Real Bloggers United

Hello I just wanted to have a quick chat about RBU, where I posted yesterday.
For anyone who doesn’t know what RBU is, a small band of us bloggers got together from the Blogcatelog forum (before they made it all weird), because we bored of all the rubbish spamming that went on.

The result was a band of folk who wanted to blog, rather than just sell. I wound up on the editing team when we dreamed up the idea of creating a new blog.

What we do is get members of the group to send in a themed post once a month to showcase themselves to a different bunch of readers.

The blog carries no advertising whatsoever, meaning that the benefits are purely in showing yourself off, and that we don’t make any cash from other writer’s work.

I’m writing this today just so you know that it is absolutely open for any genuine blogger to join, whatever type of blog you have (written, photo, video or other). It does not matter how many adverts you may or may not have on your own site, as long as your prime focus is about creating something special, then the fact that you try and make some cash out of it is irrelevant – I know I’d love to see that fat Google check drop on my mat (dream on).

If you have new or old posts you would like to share with a new audience then maybe give us some thought.

The idea – of course isn’t just that you take.

The idea is that you read, as well as write, in order to give something back. Have a look at the other writers in the group, check out their work too. We have a huge range of styles in our group. Some people are brilliant technical writers – others are writing with English as a 2nd language, some might not be the best writers in the world but their imagination is strong, and they are genuine bloggers – I love that.

The only bit that I don’t like is that I’m supposed to edit these posts when I’m one of those latter ‘genuine blogger’ ones, and barely know what I’m supposed to be looking for!

You never know you might find some you like from genres you wouldn’t normally check out.

What I like is the broad spectrum of people’s take on a theme. How different the posts can be. For instance this month’s theme is Love but having read all the posts already I can tell you that people come at that one theme from so many different angles.

So please, if you get a spare moment, pop over and have another look at RBU, see if you want to read it more, or maybe even join it. I’d love to find your submissions in my inbox in the future.