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Online content is amazing because it’s so much more than just the content.  It’s also about who’s reading it, how they feel about what they’re reading, who else is writing about the same topic, why you’re writing it…in essence, it’s about the community surrounding it.

A newspaper has readers.  A tv show has viewers.  Online content producers have a community.

The extent to which writes can connect with their readers online is limitless.  New tools are coming out every day to create new ways for readers and writers to interact.  One of our goals for Scribnia is to break down the writer/reader barrier even more, and allow for even more interaction within your community.

If columnists for “mainstream” media are going to find success in the future, they’ll have to embrace the community aspect of online content, the same way bloggers do.

We hope that Scribnia will serve as a valuable tool that allows authors and readers build a stronger community.  We hope it will connect readers to bloggers that otherwise never would have found each other.

We’ve created a few ways to make Scribnia more social, allowing for authors to create more engagement within their community.

• Invite Friends: To invite your community to come join Scribnia, and write or receive reviews.
• Search Scribnia: Find and follow friends that are already on Scribnia.
• ScribUp: Promote your favorite authors on twitter.
• Tweet This: Under each review, you can click the “tweet this” link to share your review on twitter.

If you have any other ideas for how we can make Scribnia a more social tool, that owuld help you to build your community, let us know.