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BlogCatalog Blogger Advocates
Posted by Jaybetee • 8/05/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: blogcatalog, blogcatalog community, blogger, blogger advocates
BlogCatalog is looking for some Blogger Advocates (or whatever other great name we can think of for the position). The purpose of these advocates would be to promote the work of BlogCatalog bloggers on the BlogCatalog blog. This could be done through highlight posts that describe a BC blogger and his/her blog, or through posts discussing a certain topic which then refer readers to members’ posts about that topic or a related topic. The main goal here is to promote the writing of BC members and send more traffic to their blogs.
We have come up with a list of 10 topic categories for advocates:
1. Family
2. Arts & Entertainment
3. Sports
4. Politics
5. News (Current Events)
6. Business
7. Science & Technology
8. Health & Fitness
9. Food & Drink
10. Lifestyle
What are the benefits of becoming a Community Advocate?
1.Increased exposure. Your posts will include a byline with either a headshot or your avatar, a link to your blog(s), a link to your BC profile, and a link to your twitter account.
2.The posts you write will not only appear on the BlogCatalog blog, but will also be rotated onto the BC homepage. The links and the positioning of your work on the BC homepage are a great way to gain more visibility in the community and on the web, and we hope will end up leading to more traffic for your own blog.
3.A professional relationship with BlogCatalog can help validate bloggers trying to make names for themselves or trying to make bigger names for themselves. Making connections with members of the BlogCatalog team and other social media professionals we work with can help strengthen your position in the world of blogging/social media.
4.Opportunities such as the chance to attend blogging conferences and other relevant social media events.
If you are interested in becoming a BC Blogger Advocate, please email jason at blogcatalog.com to let us know. In the email please include your BC username and the category for which you would like to be an advocate.
Note: If you already sent an email about becoming a category editor, we have received them. This discussion is referring to the same position; we have just decided to call it something else. If we have not contacted you personally about your email, please be patient. We have received a large number of emails and are working our way through them. There is no need to send another email if you previously sent one.
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send it to me jason at blogcatalog.com
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I could occasionally write about science and technology, like twice a month perhaps, but not enough to take an editor/advocate position.-
Don't worry about the frequency, we could always have more than one person per category. We can take everything on a case by case basis so don't worry about how many posts you can do in what period of time. If your interested let us know and we'll see what works out.
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Okay.
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I previously sent in an email based on the assumption there would be a blogging tips category, but I see that there is no such a category in the list above. In fact there are no "blogging " categories at all.
I also note there isn't a category for for personal development, personal growth, relationships, self improvement, or self help. These would be my second choices provided no blogging categories are going to be featured.
Could you please clarify what the Lifestyle category (10 above) pertains to in terms of scope and range?
In reference to
2.The posts you write will not only appear on the BlogCatalog blog, but will also be rotated onto the BC homepage. The links and the positioning of your work on the BC homepage are a great way to gain more visibility in the community and on the web, and we hope will end up leading to more traffic for your own blog.
At present the blog of those who are community donors are rotated on the front (home) page of BC. Will this be changing?-
There will be a page separate from this one for blogging tips and information. Also we are not opposed to having additional categories on the community page; so if you have a suggestion, please let me know.
Ha, we put lifestyle on there because when we got to the last one I asked Tony what we could put there that pretty much encompasses everything we may have left out and Lifestyle seemed to fit the bill.
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No the community donors will remain on the homepage, we will be adding another section where the posts will appear.
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I think you should add a writing category too--for fiction and nonfiction. There are a lot of blogs that fall under this category (mine included). -
Our thinking was that writing/literature would be under the arts section. I think writing could be it's own section if it dealt more with the writing process and getting published, etc. and not simply reviewing literature.
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There will be a page separate from this one for blogging tips and information.
Thanks for the reply. That's my first area of interest and where my expertise lies. Unless you say otherwise I will not send in another email as Angie has already acknowledged receipt of mine ( re: blogging tips & information & online relationships) in the earlier thread.
I would like to see personal development, personal growth, relationships, self improvement and self help added to the categories. That's the range my second area of interest is but I did not include anything about that in the email I sent in response to the earlier thread. Please let me know if I have to email again to say that.
I would also like to see Environment (conscious living, green living), Nature & Outdoor Recreation, Photography, and Travel added as categories too. -
Nature and the Outdoors would be a good heading for most of that, while Photography would fall under Arts & Entertainment, I suspect.
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i think that a personal development category is worth adding. we discussed parenting and decided that would fall under the family category. I think a nature and outdoors is worth an add too.
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Guys and gals, I am out for the night, but i will take a look at this first thing in the morning and respond to any questions/comments then. have a great night (or day depending on your locale).
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Sent an email. Have a great time.-
Thanks
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Hi Jay, I would love to do this if I was not going to be on my hike.-
well let us know when you're back and ready to go!
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Would rather like to get involved with this. Only problem is can't decide on a category. Ponder ponder.
Do you envisage a place for category editors that "float" between categories?-
I see no reason why we wouldn't allow advocates to post in more than one category. the idea is simply to create a team that will promote the good work done by bloggers on BC. I think the blog has been underutilized in this capacity.
If you want to help share the work of BC bloggers, then please let us know. Don't worry about fitting into a specific category. -
Sure, you'll get involved in this but you won't play with the rest of us any more.
[sniffle] Come back, Polybore!
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I would like to give this a whirl on a irregular basis.-
shoot me an email! If you have a category in mind, let me know. As I just said in my reply to Polybore though, we're aimed at gathering a team to promote the work of BC bloggers so don't feel like you have to fit into one topic.
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Here is the list of topics that I just emailed you with
Personal Development in particular
Personal blogs
Observational Humour type things
Psychology
Mental Health
Outdoors and Nature
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You might consider a writing/publishing category. You do have more than 8,000 blogs listed in that category...-
Yes. Melinda suggested that earlier in the thread too and I think it is an excellent idea. Thanks for the suggestion.
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I agree, especially as books and getting published seems to be a hot topic at the moment.
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Especially as you've currently got Music and Writing in the same category. I think there are far too many of each for them not to deserve their own.
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How about a Web Design section?-
we thought that web stuff would fall under the science and tech area. do you think it needs its own category?
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how about a sexuality/health section????
can I apply or am i already disqualified?-
i think that could go under health and fitness. why would you be disqualified? please send an email is you're interested.
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awesome
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I would be interested in this, but honestly don't have a clue what category I would be interested in.
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that seems to be what a lot of people have said and we are much more concerned with developing a group of people interested in promoting the work of good bloggers on BC and less concerned with having people for a specific category. If you are interested, let us know and if you want to spotlight bloggers and topics from more than one category, that's fine with us.
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Just so you all know, I appreciate everyone's interest in this and have received a ton of new emails. As I'd like to respond to each of you personally rather than send out a mass email, please be patient and know that I am going to do my best to get back to you all ASAP. My goal is to have contacted everyone who sent an email by next Tuesday or Wednesday.
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When you say business what does that mean? Is that something related to shares & stocks -
Shares and stocks would definitely fall under business. Business news, business developments...anything pertaining to the world of business. For example news.google.com/news?pz=1&topic=b&ict=ln
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hoho nice move!-
thanks, i think...?
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That's great... I am sending an email right now! -
you need to add a personal blog category please , then I will definately consider it -
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You want people to agree to promote Blog Catalog users to Blog Catalog users? And you pay for this? Sign me up! -
Nate where did you get the impression this is a paying gig?
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Maybe he got it for what's stated in the OP of the first thread posted on this topic.
" As of now, we are asking for 5 volunteer editors to get things going.
FYI, we are discussing ways to compensate the editors in the future. At this point, we have been discussing options such as a simple pay-per-post system or a system that would take into account statistics such as: traffic, bounce rate, # of comments, etc. We may do a combo of the 2 where editors would be piad per post, but then have extra incentive-based pay or prizes based on the stats I mentioned.
In any case, right now we are looking for volunteer editors and hope community members will be interested as we'd strongly prefer to have these editors come from within BC rather than recruiting bloggers from outside the community."
From: www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/would-anyone-like-to-be-a-bc-category-edi...
That being said I think that may have changed.
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Its really good idea. I have sent the email. Hope to hear from you guys soon. -
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i've sent an email also, i'd love to help out! also, i agree with the comments about personal blogs... there definitely needs to be a category for that -
great is there anything special for conservation
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This is definitely an amazing idea to promote the work of BC Bloggers -
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So .. did you guys pick anybody yet and, what category was I going to be classified as?
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Empire Builder ... lol
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What About Blogging Category? (blog Tips/resources?)
I will love to be here.
I think this is mandatory and most important-
we're doing that elsewhere on its own page
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IMO, ideally, every category/subcategory in the directory should have an editor (I still like 'editor' better than 'advocate') whose task is to sift through the sheer mass of blogs and highlight the best blogs and posts, sort of like dmoz.org was meant to be once upon a time. Is that a possible future development that you guys at BC are maybe thinking of?-
that is exactly what we're working towards...but not for every single category/subcategory though...well maybe one day
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Good to hear that. It just struck me while looking at the list of selected categories above that they should not stray too much from the BC directory structure (and they don't), or you would effectively be creating a 2nd directory tree, which would only confuse new (and long-term) BC members.
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well as we go forward I'm working with our lead programmer and designer to make sure everything is structured in a way that will be most beneficial and most user friendly for members
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Anyone made the cut yet?
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yes actually I have a list of people we need to contact. I know I am behind schedule, but I want to make sure we move ahead with this in the best possible way. I should, however, stop my current project and get busy contacting some more people. Thanks for the inspiration CR!
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Yeah get on with it! I have had a few ideas on people to write about, but my interest is fadinggggggggggggggggggggg
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Oh no! I'm writing you an email now! Stay by your computer
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As if I leave it...
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@Jaybetee
G'day. I think the concept of BC members acting as volunteer BC Editors or Advocates is an interesting one. However, I have decided that my health is too frequently in a state of flux to volunteer to contribute to BC by volunteering. Please remove my email application from the mix. Thanks, in advance. -
How do you get a blogcatalog email? Like yourname at blogcatalog.com-
jason @ blogcatalog.com
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you work for BlogCatalog
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How about a mental health one?
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Seems that there might be some need for that at times... LOL!-
Already asked about that, look up there
I want it.
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Nobody asked for links, I am pretty sure the admin know how to look at your blogs if they chose to do so.
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How do I blog with good and correct. Please be given instructions
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What does that have to do with this discussion?
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I am already doing it with the Change The World Thread & Group. Perhaps this is a jumpstart to the program. I will send an email. Thanks.
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thanks for the marvellous attempt. best of luck! -
What did I say wrong? -
'comment removed by the community.' LOL! -
When is the next information bulletin on this Mr JBT?
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that its true-
What is?
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Hey everyone who has sent an email thanks. I had to wipe my PC the other day and then re-import all my emails so I'm a little behind on corresponding with everyone.
I am working on a letter to all of you today and will have it out before the end of the week. -
I would like to get involved under the politics category-
send me an email!
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Great concept. Best wishes to all.-
I got the E-mail, super excited for a chance to get really involved!!! Ok so I'm a nerd, what can I say?
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