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Launching the Bloggers Circle

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So, after lots of conversations, consultations and recruiting a widerange of bloggers, we’re ready to launch the Bloggers Circle, thanks to the RSA. It’s intended in the spirit of constructiveness and debate. It’s open to anyone who thinks it would be useful and I hope that its initial members can find out how, why and when it works so we can continue to develop the idea.

Tonight, I emailed all of the people who’d expressed an interest as follows. If you want to get involved, just leave a comment below.

You previously expressed an interest in joining the Bloggers Circle. Since then we have been working hard to attract a range of blogs with different viewpoints and experiences to make it as interesting as possible. Thanks to the generous support and encouragement of the RSA, we’re now ready to launch.

Launch plans

  1. At this stage it’s still an experiment – and you are the pioneers that can make it work. We don’t want to set too many rules until we need to.
  2. We are ready to go from Monday, so do get stuck in so we can learn as much as possible
  3. We would really like you to submit a post once a week to get the concept up and running.
  4. As a small incentive in July, the prize for the post of the month is £100

How to take part

Submit a post up to once a week. When you write an interesting blogpost:

  1. send an email to debate@bloggerscircle.net
  2. provide a hyperlink to the post and
  3. a quick sentence of what it’s about to encourage members to write about your post

When posts have been submitted, you will receive an email at lunchtime with a list of posts you might want to write about.

Write about another post twice a month. We’d ask that you write about a post that someone has submitted to the circle at least twice a month. You don’t have to agree with it, just debate it on its merits.

  1. If you use Twitter, you can mark your Tweet #bloggerscircle and it will appear on our website
  2. The post of the month prize will be the post that gets debated by the most members of the circle. It will appear on the website to (hopefully) generate more traffic to your site.

Our website
You can see our website here: http://www.bloggerscircle.net. If you would like your photo or icon to appear on the homepage it’s very easy – just set up an account with Gravatar www.gravatar.com

As far as possible I’ve tried to use your own description of your blog on the members page. However, if I’ve got it wrong or you don’t like it, just let me know and I will change it.

If you’ve ever any suggestions for how to change / improve / strengthen the idea, do get in touch. I’m sure we can learn a lot just through trial and error.

Related posts:

  1. Bloggers circle expands
  2. 3 changes to the Bloggers Circle
  3. Bloggers Circle: week one assessment
  4. bloggers circle: month 1 assessment
  5. 10 new members of the Bloggers Circle

Comments

2 Responses to “Launching the Bloggers Circle”

  1. Mark Pack on July 17th, 2009 2:14 pm

    Good to see this taking shape and am interested in taking part.

  2. Jim Jay on July 20th, 2009 8:17 pm

    Yes, great idea – I’ve signed up so let’s see how well it works :)

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