Instablogs Tour
FAQ
1. What is Instablogs

Instablogs is a news ecosystem bringing bloggers, citizen journalists and traditional media together. It’s a place to discover, share, contribute and connect with the world and the people who’re changing it.

2. Who creates news on Instablogs?

Citizen Journalists: Contributors like you can publish original articles or share interesting news-links from external sources. We have a diverse community of news reporters, business owners, college students, housewives, artists, parents, and more in different countries and regions.

Traditional Media: We syndicate best posts from the wire services in an automated fashion. This makes us one of the fastest places to find news-wire on the web.

Bloggers: We also handpick blogs in our network. The section is called Instablogs Club. Most of our selected blogs are news based blogs regularly updated with excellent content making them market leaders in their niche.

Small portion of the news content from these blogs is also syndicated automatically in respective channels, with direct links to their blogs.

3. Who decide what is coming on Homepage?

You decide. The community is responsible for the story selection on homepage or any other section.

Every new submission, whether it’s a complete article or a news link to external content, first makes to the “Upcoming”, where members like you can vote on the story. If the story receives enough votes, it moves from Upcoming to popular section.

4. Newslink or Publish Story. What is the difference between both?

A complete original article written by you is submitted as a story.

But if you want to highlight or share some interesting content found on external site with other members, you just need to submit it as a news-link.

5. Besides submitting content, what other things I can do?

On Instablogs you can

  • (a) Vote stories and make them popular. Decide what’s important.
  • (b) Comment on articles. Add your take to the news.
  • (c) Connect with like minded people. Make new friends everyday.
  • (d) Track activities of other users. Stay connected.
  • (e) Send quick messages. Interact with other members.
  • (f) Publish and manage your own content. Make yourself heard.
6. What is the easiest way to find news on my favorite topic on Instablogs?

We are glad you ask that.

1. Search stories/images by keywords from search bar on top of the page.

2. Find news from your region and communities. http://www.instablogs.com/united-states/

3. Find news from your favorite topic or channels Technology, Business, Entertainment.

4. Or just find anything by typing that keyword after Instablogs URL. http://www.instablogs.com/your-key-word

Video Demos
Homepage Instablogs Homepage is divided into different news-modules like Global Snapshot, CJs (Citizen Journalists) in Action, Newsroom etc. The hompage is highly customizable and can be tweaked to match your taste and style easily.

To know more, check the video demo.

Local meets Global Every news has two sides of story and two different perspectives, local and global. Until now to see news from other persepctives you had to read or check dozens of sites and blogs. But not anymore.

To know more, check the video demo.

Your Column, MyBlog Setup a personalized and customizable column for yourself as soon as you register for Instablogs. Publish your articles, share intersting links and build your own fan following.

Check out the video demo, of myBlog in Action.

Let the News find you We all like to read different news, get different opinions and follow our favourite authors or writers. What if all of these come to you on a single page.

Don`t believe us, check out the video demo.