WeGoWeGo.com user experience to be much more intuitive and fun.

We are happy to come back to Guelph DemoCamp 10 (Info @bit.ly/dcg10 ) to give an update on our progress.

See you then!