Bloggercamp and a Possible Change of Direction?
I’ve been pitching a fit here lately. When I initially chose bloggercamp.com as my domain name I had the intention of turning this into a community based website. I’m back at square one for this and I’m basically looking for some input/feedback. For, you guessed it, bloggers. Here is the intial idea I had for bloggercamp.com:
Bloggercamp.com the community resource for bloggers.
Users of the website would contribute their own cms’s, themes, templates, plugins, hacks, ideas, secrets, and more in a community based setting for not just WordPress but all blogging platforms(even custom ones). With ratings for all the above contribution to be dolled out by the users themselves. The site would include forums for help, chat, advice, and other web based offerings.
Why I might still do this:
I’ve yearned to run a community based website for several years, ever since I was an, albeit limited, admin at deviantart.com. Statichavoc.deviantart.com if you’re curious.
I love the interaction that community based websites have, the good, the bad, the ups the downs. It’s really an ideal situation because of the feedback that a website of that proportion retains.
I would still retain a blog for not just WordPress but for all blogging platforms etc, and I am entertaining the idea of user submissions for stories (a la digg style) but with more administrative control.
Suggestions?
It might take some money(outsourcing of coding) and a lot of time, but if I can pull it off I think I’d have a lot more fun running that type of website than bloggercamp in its current status.
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions for this type of format for bloggers?
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communities take a lot of work to run however they can also be incredibly rewarding. If you plan on setting up a forum my best advice is be very patient and very passionate about it as chances are you’ll be talking to yourself for a long time. I’ve been there. Best of luck to a cool blog
@Bloggeries,
the idea is to have much more than a forum. visit deviantart.com and picture that just having to do with blogs!?
I like the idea. Especially since you’ll be including other platforms other than just WordPress (it gets all the press doesn’t it?). I use ExpressionEngine so it would be cool to see something like this that didn’t simply focus on WordPress.
Nice idea. Go on..For digg style submission, you can use Pligg. Thanks.
@Deron and EarnBlogger
Thanks for the encouragement, I’ve got a lot of details to work out still… i’m going to be putting together a demo of what I’m talking about and have some friends and bloggers evaluate it before it goes live. But I still have a lot left to do.