Blogging Tips

Even though Twitter seems to be taking over the micro-blogging world, I still feel there’s room for niche micro-blogging communities. Plus, they can really come in handy for groups working together on a project. It could even be beneficial to create a micro-blogging community for your own blog to create more of a community feel. Whatever the case, here are a few sites that can get you started in that direction.

Yonkly

What: A great way to create a niche  micr0-blogging community network.

Plans: Free, Basic ($4.95/month), Power ($14.95/month), Premium ($24.95/month)

Features: You monetize your community with ads, provides Flickr integration, images and videos can be viewed on the site, provides Twitter integration, three edition choices (hosted, standalone and opensource), ability to enable Facebook connect.

P2: The New Prologue

What: A WordPress theme that transforms your blog into a micro-blog and is also great for group projects.

Plans: Free

Features: Live notifications, comments on the homepage, inline editing, threaded comments, keyboard shortcuts, automatic tag suggestions, no character or word limits.

Twingr

What: “The place to bond with your group.”

Plans: Free

Features: Allows you to easily invite friends via your email credentials, integrated link sharing, community search feature, choose who can send you direct messages, choose who can reply to your messages.

Shout’em

What: A feature right micro-blogging platform with social media integration.

Plans: Free while in beta after which, premium content such as file sharing, custom ads, etc will cost you.

Features: Can be integrated into an existing website, you can make your network private or public, you decide what your users can and cannot do by picking your own custom features, you can freely customize your theme, you can monetize your community with ads, users can post via SMS.

All of these sites have great features, but the one feature I really wish they had were the ability to create groups like on Yammer. Yammer is a place to create a private micro-blogging business network; unfortunately, Yammer is not the place to create public communities. Plus, Yammer even has a desktop application which is very convenient.