ISSCIO December Blog: Recounting 2011

It is quite emotional to be writing the last blog of the year 2011. Another year has passed for the Intellectual Property Portal ISSCIO.com. Many things were achieved in the life of the site and some - experienced a backlash.

January - February

ISSCIO has started its path in 2011 with the increased emphasis on the new gTLD Topics and many functional additions to the pages, such as adding News and Links sections to the Topics.It is early to talk about success or failure of the News and Links sections: there were just some contributed by experts, yet we would like to consider it as a space for the future useful additions. From January the main workload and responsibility for the website transferred to myself, yet greatly supported and supervised by Lucas.

March

The biggest black spot of the year 2011 was, of course, the earthquake of March 11 that took lives of more than 20 000 people in Japan and left the northern part of the country in rattles, and the aftermath of herein. As an immediate result, General Manager of ISSCIO Lucas got stuck in the airport for 2 days on his flight to San Francisco; and I myself had to walk for 7 hours to reach my house with the transportation system in Tokyo and surrounding areas collapsed. Although we wish to think we could quickly restore the work on the site, we must admit this was the time when the work was going the slowest.

In March, ICANN approved the .XXX domain which until recently continued to be one of the most popular topics in ISSCIO.

April - July

Consequent months showed some positive improvements for ISSCIO in terms of increased popularity in Google. Furthermore, we implemented a clearer concept of ISSICO: “FIND”, “BE FOUND”, “CONNECT” that, we hope, explains better the essence of the site.

August - December

In the second half of the year we also included the Featured Topics, along with Twitter posts on ISSCIO front page. We want to believe that featuring on the front page heps the companies listed in ISSCIO acquire new clients, while the Twitts provide with the most current news.

We proudly acknowledge there were over 100 topic editions this year alone for contributing to which we are very grateful to our clients and colleagues.

Last, but not least, Thank you for your continuous support, participation and contributions to the site! We wish you all the very best in your business and personal life!

Olga Yevetska

ISSCIO Operations Manager