More bloggers blogging on my blog!
What I’d do differently if I had to start my blog again would be to set it up differently from the beginning or use different software so I could have other women blogging here too with their own blogs on my domain.
I would love to have other women here blogging about things I don’t know that much about or don’t have time for such as fashion, parenting, pregnancy, shopping, etc.
If I remember right wordpress can be set up for multiple bloggers, but I didn’t set it up that way to begin with and I don’t think it can be changed now. The other option would be to use drupal.
But since I’m not going to start all over again, my options are limited. What I may do is install another wordpress blog only with multiple bloggers and then just link it a lot to this one, so that they seem to all be part of the same thing. I wonder if that will work? I’ll have to try it sometime.
I’ll still have to figure out how to find other women bloggers to blog about what I can’t, I don’t know that many other people so that could still be a challenge. One thing at a time though.
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on July 25th, 2006 at 8:42 pm
That’s been the hardest part with my http://PetLvr.com/blog/ … trying to get co-contributors (multiple bloggers) to contribute. It’s not working for me and especially hard since blogging started to get exponentially more popular over the past year. I’m not sure what to do with the people who are still being credited as co-contributors, but do nothing. Oh well. Food for thought!
on July 26th, 2006 at 7:58 pm
I’m in the same boat. Since my main blog does very well I know that being a contributor is a good opportunity for people to be seen, to have their work seen, etc. butfinding the right people who understand this is difficult. In the future they will wish they’d jumped on the opportunity. It sounds harsh maybe but doing too much spoon feeding of these reluctant bloggers is just not something I want to spend my time doing.
on July 27th, 2006 at 1:36 am
I think you made a very important point. Embedding co-bloggers who expand the blog’s vatiety of topics and meanings can be a constitutive step to make a blog even more attractive.
on July 27th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
That’s a good idea, I haven’t thought about that idea yet but it could be a great thing!
on July 28th, 2006 at 5:02 am
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on July 29th, 2006 at 4:04 am
It’s a great idea - I hope you figure it out so we can have more women benefiting from the sharing aspect.
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on July 31st, 2006 at 7:07 pm
I’m a girl! I blog! Pick me! That’s a lot of !’s, sorry, but I think it is a great idea. Maybe you could just start out hosting a few blog carnivals and meet fellow women bloggers that way.
on August 9th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
you might want to look into simply gathering a collection of blogs already out there and creating a section of your site where their syndicated entries get re-published. That way, any blogger can have their own website and keep whatever they’ve already set up, but you can still create a strong community with them and have their voices represented on your site.
You seem to be using wordpress, and it does allow you to create an area that re-publishes rss feeds. You could look into finding an extension and a theme that creates this.
If you did this, it would let you build the community you’re talking about without the need to offer tech support for all the other bloggers you’re “hosting” because you won’t be hosting them. You’d just be “re-broadcasting” their rss feed of their own entries.
The only thing it requires is for the other bloggers to publish their rss feeds. most blogging software already does this or is easy to implement. (you for example have RSS feeds for your comments already here, and you’ve got an rss feed for your entire blog too, which i see in your meta section in your links)
Anyway, hope these ideas help.
I’m just passing through and saw this entry. 