In the good old days of blogging, a blogger would at some time either run out of steam or ideas and enter a writer’s block, where for periods of time they would not publish a new post. This usually breaks the loyal readers heart and they move on with life and the blogs they read. Not a good thing for you, if you were the blogger with the block.
Skribit is a new service (actually pretty old in beta, launched proper an hour ago) that helps you cure this writer’s block with the help of your faithful readers. Its based on this assumption: Readers are faithful when bloggers write useful posts for them, about the things they want to read about. Also, successful bloggers are those who know what their audience wants to read and write that. So now that you have a pretty much targeted audience and you run out of ideas ask them – Faithf ul readers, what do you want to read next? They will rise and shine to give you an answer to that question.
This is exactly the service offering of Skribit. It can be installed as a widget or a tab on your blog, which readers can access to send suggestions to you. You have complete control over how you want to treat these suggestions. These suggestions are also visible to your audience, so they additional readers can express interest in suggested topics and you can have multiple suggestions with varying interested readers following. Once you fulfill the suggestion, add teh URL of the post to it and all interested readers are notified. Sweet, simple and very useful.
If you were a blogger on the Skribit beta, you can now upgrade to a 1 year Pro account for a discount of 50% by redeeming the promocode ackbar42 by Jan. 27th, 2010. More details on the Skribit website.
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Author: Kinshuk Sunil (72 Articles)
Kinshuk Sunil is the founder of the WiSy Blog. An active evangelist for Open Source and a enthusiast Game Designer, Kinshuk focuses on reviewing Softwares, Services and Games here. However, a jack of all trades, Kinshuk can be found talking about almost everything. Catch up with him on twitter @kinshuksunil.
