Wednesday, September 3, 2008

BlogCatalog September Newsletter

Last week we rolled out several of the updates we have been quietly working on the past month and got a great response from the community. It was so great that we wanted to quickly go through and explain what's new in BlogCatalog.

Updates include:

Updated Blog Listings

We've cleaned up the blog detail pages to put more focus on your blog's content, what your blog is about, and similar blogs.

Neighborhoods are now Favorites

Since the creation of blog neighborhoods there has always been some confusion over just what that means, since your neighborhoods are basically just your favorites, it made sense for us to make the terminology match. Like a blog? Tag it and add it to your Favorites so you can keep up with the latest posts and easily find it later.

Manage Your Blogs

We have updated the Manage Blogs page to give you more information about the status of your blog as well as the ability to sort the order they appear on your profile should you have more than one Blog. Simply drag and drop your blogs and the order will be updated instantly. It's that easy!

BlogCatalog Mobile

did you know there was an iPhone version of BlogCatalog?! If you are an iPhone junkie like we are visit http://www.blogcatalog.com/mobile/ to learn more.

Discussion Editing

If you have ever started a BlogCatalog Discussion and realized after posting you made a mistake in the title or tags, you should appreciate that we've finally added the ability to edit the title and tags for a discussion you have created.

Default Thumbshot Images

We've created a graphic for those thumbshots that we just haven't gotten to yet for one reason or another. No more mysterious blank white boxes.

So there you have it. Take a look around and then let us know what you think about the updates. love them? hate them? let us know in the discussions: http://www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/blogcatalog-august-updates

Until next time,
The BlogCatalog Team

The Power of PR and Blogging

Join global PR consultant, Alan Weinkrantz on September 16th 11:30 CST as he streams live via the BlogCatalog Ustream Channel.

Alan will show you the secrets of using breakthrough PR techniques to help you rise above the noise, and promote your blog by getting your brand in front of mainstream and vertical market media.

Come Join BlogCatalog at BlogWorld

BlogWorld, the blogging world's largest show, will be in Las Vegas on September 20th-21st. Along with blogging and social media gurus including Guy Kawasaki, Darren Rowse, and Brian Clark, thousands of bloggers, vloggers and podcasters will be there too. It's that big.

The BlogCatalog team will be at BlogWorld and you'll be able to find us at booth #328. BlogWorld is offering BlogCatalog members a 20% discount. To take advantage of this discount visit the BlogWorld site and sign up with the discount code: BCVIP. Hope to see you there!

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