How often did you join an online community or forum only to remain there as a “new/inactive” member? I personally can easy come up with at least 10….
I visit BumpZee! several times a day to read or participate in an ongoing discussion. After checking out the latest upgrade it is clear to me that communities within BumpZee! are becoming more focused (a missing aspect of many online communities and the reason #1 I am “new/inactive” member of so many of them).
BumpZee! started with one community- Affiliate Marketing Community. Recent upgrade introduces additional SEO/SEM community, with many more communities on the way. If you wirte about Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing, this new community maybe perfect for you.
While communities within BumpZee! are focused around particular subjects, membership is open to everyone. If you are a blogger you may request an “auto inclusion” option and if you write on topics related to your community, your posts will be automatically submitted and other members will have a chance to “bump” (or “dump”) and discuss your post. If your post is bumped to the front page you are likely to receive some extra visits from other BumpZee! members. The widget (or plugin if you are WordPress user) is available to track the other member’s visits to your blog as well as ongoing discussion. Your post can start a discussion both on your own blog as well as on BumpZee itself, if your blog starts a lively discussion your post will be placed on the top of the list of ongoing discussions every time the new comment is added, again resulting in some extra traffic.
Not a blogger? You still can join BumpZee! You can submit interesting stories, you can “bump”(or “dump”) entires and participate in the ongoing discussions. With newly introduced RSS features, you can be on top of what is happening at BumpZee! via your RSS reader.
If you have a blog but don’t see appropriate community to join, your community may be on the way. BumpZee! is not even 3 months old.