http://etsynews.com Unofficial news for Etsy's buyers and sellers. Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:46:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en According to this just-published Storque article, Rob Kalin/Rokali will be returning in 2010 as Etsy's CEO. Maria Thomas, acting CEO for nearly two years, will be leaving Etsy. Here is the article (authored by pesmou and Rokali) in it's entirety: Rob Kalin, a.k.a. Rokali, is an Etsy founder. As 2010 ... http://etsynews.com/921/big-news-rokali-returning-as-etsy-ceo/ Editorial Notice: After a long and unplanned hiatus during which UEN experienced a serious loss of data going back about 7 months, I am attempting an update with a fresh article (and hoping it stays put). ~~~~~~~~~~ On October 20, 2009, Etsy announced a change to its DOs & DON’Ts (D&Ds), which are ... http://etsynews.com/913/update-to-etsy-dos-and-donts-effective-as-of-october-27-2009/ Over the weekend (March 15), Etsy published a Storque article announcing some changes to the billing procedure, which included the removal of payment minimums, and the implementation of both an overdue notification process and the future plan to implement the use of a collection agency for accounts 90 days, or ... http://etsynews.com/910/billing-policy-changes-notification-errors-and-apologies/ The Head of Etsy's Product Team has posted an update on their progress and projects for the coming months. Source: The Storque Sara recaps the changes from the past several months including Google Analytics, beta testing of API, the Etsy Shop application on Facebook, and changes to the RSS feeds. She also mentions ... http://etsynews.com/907/talking-product-with-etsy%e2%80%99s-vp-of-product-sara-hicks/ Source: The Storque Etsy is conducting a short survey for sellers about payment options. Click here to take the survey. It is about 3 minutes in length. The survey closes in one week, http://etsynews.com/905/etsy-seller-payment-survey/ Source: The Storque Etsy will be offline for approximately 20 minutes at 2am EDT, on Thursday March 12. (tomorrow/tonight, depending on your time zone) Follow this link to convert to your local time zone. http://etsynews.com/903/unscheduled-site-maintenance-thursday-morning-312/ Source: this Storque article After a short period of beta testing, all sellers now have the option to pay their Etsy bill with paypal. You can pay the full bill or make partial payments by filling in any amount, just as you did with credit card payments. You will now see an ... http://etsynews.com/900/etsy-bill-payment-with-paypal-released-today/ Today the Etsy search has made several small changes. Search dropdown menu choice has been made persistent. Previously, when performing a search under Vintage for example, the search dropdown menu would switch back to Handmade after clicking to view an item in the search results. Your dropdown menu choice is now ... http://etsynews.com/898/changes-to-etsy-search/ Etsy's Chief Technical Officer Chad Dickerson wrote an update today on Etsy's technical progress and plans for the coming months. Key points included: Monitoring and Communication we rolled out a sophisticated monitoring system in November that today enables us to keep an eye on 700 services running on over 170 pieces of hardware, ... http://etsynews.com/896/update-with-etsy-cto-chad-dickerson/ This is just a short post to introduce our readers to craftopolis.com/, another new third-party site with useful tools for Etsy users. Craftopolis currently has a treasury search tool called the Treasure Hunt. This lets you type in your shop name and see a list of all the treasuries ... http://etsynews.com/894/introducing-craftopolis-a-new-third-party-etsy-tool/