Opportunity for starting a ShiachatBlog

[alisayyed]

Dear All, Salamalaikum,

 

I am pleased to inform that we have an opportunity to start our own Shiachat-Blog™ . 

There are some dedicated members who wish to see the blog become a success, through their efforts. However, it is obvious that the blog will need more contributors to increase the chances of its success.

Why a blog?

• While you can, and do, post on the forum, the blog will feature high quality content. This will help us significantly increase and share our knowledge. 
• It will also help solve the problem of exceptional posts being lost under the new/updated threads. 
• Your contributions to the blog will help us increase audience for the shiachat blog in general and shiachat in particular, while displaying a deservingly better and intelligent image of the online Shia community.
• In order to create your blog, you will need to research and learn a lot. If you commit a certain number of articles, you will psych yourself into learning more while creating them.
• You can create you own blog on blogspot etc. But here on shiachat, you will be getting an interested and a ready audience.

 

Now that we are done with the marketing, a few things need to be considered before volunteering-

• Each contribution for the blog should have at least around 750 words.
• The content should be original and of a good quality- meaning that the content should be of some value to the readers.
• The project will move forward only if the contributions keep coming. So please do stick to your pledges.
• To be very specific, the first submission of the blog will display the actual level of interest. And as you all know, the first step is the hardest. Dont hesitate to take the plunge.
• You may feel free to seek assistance from fellow contributors and the shiachat members for getting enough material for the blog.

Currently, the volunteers are to be from shiachat alone, so if you are a 'Guest' (not registered), then you might consider registering. Or shiachat members can post the blogs on behalf of their friends.

This topic and the poll is to gauge the interest at a preliminary level. Hence, if at any point of time, it is felt that there are less volunteers/pledges, then the project wont take off.

Please feel free to comment and add your suggestions. If required, even the polls can be edited(with permission). The point is, you may feel free to give your honest feedback/suggestions.

[Ali]

Salam Alaikum,

Thank you for leading this initiative.

I also wanted to add the fact that since ShiaChat.com has been LIVE for close to 15 years now with a massive community, your blog and the content of the blog will not only be accessible to 50k users, but you will have an opportunity to reach millions of people online through search engines thanks to ShiaChat.com's search engine friendly content that we've build over the past 15 years.  We've worked hard to make ShiaChat search engine friendly and as a result, any and all content posted here will be immediately searchable on all search engines and you'll have a global reach should you wish to do so.

This will be a great opportunity of mutual benefit for you as an author to get your message across and for us as a platform to attract new people.

[Hameedeh]

People who can write a blog post should do so. Please consider it. Why keep all that knowledge to yourself?

[Ali]

Salam Alaikum,

The blogs are now up and are live!  Click on the "Members Blog" tab above and start blogging!  We already have a few members who have started and some of these are great!