First week of Ecoamigable

For the first phase we developed the site with Joomla 1.5, Sobi (for the business directory), Jomfish (the site is available in Spanish, English and German) and Community Builder (User Management). We used a Rocketheme template that we adjusted to our design needs. We started with about 80 companies in the industries of Renewable Energies, Energy efficiency, Water Treatment, Recycling, Environmental Education,Engineering and Consulting; that we manually entered. We then wrote personal emails to almost all of them, at least those who publish their emails or offer a contact form.

After one week the response is much higher than expected. We have already more than 10 users who are now updating their profiles themselves. Some are even interested to start publishing their own content on the site, a feature that we planned for early next year. The nice thing is that a personal network is starting to develop as well. So I am exchanging emails with Roberto fromPuerto Varas who engineers heating systems with geothermal power, and meet with Ricardo, specialist for air quality analysis, next week. We realised that we are not only both members of the Chilean-German Chamber of Commerce but are also located in the same office building.