Nandini from Born Rich sent me an invitation last night to join the newly launched Instablogs Community.
According to Ankit’s statement, “Instablogs Community in simple words is a personalized platform that endeavors to bring bloggers and readers closer. We do it by keeping the focus on the readers and actually making them a part of the whole blogging process.
The Instablogs Community has a plethora of social tools, which not only empower readers but also help them to become writers themselves. The new version encourages better communication between writers and readers and symbolizes the crux of ‘Citizen Journalism’ or ‘Participatory Journalism’ in its true sense, i.e. ‘Journalism by the people, for the people’.
With growing number of blogs each day (3 million blogs are added every month), new writers taking up blogging are not able to succeed as easily as few years ago. Two of the biggest problems faced by new writers are technical knowledge with respect to blogging and getting an active readership for their new blogs. Instablogs Community has stepped up to solve these two problems for new authors by providing a very user friendly interface which makes submitting an article as easy as sending an email, and providing many social media tools which will help writers to socialize with other members easily and build a steady readership very quickly. Even existing bloggers can benefit by integrating their existing blogs with the Instablogs Community.”
In essence, Instablogs has created a forum where ”any Citizen Journalist to come report/analyze/discuss the news and events in a democratic fashion and turn his individual point of view into a public opinion.”
This looks like a good way to see the latest posts from the over 100 Instablog Community Blogs on one easy to navigate page, where the posts are arranged by topic headings.
