The Aussie Bloggers Forum Launch
The Aussie Bloggers Forum had a soft launch on 30 December at 6.00 pm, when the three administrators Andrew, Snoskred and I synchronised posts announcing the project.
Social Networking helped with the launch – Twitter, Bloggerati, StumbleUpon, Sphinn, The Blog Link and the like.
By January 5 we hit 100 members, and doubled that on January 17. We’re now up to 219 members.
It’s been a very busy (but exciting) three weeks for everyone involved, that’s for sure! I for one underestimated the level of activity the forum would attract. By the time this is published we’ll have had over 7,500 messages posted in 690 topics.
Every forum attracts spammers, and we’ve had a couple, but these have been dealt with swiftly and for the most part every one is extremely well behaved. Co-operative, friendly, supportive… just the vibe that we had hoped to create.
The moderators have been doing a wonderful job and many will be contributing here. We’ll also be taking guest posts, so feel free to contact us with any suggestions, or join the discussion in the forum.
The Hardworking Moderation Team
- Lani (LaniGiesen) from Blogging Personal
- Lightening (Lightening) from Lightening Online
- Kelley (Kelley) from Magneto Bold Too
- Sue (Sueblimely) from Blogging Sueblimely
- Karen (miscmum) from Miscellaneous Adventures of an Aussie Mum
- Jen (Jaycee) from Semantically Driven
- Colin (clutterbells) from Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe
- Stephen (StephenCronin) from More Than Scratch the Surface
- John (John Lampard) from Disassociated
- Christine (ChristineParfitt) from Semfire Search Engine Marketing
- Squadron (squadron) from SEO Blog
- Martin (Martin Neumann) from Small Office Australia
- Cellobella (Cellobella) from SultanaBlog
- Gavin (servantofchaos) from Servant of Chaos
- Steve (trib) from AcidLabs
The Early Adopters
We’ve had many participants who have enthusiastically embraced the community spirit. The following are links to some of the wonderful blogs of our most active members.
Swollen Pickles
SCHWOIT – Gardening and Geekdom in the Urban Jungle
Dancing About Architecture
Dances To The Beet Of Her Own Drum
The Nook of Oz
My Little Drummer Boys
Boneblower’s World
Wellbeing and Health
kay lives here
Koobarra
A Roaming Aussie Mum
Our Great Southern Land
Joh Blogs
A Clayton’s Secretary
A Byootaful Life
All About Me – And Then Some
Quit Your Day Job
Lizzie’s Home
Masey
The Peasants are Revolting
My Big World of Crap
Smack Dab in the Middle
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Careful What You Wish For…
pureCaffeine.com
Road Less Travelled
Nomesque Fiction
Cherry Blossom Adventures
OzBargain
Sephy’s Platzish
The Super Whites Blog – about life downunder
Abundance Highway
How to Live
Three Ring Circus
Guide To Blogging – Let’s Learn Together
The Road To Madness
Picklebums – and other curious creatures
Tall Poppy
Home of Slightly Cracked Dreams
All for Women
3 Minutes
ProBlogger
We’d like to thank everyone for their questions, assistance, tips and general discussion.
Hope to see you there soon. 
Well done to the three admins and if this blog is anywhere near as popular as the forum currently is then it’s a great thing. I’m looking forward to being a contributor to this blog and reading what others write too.
Fantastic! A forum and now a blog – you all work so hard, thanks again
Looking forward to reading everyone’s posts here too
Happy blog birthday
Good to see this taking off!
Thanks guys for including me and my blog. Looks like it has got off to a roaring start. off to stumble
Congratulations on the launch. I’m looing forward to some great reading.
Yay!!! Aussie Bloggers Blog is here!
Endless thanks to Snoskred, Meg and Andrew for their vision and sheer hard work.
Ohhh…it is really nice to be an Aussie and to see the Aussie blogosphere grow. Well done guys.
I have been quiet because I still just can’t get back into this “have to work” stuff that comes with holidays ending. Why can’t we have a permanent holiday and blog to our hearts delight!!
Congrats guys – I’ll catch you all on the forum soon.
Mxx
Wow! A whole new blog to play with!
Congratulations on launching the blog!
A big thank you to everyone who has worked so hard to make the forums the wonderful success that they are. It is an amazing resource for all Australian bloggers and something that our community of bloggers had been lacking.
Woo-Hoo! Happy birthday Aussie Bloggers! And to Meg, Snoskred and Andrew: Thanks for going through labour.
You’re all troopers!
Great to see an Aussie blog network, well done on the launch and I am looking forward to reading some great stuff and getting involved in the forums.
Congratulations to all of us – those involved in the mod/admin team, and those involved as members of the forums.
It’s been a fun ride so far but it has only just begun.. 
Cheers,
Snoskred
Whooooo Hooooooo!!
You guys are brilliant! Well done xox
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Yay it is finally launched. Well done guys and gals. I am sure the blog will capture the spirit and infectious nature of the forum.
Well done, the forum is both useful and fun, and I expect the blog to be likewise.
(and where am I in the list of early adopters??? …I’m going to have a sulk in the corner about it)
Thanks everyone for your lovely comments
Ian – sulk no more
I’m really sorry I missed you. There was a lot of cutting and pasting in compiling that list…
If I’ve missed anyone who thinks they should be there please let me know.
It’s alive!!
Aussie Bloggers..we rock!
Nice one kids! I look forward to contributing to this masterpiece in the near future!
Congratulations to everyone involved in getting the Aussie Bloggers Forum of the ground. In particular Andrew, Snoskred and Meg. Great resource and great initiative!
go Aussie Bloggers go !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Big Congratulations to all of you for an excellent job
Congrats on getting it all up and running! Thanks for including my link too! I feel so proud!
Can`t wait for more posts…Still thinking about what I could write about!
As a transplanted Australian, I will watch this with interest. I’ve been gone for 48 years but once an Australian, always an Australian. I do follow half a dozen Australian blogs now with Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe and Sue Blimely being a couple of them which are included here.
Good luck with this venture.
much thanks to the admins and mods for all their hard work getting things up and running so smoothly
And congrats!!! On the success of the forum and the launch of the blog
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