I know. It’s a funny name. But seriously. Have you guys heard of Blogfrog before? It’s this fabulous worldwide community of bloggers out to help and support one another. Think Facebook for Bloggers. Now if you’re saying to yourself: “I don’t have time for another Facebook in my life”, never fear! One of the things I love about BF is that you can post a discussion, and click the button that says “e-mail me if people respond” and you’re done. No constant checking to see if anybody has answered you. Any responses will be sent directly to your inbox!
In a less-broad sense, each blog can have it’s very own BlogFrog community, like Vignettes does. And that’s where the magic really starts! You can get to know other Vignette readers. You can ask them questions (“Start a New Discussion”), or reply to questions others may have in the “Forum”. Looking for a perfect Pecan Pie recipe? Ask it there. Need more creative ideas for your date night? Ask it there. It’s like a little coffee shop where we can all chat and support one another. Groovy, right? I know.
I had started a community a looong time ago, but that was when I had very few readers, so it wasn’t very interactive. But we did have an exercise club that was nice. Keeping each other accountable to our workout goals and all that. This time around though, I have renewed faith that you, dear readers of Vignettes want to interact. Want to really get to know each other. Am I right? (raise your hand if I am right)
Another great bonus if you become a follower of this community, is that YOUR blog feed will show up on the feed of the community dashboard! That’s right: all the other community members will get to know you and your blog just because you’re a member! New friends, more exposure, more traffic = win, win!
One last thing that is really fabulous. Blogfrog has a “Live Chat” feature, so we can all hang out together sometimes! I plan to host chats every now and then that have some sort of a theme (and maybe even giveaways!), and I’ll try to give you plenty of notice when I do.- Our first live chat will be tonight actually (Wednesday) -so much for the plenty of notice- (But it’s summertime right? Everybody is feeling spontaneous!). The chat can be found HERE for those of you who like the show “So You Think You Can Dance?”. It will be held during the show, which starts at 8pm EST, and we can share our thoughts and play by play responses as we watch along together tonight. Can’t wait! I hope you’ll join me! Until later then…
