Study abroad stories

Dear Studyabroad blog competition participants!

Thank you very much for participating our blog competition! You have written extremely nice and interesting blogs. All together 180 persons participated in the competiotion writing close to 400 blogposts. Some very exciting stories have been documented here.

It's very difficult to pick a winner out of so many hardworking and gifted communicators. There were many who would have desired the prize. After a careful consideration, we have decide... (more)

We have worked hard to improve studyabroadstories.com and we are happy to introduce some new features that will help you to see how you are doing and what others have been up to. This is a short summary of what is new on the site. If you have any thoughts or new features in mind, please leave a comment in the comment section below.

Featured posts

The most visible improvement is that you can now get your posts featured on the site. This can give a real boost for your blog. Featured posts c... (more)

As you may have noticed already, we have enabled facebook style like button and similar commenting system on feed page! Now communicating is much easier and accessible.

The messaging system has also been improved. Now you can send messages to groups of friends. It's better than before but it's still not quite there yet as what comes to usability. The goal is to get gmail style easy and intuitive messaging tool.

Facebook login and registering is a work in progress. There has been a few glit... (more)

Should we enable the rich text formatting plugin or keep it as it is. Does the plain text editing tool register paragraph changes?

This should be a new paragraph. But is it in reality, we shall see.

The site is now online and all new users are welcome to join in. The interface is still under development and there are a few bumps here and there, but all known issues are under work. Feedback is always welcome, especially if you stumble into some problems in the interface or functions with the site.

You can give feedback in the site development group discussion areas or you can address a message here to Kari Jääskeläinen or Ilkka Mäkinen. Be sure to add the administrators to your list of co... (more)