This is a guest post from David Spinks. David is the Community Manager for Scribnia.  With a passion for the power of social web communities, he has utilized his knowledge of community building to establish a professional career in the social media field. He authors a blog at www.davidspinks.com and contributes to the Scribnia Blog. Watching Scribnia develop into a strong and loyal community has been very exciting. We’ve enjoyed the loyal activity of some very enthusiastic alpha users who…

A little while back, I shared some tools with you that I thought helped enhance the community spirit for bloggers.  One of those tools was Scribnia, which I described as your “personal feed recommendation”. Having sat down with it a little more since then, it’s clear that it’s a lot more than that. At its simplest, Scribnia allows members to find blogs and authors and rate them. So far, so what? After all, BlogCatalog offers the same feature with their…

Recently I looked at Social Mention and said that one of the things I like about it is the way it connects all your online sources into one. As more networks and ways to interact spring up each day, it’s cool to be able to see what you’ve written and what’s been written about you in a single place. This integration and interaction is especially true for bloggers, when you want to connect with other bloggers as well as the…