Bloganuary: A Resounding Success!

Despite the fact that you possibly can construct any sort of web site on WordPress.com, from an eCommerce retailer to a pictures portfolio, blogs nonetheless make up the vast majority of our 60 million plus websites. To enhance interplay and reference to these bloggers, we tried one thing new: Bloganuary, a writing problem all through the month of January, the place we supplied each day prompts to encourage folks to publish weblog posts.

By no means having run a month lengthy running a blog problem earlier than, we didn’t know what to anticipate. Would bloggers take part? Would the neighborhood admire this? 

However the outcomes have been unbelievable! Hundreds of individuals joined in from around the globe, running a blog in numerous languages. Maybe what warmed our hearts essentially the most, although, was we acquired to see first-hand how shut our neighborhood of worldwide bloggers actually is. Individuals appreciated and commented on shared posts, watched their audiences develop, and adopted new websites they didn’t beforehand find out about. 

However don’t simply take our phrase for it. Right here’s what a few of Bloganuary’s individuals needed to say (some grammar edits have been made for readability functions):

A wonderful initiative. A lot selection. I feel, “what is going to I say?” after which provide you with one thing sudden. Have been on hiatus with my account by means of a few of [the] lockdown. What an effective way to get again into the swing of issues. Thanks

– Storyteller, artandidioms.com

#bloganuary was an opportunity for me to really stay in a neighborhood the place we write, we learn what others need to say and maybe share our tales with one another. Each particular person has a particular energy by means of which he communicates with others, some by portray, others sing and we…WRITE. The spark of this entire problem was how one matter could cause ripples in some ways and what number of distinctive views there are in a single matter.

– SaniaDiary, saniadiary.wordpress.com

It is a actual problem, one thing I’ve by no means performed earlier than. I usually write a weblog each few months however beginning in February, I feel it will likely be weekly. I’ve totally loved #bloganuary thus far and intend to go all the best way.

– johnarthurbetts

With such an excellent response to Bloganuary, we’re working to seek out new methods to have interaction with our WordPress.com neighborhood, so preserve an eye fixed out for some new and thrilling challenges this yr!

And if running a blog publicly isn’t your most popular option to write, contemplate the Day One app, which lets you journal privately.