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31st
Jul

There is a new club in town (well 9rules town) and I am announcing it here. Blog club has a few simple rules and basically involves 9rules members posting about other communities. Every two weeks a different community will be picked and then during the second week from the Sunday to the Wednesday the blog club participants will write a post about blog club. Anyone who participates will get a mention here on Friday.

This is the first blog club, so for me if only I partcipate it doesn’t matter greatly. i’ve had a fair few interested so hope to see some more blog club posts about. This time it’s the Anime community being featured in blog club. I have yet to decide what my post is going to be, but it will be appearing either tomorrow or Wednesday (depends when I get out of the pile of code I’ve been living in for a few weeks). There are no rules really for blog club, just that you post about the blogs in that community. What the post is will be entirely up to the blogger and the only rule on that is that it has come from that communtiy. The hope is that through this non-community members will start to discover communities in 9rules they haven’t before.

At this point I am going to go over the 9rules communtiies a little. If you have a look at the list you will see there is about everything you could possibly ever want to read about. The site at 9rules has developed to make the most of the communtiies. Every community is like a group within 9rules where featured blogs happen and the members link up to do joint community things. Blog club sees 9rules members in different communities (some are in multiple ones - like Diary of a website is in design and commentary) and blog club sees for one post only focusing on other 9rules members in different communtities. The communities being looked at are starting with Anime and going through the list as it appears on 9rules.

That’s blog club then. I hope you enjoy the change in track and discover the other communities through the 9rules blog club members.

8 Responses

31st
Jul

[…] I started to write this post with an introduction to the whole ‘Blog Club’ idea, then when I was about three paragraphs in, Tammie beat me to the punch. Seeing as how this idea was her baby in the first place, and I don’t think I can explain it any better, I point you in the direction of the linked post for more information. […]

31st
Jul

[…] I could sit here for half an hour trying to think of a great way to introduce one of 9rules’ little unofficial project “The Blog Club” or I could already direct you to […]

1st
Aug

I don’t know… busy busy busy :)

2nd
Aug

[…] This idea was first initiated by Tammi Lister (aka Karmatosed) from Diary of a website to basically get to know the 9Rules communities better, she posted about this yesterday introducing Blog Club and our first community to talk about The Anime Community. A quick quote from her introductory post will possibly give you a better definition: […]

3rd
Aug

[…] I have made some good friends through 9rules (you know who you are), and when Karmatosed introduced “Blog Club,” I was all over it. Blog Club is sort of  like a book club–a catagory is set, everyone reads those blogs, then posts about the blogs, and then reads other posts by blog club members. Of course, the catagories are 9rules catagories, and the sites are 9rules sites. Would a 9rules club be run any other way? […]

4th
Aug

[…] So imagine my surprise late Monday night when I checked FeedDemon (I was supposed to be working on a paper) and saw the members implemented The Blog Club, starting with the Anime Community. Tam, from Diary of a Website, explained it well: There is a new club in town (well 9rules town) and I am announcing it here. Blog club has a few simple rules and basically involves 9rules members posting about other communities. Every two weeks a different community will be picked and then during the second week from the Sunday to the Wednesday the blog club participants will write a post about blog club. Anyone who participates will get a mention here on Friday. […]

16th
Aug

[…] So it’s time for the second Blog Club. This week’s community is Apple (that’s the computer company, not the fruit). If you can’t remember what Blog Club is all about, go here […]

17th
Aug

[…] Right, so as some of you know, some of the 9rules members, myself included hold a blog club every fortnight to highlight part of the 9rules community. The first community we did was on Anime. This fortnight’s blog club highlight is on the 9rules Apple Community. […]

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