Return of NBI

Return of NBI

One of the coolest initiatives that I can recall in the gaming blogosphere is returning, and this time the torch has been passed from Sypster of Biobreak to Contains Moderate Peril and T.R. Red Skies.  As a result they are asking for new bloggers and sponsors to sign up and be counted over on the newly relaunched NBI Forums.  You can check out the official announcement here… but the bulk of it is as follows.

Whether you’re a vlogger, blogger, podcaster, artist or whatever …if you own a blog dedicated to video games, the Newbie Blogger Initiative 2 needs your support! A great number of bloggers supported the Initiative last year and we are calling on you again to participate as well as imploring new bloggers to snatch this opportunity as well. The goals of the NBI are simple:  Find, visit, and promote new video game bloggers.  Create a friendly network of support.  Increase survival of new bloggers. (This is a new area of focus this year!)

I participated in the program as a sponsor blog last year and it was a great upwelling of community support.  I look forward to seeing what all comes out of it this time.  Back in May, Wilhelm did a post running down who all had survived the year.  We had 110 start new blogs during the program and a year later 30 had survived.  So as the above statement says… the focus this year is to find ways to help bloggers keep up with the blogging.  This rings true especially for me… who has embarked on this whole post something each morning madness.

Signing Up

Once again I will be signing up as a sponsor blog, but quite frankly I still feel like a babe in the woods when it comes to blogging.  I shared a number of more technical topics last year, since that tends to be the end of the thing I am best at.  This year… I will likely share some of my experiences after setting down this daily blogging path.  I still think this is one of the most awesome community sponsored events we have, and while we did not keep many of the voices that started the process, I think it is a start in the right direction.

You can see a run down of the posts I made last year by following my newbie blogger initiative category link.  Additionally I made a post awhile back called Infertile Ground where I talked about how the gaming blogosphere lacks a real sense of cohesiveness.  Maybe during this years NBI, we can start to work on that as well.  During the last round, I added pretty much every blogger that had twitter to my personal feed, and while many of them dropped off the face of the planet… quite a few have become constant fixtures in my scroll.  Hopefully this year can do the same, and build our blogosphere into a more tight knit community.

Wrapping Up

Really don’t have a lot more to say this morning, so I am honestly using the NBI announcement as a bit of a crutch.  I ran a truly silly amount of low level dungeons last night for various guild members, and then wrapped the night up by doing a bit of questing.  My Warrior is almost 47 now, which still seems a long ways off from 50… but I am starting to pay attention to all the things I need to do once I reach cap.  Hopefully all of you out there have a great day, and that the week as a whole is turning out to be a good one.