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NBI Followup – Part 2

Posted by shadowspawned on September 5, 2012 with 3 Comments
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I thought I would check up on my fellow newbie bloggers who participated in Syp’s Newbie Blogger Initiative.Last time I checked of the 109 participants over half were active, either posting very often of at least semi often (bi-weekly). I went through and checked up on all though sites and as surprising number (41) were very active and (16) semi-active. That is still over half of the participants who are still going strong.

I am not sure how this fares compared to other initiatives from other times but I think this was arousing success. I would once again like to thank Syp for setting this up and for the helpful articles from all the sponsors.

Here is the updated list of all the participants along with their current status.

Author Blog Twitter Status
Bob Flintston Altaclysmic Active
Badtauren (Phil) Bad Tauren phillip jones Active
Rambling Redshirt Beyond Tannhauser Gate Active
Ocho Casual Aggro Ocho Active
Bernard Diminishing Returns Active
Entombed Divinity’s Reach Active
Iluviel Elfkina Turret (in Slovak language) Veronika Active
Ninevi Flask Half-Empty Ninevi Active
Jimmeh Funsponge.net Active
Wapsipinicon Goetia’s Letters Active
GW2WvW GW2 WvW Guild Wars 2 WvW Active
Braelyan Healing Mains (co written with elunamakata) Jenn Howard Cannon Active
Elunamakata Healing Mains (co written with holybrae) Elunamakata Active
Ewine Hipstalotro Active
Tyler Murphy How to Pour Sand Back Into the Box Tyler Murphy Active
Eva Image Heavy Eva Active
Laenlis Landroval Style Active
Optimus Maleficus Malefic Incantations Optimus Maleficus Active
Aly Mistress of Illusions Active
Feliz MMO Compendium MMO Compendium Active
Aillas MMO Juggler Active
Kanter MMO One Night a Week Active
Lyrestra Musings of an altoholic Active
JustRight Not Too Heavy Active
Asherrylie Priest All The Things Active
Ravanel Ravalation Active
Red Neckromonger Red’s Roid Rage Red Neckromonger Active
Saali Saali in Taborea Active
Pentha Scattered Thoughts Active
Mechalis That Was an Accident! Active
Danania The Adventures of Danania, Supergirl of Lorien! Active
Leelu The Butterfly Gamer Active
Skron The Frugal Gamer Skron Active
Avaloner The Mighty Viking Hamster Active
Jacob A. Ratliff tl-dr Jacob Ratliff Active
Diane Rasmussen Neal tl-dr tl-dr Active
Siadina Trippin Tyria Siadina Sorrowchild Active
Zellviren Unwavering Sentinel Christopher Whyte Active
Vagabond Vagabond goes for a Walk Active
Amijade Warlockery Active
White Charr White Charr – A Guild Wars 2 Blog Active
Jeromai Why I Game Active
Kiralynn of Landroval Windy Acres Ranch Active
Lifedeathsoul Backseat Game design Semi-Active
Khuruuk Casually Vicious Semi-Active
Sooru Click to Loot Semi-Active
Leodar Dreadblade Crusader Leodar Semi-Active
Tyler Murphy Game Delver Tyler Murphy Semi-Active
Cari Mac Glimpses from Middle-Earth Semi-Active
Sephora Sephora’s Closet Semi-Active
Rob spacefiddle Semi-Active
Luranni Stabby McStabStab Li Semi-Active
Cocktorpedo TFScribbles Semi-Active
Randolph Carter This Roaring Silence Semi-Active
Joshua (Wald works too) Wald’s Wanderings Semi-Active
Frinka Warcraft Street Warcraft Street Semi-Active
Quadzi Warrior Needs Time Badly Semi-Active
Shadowspawnd World’s End Tavern Shadowspawnd Semi-Active
Wynnie Wynniekins’ Adventures Semi-Active
Chris Geo’s Ironman Challenge Chris Urquhart Closed
Skaggy SWTOR from scratch Skaggy Poet Closed
Nomieke /con mmob Dead
Efithor Adamant Nomad Dead
Rhalinur Aggrolicious Aggrolicious Dead
Ald Ald Shot First Dead
Vitha AntiPlasmaFrequency Dead
Fivequarters Argus or Bust Dead
Zeth Battlemastered Zeth Dead
Brandon Beyond-Reproach Dead
Jezi Big Numbers! Rainee Sue Dead
TJ Edgar Bloodthorne Dead
Brazokie Brazokie’s Blog Space Brazokie Dead
Mark/Valerian commentarilies mark colton Dead
Jason Conveniently Placed Exhaust Port Jason Rice Dead
Craftygod Crafty’s Corner Dead
Diabloceto Deathstomp, The Ruminations of a Death Knight diabloceto Dead
Donovan Donovan Drones Dead
Eon Themistocles Eons and Eons Away Dead
Rundle Allighter Eve All Night Dead
Susi Gaming Abroad Dead
Brews Gaming Brew Dead
Pamela Gaming for Introverts Dead
Rich Gnomegates.com Gnomegates Dead
Hasugo Numani (aka motstandet) Horrible Ball of Fire Dead
Ivy4Life Kaw Kaw Get in the Bag Dead
Kemwer Kemwer Game Blog Andre Goersch Dead
Beorneoth LOTRO Cinna Dead
Ben “Aarto” Lickerman MiddleEarthInitiative Dead
Serenity MMOARprz Serenity Dead
Kavorkian My Staff is Bigger than Yours Pedro Rocha Dead
Maruka Neurotic Girl Maruka Dead
Teatro Newbie Hobbit Dead
Onterion Omens of Onterion (An Eve Online Blog) Dead
O’Fajota Raspberry Jammed Dead
Kupapo Real Adventures In Fake Worlds Dead
Syllenn Renai Hunter Dead
Saali Saali in Taborea Dead
Sil The Blue Haired Geek Dead
Peter Hatch The Diverted Muse Peter Hatch Dead
Budged (aka Darkeflaire or Sienra) The Horn & Ivory Gates Dead
Black Seven The Incidental Analyst Dead
Youngblood The Poison Mushroom Dead
Evilitis thenotsonewnoob Dead
Jim To Infinity and Beyond ! (Invite only at this time) Dead
Toastman Toastman’s blog Dead
Kalc Unliving a Death Knight Dead
Grimmash Warp to Zero Dead
Killington WASD Way Killington Dead
Wynnie Wynnie goes Free to Play Dead

NBI Follow Up

Posted by shadowspawned on July 3, 2012 with 3 Comments
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Back in May Syp of Bio-Break arranged a program for new bloggers. He got a bunch of bloggers to agree on posting articles on how to blog, set up a website or just to answer question from newbie bloggers on the forums.

I have pages with links for all the Sponsors and Newbies who signed up. It was bit of a surprise to see how many people participated. At last count there were 92 Sponsors and 109 Newbie bloggers. Strange as it may sound a few are actually listed in both and many of the Newbies posted help and tips articles as well.

For a list of the bloggers participating sorted by type, check out this list or here for the list of sponsor articles.

FlizBleu over at MMO Compendium also posted some interesting numbers at the half way mark.

I got curious and went back and checkout my list of Newbie bloggers to see how many were still active.

109 Newbie Bloggers

22 Never posted after signing up or never made it through May

28 Showing signs of life eith by posting in last 2 weeks or mentioning an extended absence

59 Active and in some cases very active bloggers, still going strong.

I think this means it was a rousing success where better than half are regular posters and another 1/3 may post intermittantly or on planned absences but will return.

NBI Finale

Posted by shadowspawned on May 31, 2012 with No Comments
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Back on the 1st of May, I saw a message scrolling through my twitter feed by one of the WoW Twitter folks about this interesting event they were participating in called the Newbie Blogger Initiative with a link to a forum set up for it. I had tried my hand at blogging awhile back (’09) but didn’t [...]