House in Progress Diary

Introducing the Houseblogs.net Community

Every once in a while we have something to share on this site about our other little online project--houseblogs.net.  Today is one of those occasions, because we've launched an upgrade that we've been planning (and talking about) for a long time...the Houseblogs.net Community.

First off, you'll notice the fancy new banner, but there are a lot of new features hidden in there too...

We've built the new site to help both readers and writers network with other like-minded home improvement fans.  You can read about all of the features here, but there are three we'd like to highlight for the readers of House in Progress:

• If you like to read several houseblogs like this one but find the main HouseBlogs feed a little overwhelming (over 300 houseblogs!), you can use the Friends feature to track the latest writing and discussions of your favorite writers all in one place under the Blogs tab.
• If you want to remember the best blog posts or discussion topics and find them again easily, try bookmarking your favorite ones.
• If you'd like to show off your own home/condo/apartment/tent but don't have the energy to write an entire blog, create your own profile where you can post photos and share the details of your home improvement adventures with others.

If those features sound useful, you'll can create an account to take advantage of them--you can get started in two minutes by filling out the registration form.  (We don't harvest or sell any contact data for any HouseBlogs.net registrants.  Period.)

We'll probably discuss more features here in the coming weeks, because there is a lot of stuff packed in there.  We've got a few more things coming down the pike too, but we'll hold off adding those to the pile for now.

We've always loved sharing our own story here at House in Progress, so we're especially excited to see how all of you might use these new tools to better share your own stories and learn from each other.  Have at it--we'll be watching and cheering from the sidelines!  :-)

Posted by aaron on September 5, 2006 at 4:33 PM (1)