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A New Design: BlogFrog

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Yes I did mess with my design here on Lori’s Reflections, but that is not what I am talking about.  I am talking about BlogFrog. I would love to know what you think about it.  Here is my community, feel free to poke around and see all the new changes.  This is a video showing you an overview of what BlogFrog has to offer:

Video Tour of BlogFrog’s New Site from Holly Hamann on Vimeo.

They changed everything to make it BETTER!

New  Features:

  • Better Design – The general look and feel of the community pages is much cleaner, warmer, and more professional. Readers can see more activity at a glance.
  • More customization – New creative options let you further customize your community’s look and feel.  Choose your header/footer colors and even upload a background image.
  • Easier member search – Members can find other members by searching by name, blog or interest.
  • New Admin Options - Now you can feature discussions and get instant stats on your community’s pageviews, forum activity, info on your most active members, and you’ll even see how much money your community has earned you.

So how exactly do your participate on BlogFrog:

How to Participate in a BlogFrog Community from Holly Hamann on Vimeo.


So come on over to our community and let us know what you think!

What Is BlogFrog All About?

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“It is a truly wise man who does not play leap frog with a unicorn”

Ok that quote cracked me up. I promise there are no unicorns with BlogFrog. What you do have is a wonderful sense of community. Since the last time I talked to you about BlogFrog they have now redesigned their whole layout making it easier to connect with other bloggers.

To answer a few questions:

1. IT IS FREE. There are no gimmicks, no pay as you click. Nothing but free.

2. How does it work?

After you sign up for TheBlogFrog, you begin connecting with blogs and blog communities. If you have a blog, TheBlogFrog will connect you with the blogs you link to on your own blog. You can start finding new blogs and participating in blog communities. If you have a blog, you can even install a whole community for your blog.

After you sign up, you can enter in private profile information like High School and College. This information is not shared with others and is only used to connect you with other bloggers from your life.

3. It allows you to post short questions or information you would not normally ask on the front page of your blog.

4. It allows you the capability of adding social widgets:

    News Feed: The News Feed tells you when your friends post and what they are posting about. Hover your mouse over an entry to preview a post.




    Recent Visitors: This widget shows you when your friends visit your blog and (optionally) which friends visit the most.




    Community Widget: This widget shows you when anyone who links to you visits. This encourages your readers to link their own blog to yours which increases your traffic. It also creates a “Community Page” where your readers can interact.

For me it has been beneficial to build a community and it brings exposure to YOUR blogs when visitors visit. It also allowed me to provide additional information while doing my Ezekiel study.

I would love for you to join my community .  Once you do your blog post will show up on my community page and also on the front page of my blog.  But most of all check out BlogFrog’s new design!!