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Contributing to blogTO, Explained

Posted by Tim / November 21, 2007

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A lot of web sites and media these days talk about community. From time to time we talk about it too. For us it means a lot more than, say, a lively comment thread or a Flickr group. As much as those two things are key elements to this site, we've always wanted to do more. A lot more. So, today I'm happy to announce that we've finally set up a page that explains a number of different ways we're trying to further embrace community and enable many more of you to have a more amplified voice on this site.

While some of what's on this page is simply an effort to better communicate some features that have long been in place, there are a couple of new options that might be of interest to some.

We now have a process in place that makes it possible for any of you to contribute articles or reviews to the site. In the past, we had strict rules that only our core team created the editorial. And while anything submitted to us is still subject to review and approval by our editorial team, we've decided to at least enable this because we recognize that many of you might be interested in contributing something once or occasionally without the pressure of a minimum or longer-term commitment.

All the details can be found on our new Contribute page (Some of you may have already noticed the link at the top of this page) and some new pages that link from that page. Go ahead and take a look.

Photo from bonkrood on Flickr

Discussion

3 Comments

RandomTangent / November 22, 2007 at 10:56 am
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Great concept guys, I like where you're going with this. Another bit of feedback: keep up the Toronto news roundups. I particularly appreciate it on days where I skip the commute and work from home... the news roundups take the place of my usual commuter rag (I feel guilty sometimes reading the Metro but sometimes I just... can't... help it...).
Steven / November 22, 2007 at 11:37 am
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Are you guys stupendous enough yet for people to send you books for reviewing. I would love to review a book or two, keeping the free book of course.
Tim / November 22, 2007 at 11:45 am
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We don't typically do book reviews, mainly because they're readily available elsewhere (Amazon, Indigo etc.). But from time to time if there's a book that interests us which is written by a Toronto author or has some sort of Toronto relevance we might review it.

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