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Blogcatalog Teams Up with Broowaha, a Citizen Journalism Site

15 Comments by Jason Teitelman on October 17th, 2009

Blogcatalog and Broowaha a community of citizen journalists who publish online a growing citizen newspaper today announced that Blogcatalog has become an investor and partner in Broowaha. Yesterday, Broowaha launched a beta version of its new site with expanded functions and improved user interface.

Tony Berkman, the CEO of BlogCatalog indicated that the sites complement each other well with significant synergies and efficiencies that will be achieved quickly. He has been looking for a platform that could serve Blogcatalog’s community’s members who have a desire to extend or expand their writings as journalists or as creative writers. This led to discussions about partnering with Broowaha which was founded a few years ago by Ariel Vardi as a citizen newspaper with a local news orientation.

Tony explains “we intend to work with Ariel to bring new features and services to the Broowaha writing community and to integrate the site with Blogcatalog. We see a bright future for online citizen newspapers and believe that many of our members will join broowaha’s writer community. This will provide them with additional exposure as writers and an additional community to interact with and where they can improve their writing skills.”

Ariel points to a major challenge that Broowaha faced that will be addressed by the partnership with Blogcatalog. “We had developed a strong community of dedicated and avid citizen journalists. However, we needed to gain more exposure for them and the site in order to grow. Without the traffic to the site, all the good writing would receive less recognition than it deserved. The opportunity for us is now and so we acted. Blogcatalog is one of the best sites for serving a community. It has a large membership of writers and is one of the most visited web sites in the world. In my mind a perfect fit.”

According to Tony, “Ariel has the vision for the site which we believe in. We intend to listen to him and the Community to continue to improve the site. We will add our resources to help make the site a preeminent destination for writers who are journalists as well as creative authors to showcase their work and for readers who are seeking the best citizen newspaper."

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Responses to "Blogcatalog Teams Up with Broowaha, a Citizen Journalism Site "

DaneMorgan says:

Saturday, October 17th, 2009 at 10:13 pm

So is that an open beta? Do we need an invite? Can you get us hooked up if we do?

DaneMorgan says:

Saturday, October 17th, 2009 at 10:45 pm

Never mind. Open beta, I'm all signed up and already found a cool story on microfunded journalism that I wouldn't have otherwise known about.

Theresa111 says:

Sunday, October 18th, 2009 at 12:41 am

What is a beta version, please? Cannot wait to check it out. Growing good businesses is a beautiful thing for us all. It's a win-win situation.

Theresa111 says:

Sunday, October 18th, 2009 at 02:33 am

Yeah, yeah, it's three hours later. I really looked. :D

Rich says:

Sunday, October 18th, 2009 at 08:51 pm

All right.

We chatted about this a bit in Las Vegas and I'm all in see where the experiment lands. :)

Best,
Rich

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nothingprofound says:

Monday, October 19th, 2009 at 01:55 pm

Will be interested to find out more about it.

Jaybetee says:

Monday, October 19th, 2009 at 04:15 pm

Theresa, I am sorry it took so long for me to reply :( The beat version is like a testing version. It is not the final iteration of the site, but is a working version that is up so that we can keep testing things, find bugs and keep improving how the site functions.

Jaybetee says:

Monday, October 19th, 2009 at 04:17 pm

Rich, I am excited too. Like most things around here, it should be interesting. Thanks again for taking the time to meet with us in Vegas and connecting us with great people who provided some great insights. I know everyone on the team appreciated it and had a very nice time.

TonyB says:

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 05:41 am

@Rich, everything we do online is an experiment with a vision. The entire goal with BC is to give bloggers more opportunities - whatever those may be. For bloggers who want to get more exposure and improve writing skills - BrooWaha is the spot. Traffic is great and if you want to improve your craft and gain more exposure and credibility, BrooWaha is designed for that purpose and we'll continue to add features that expose great writing.