Announcing the New Blogger Initiative (NBI)

I am extremely proud to announce the launch of the one-month Newbie Blogger Initiative! What is it you say? Well if you haven’t already heard about this initiative on the 70 other blogs, it’s the brain child of a good friend of mine: Syp of Bio Break and Massively fame!

The idea Syp had was to encourage and promote any prospective new bloggers into the arena – and what better mentors than a massive (excuse the pun) gathering of bloggers?

I have to admit it isn’t quite a new idea as I recall a few years back we were all involved in a similar venture of his design for the WAR Blog Community push back when we were all Warhammer Online Bloggers. Gee I sure miss my Tome of Knowledge days! *sniff*

SO Enough with the Nostalgia!

What’s this all about?

For the month of May, you’ll hear from many, MANY other blogs about this initiative as well as a collection of articles from myself and the other bloggers with various bits of advice and tips on starting your own blog. Got a passion for something in gaming, geek culture, yak herding, or perhaps Pacific Rim political relations within a western economy? Then maybe a blog is for you!!

If you have an idea (or perhaps just the desire to start a blog), then keep watching the list of blogs for various tips and helpful articles. In addition to the blogging community, go over and register at:

http://nbihq.freeforums.org

Syp has set up that community space for both “newbie” bloggers and blog sponsors. Already there are a variety of articles, discussion topics, and cool thought-provoking stuff to get you well on your way to starting your own blog.

Once there’s a full list of all the contributing bloggers, I’ll be sure to post them up with their respective links.

As for my contribution, check back here regularly for some advice articles and tutorials with a distinctive artistic flair for those of you who may be keen to start posting up your own art, webcomic, or fan fiction. Do you have some artistic skill and you’ve been excited to share your creations with others? Love comics and have always wanted to break into the career? Well, although I’m not a professional by any stretch of the imagination, I do happen to know that webcomics are making a huge impact on the comics industry and I’ve managed to meet a few fellow webcomic artists who are making a decent name for themselves. Indie webcomics are popping up quicker than zombies in Georgia and I’ve got some key steps to share on how to break into this brand new field of online narrative art.

I’ll also talk a bit about blog promotion and what specific steps I take whenever I post up new Jedi Gambit issues.

So here’s to a great community push to all of you new prospective bloggers out there. And hey! – if you started your blogging journey here by reading this article, be sure to drop me a note via Twitter (@RackhamGreg) – I’d love to hear from you!

UPDATE May 2, 2012:

Syp has posted up a great set of links for us of the participating Sponsor blogs:

Games and Geekery
The Wild Boar Inn
MMO Fallout
Tastes Like Battle Chicken
Grimnir’s Grudge
Roll One Hundred
Dragonchasers
Ardwulf’s Lair
Inventory Full
Jaded Alt
Ark’s Ark
Tremayne’s Law
Blog de la Burro
Just One MMOre
DocHoliday’s MMO Saloon
High Latency Life
MMO Gamer Chick
Skycandy
Nomnom.info
Hunter’s Insight
Life is a Mind Bending Puzzle
Berath’s Brain Burps
Epic Slant
 Bullet Points
 Professor Beej
Journeys with Jaye
 Screaming Monkeys
 Welcome to Spinksville
 Vicarious Existence
 Casual is as Casual Does
 Star Shadow
 I Have Touched The Sky
 The Ancient Gaming Noob
 Just One More Unlock
 A Ding World
 Yeebo Fernbottom’s MMO Love In
 Stropp’s World
 Kill Ten Rats
 The Jedi Gambit
 Beau Hindman
 Blue Kae
 Gankalicious
 Live Like a Nerd
 Casual Stroll to Mordor
 Tish Tosh Tesh
 Casting a Shaddoe
 A Green Mushroom
 ALT:ernative
 Parallel Context
 ETCmmo
 Avatars of Steel
 Tales of the Aggronaut
 West Karana
 Contains Moderate Peril
 The Stories of O
 Levelcapped
 LOTRO Fashion
 Mr. Meh’s Supplication
 Malchome’s Mind/Restokin
 Nerdy Bookahs
 T.R. Red Skies
 Wadstomp
 Scary Worlds
 MMO Compendium
Shards of Imagination
 Ardent Defender
 Blog of the Vagabond
 Creep the Prophet
 Gamer BC
Gamer LadyP
 Psychochild