Monday, February 23, 2004
Welcome to Blogit!
Please note that the site is now accessible at its new URL: www.blogit.com.
All links to Blogging Network will continue to work in case you have existing links to your writing. That is, all links to Blogging Network will get redirected to the new Blogit site so you don't have to do anything!
Please note that you may need to sign back in via the new site www.blogit.com. If you don't remember your password, click on the link below the Sign-in section that says "Forgot your password?"
Brian
Blogit Team
Friday, February 20, 2004
Name change to Blogit on Monday!
As promised we wanted to notify you ahead of time. Blogging Network's name will change to Blogit on Monday.
However, all links to Blogging Network will continue to work in case you have existing links to your writing.
Please note that you will need to sign back in via the new site www.blogit.com. If you don't remember your password, click on the link below the Sign-in section that says "Forgot your password?"
Brian
Blogging Network Team
Thursday, February 19, 2004
Additional search features
BN members,
We have added some frequently requested features to Search.
First of all, you may now sort search results by date, which makes it easy to locate recent posts. To do this, simply click "Sort by: date" after searching.
An important note: for old posts (dated before this feature became available), posts will be sorted by the date they were last edited, rather than the date they were created.
Secondly, there is a new Search Members page that allows you to easily jump to any member's Profile page. To go to the new page, click "Search" and click the "Members" tab.
So search away!
Brian
Blogging Network
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
New feature: Changing nicknames
BN members,
It is now possible to change your BN nickname using My Account. To do this, go to My Account and click "Change nickname".
Please note that nicknames may only be changed once in a 30-day period.
And, to view a member's nickname history, go to their profile page and click "See nickname history".
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Brian
Blogging Network Team
Press requests
The Blogging Network staff gets frequent press requests from reporters. If any BN member is interested in speaking publicly about their BN experience, please email us at press@shaycom.com or leave a comment.
You can see details here for the current press request from the Washington Post.
Thanks!
Brian
Blogging Network Team
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Block List
Every account on BN has a block list. If a member is on your block list, they cannot contact you via the Blogging Network email forwarding system or add comments to your posts.
In the past, customer service has handled member requests for changes to a block list. You can now view and edit your block list directly. To do so, click "My Account" (at the top-right corner of any Blogging Network page) and click "View/edit block list".
To add a member to your block list, click their nickname below a post or comment and click "Add to Block List".
This is part of our ongoing effort to respond to BN customer requests for specific features that make their BN experience better.
Happy blocking!
Brian
Blogging Network Team
Friday, February 6, 2004
A picture of Blogging Network's rapid growth
BN members,
We wanted to share with you how Blogging Network continues to grow since being launched in January 2003, after five months in public beta.
As you can see from the Stats on the home page, there are currently well over 200,000 posts and comments. Here's a picture of how this growth occurred over the past thirteen months.
The number of posts has grown over 1,700% since January 2003.
And the number of comments has grown a whopping 16,600%. This truly conveys the strong bonds and interaction between members of the Blogging Network community.
Thank you very much for your contribution as readers and writers. The Blogging Network community wouldn't be the same without each and every one of you!
Brian
Blogging Network Team
Thursday, February 5, 2004
New name revealed
BN members,
OK, so this took a little longer than a few days. We wanted to have a logo ready before we revealed the name change that's being planned over the next two weeks. The new name for Blogging Network is:
We hope you like the new name as much as we do! It is a more active name, much more memorable, and lends itself nicely to marketing efforts to attract new members for Blogging Network.
We'll let you know once we have an exact date for the name change. There are dozens of things we need to get done before this change can occur. All links to Blogging Network will continue to work but you will need to sign back into the new site.
Brian
Blogging Network Team
Monday, January 26, 2004
Vancouver Sun covers Blogging Network extensively!
As Blogging Network continues to thrive, it is getting some great press coverage! The Vancouver Sun covered the Blogging Network extensively in Gillian Shaw's article called "Life is but a blog". Here's an excerpt:
...And so when I started following the phenomenon of blogging, where people post their thoughts, the deep and the drivel alike, in online journals, it was difficult to understand why millions of people are signing on. Who could possibly care to read what is often intensely personal information and who has the time to write it?
Lots of people, millions in fact, according to the statistics. Jupiter Research estimates about two per cent of people who are online have created a blog (short for Web log) and four per cent are reading them.
...At the Blogging Network that drive could be monetary. At www.bloggingnetwork.com, bloggers, readers and creators alike, pay a flat monthly fee of $5.95 US or $49.95 a year to use the site. Fifty per cent of that fee goes towards the people whose blogs you read. The system sets up intense competition for bloggers to top the most read list.
"What we were trying to do was come up with a venue for blogging where there would be a ready audience of readers, where there would be an incredible community and there would also be an economic incentive," said Lari, who has his own blog, readyfireaim, a twist on the dot-com days when Lari said the idea was to fire and figure out the target afterwards.
"If you wanted to blog regularly, there would be some way you would be rewarded for it."
...Lari echoed Berk's view that blogs are creating the new communities on the Web.
"There's a woman whose blog's name is Army Wife and she is dealing with life while her husband is fighting in Iraq," he said. "She has an amazing virtual support network now."
Monday, January 5, 2004
New Year, new name
Hope all of you are having a great new year! We're planning exciting new things for the Blogging Network community in 2004 including a new name for this site.
While all of us have gotten used to the name Blogging Network, it has always been a mouthful. This meant it was often abbreviated to BN. But BN.com is Barnes & Noble which this site is definitely not!
We felt it was time to find a better name. A name that was short, memorable and available. A name that captured the excitement, the drama, the competition of BN. A name that captured the incredible sense of community. A name that simply blew you away...OK, so maybe the name won't do all of this. But we do think we've found a wonderful new name. 
We'll be sharing it with you in the next few days!
Brian / Blogging Network Team
P.S. What? You want to know it right now? You don't like this teaser? Hmm...uhhh, well, how about this, we promise not to make you wait too long.
