Short Summary
JURNL was created after reviewing close to 1 million blogs on BlogCatalog a community of bloggers that we run and seeing how challenging it is for smaller to mid-sized bloggers & publishers to consistently create content.
JURNL offers unique features:
* Easiest way to create a community
* Publish video, audio, text and Q&A in 2 clicks
* Embed as a discussion forum on your existing site
* Participation features - inviting people to contribute content and share
Imagine having a community and being able to ask your members each day a question that they can answer with a video, image or post? They then answer, share and challenge the community themselves.
JURNL tools are focused on rewarding your members, encouraging them to create content, share and invite others to join and create. The best content gets voted up, best members end up on your leaderboard and can create more questions, polls and contests, for others to answer with video, images and posts, creating a perfect symbiotic social loop
With JURNL your blog will be running in minutes and looks like:
or with one click changes to look like this:
or with another click, looks like this:
- We know how challenging it is for a blogger to create content and gain exposure. The largest sites have access to both paid writers and volunteers. Most small to mid-sized bloggers do not.
- The solution for small to mid-sized publishers is to build a community of writers. Though this isn't easy. That's where JURNL comes in.
- JURNL makes it simple and worthwhile for writers to join and create content. This aspect of JURNL is and will always be critical because with community small to mid sized bloggers are able to create plenty of content and elevate their publications to be on par with content being created by the world's most popular sites.
- Most of all JURNL will always be about making it fun, simple and providing publishers with creative ways to create professional looking content that engages both your community and audience.
What's Required
- We are seeking $25,000 to program the "engine" that creates JURNLs so that anyone that wants a JURNL can create one in minutes.
- Over the last few months we have been installing JURNLs manually and with customer feedback improving them. We are now excited to take the final step to launch and make JURNL available to the world.
The Impact
- Funding JURNL will enable us to automate the process of creating each JURNL so that it's self-serve and takes a JURNL user minutes to set up a beautiful publication.
- You contribution will make it possible for almost anyone to create a JURNL that costs $9 a month and looks, feels and has features found on the world's leading online publications.
Risks & Challenges
The hurdle is taking the current JURNL code and developing the technology that with the click of a mouse creates a new instance of JURNL.
- Our team of developers has been working on the project for 3 months. They are talented and an experienced, creative group of developers and designers that have launched multiple large applications.
- We have a clear outcome for releasing the first version of JURNL and believe that by keeping things simple and clean we will create one of the most fun, and user friendly ways to build an online publication and community.
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The publishing industry has large companies including Wordpress & Tumblr. There is a risk that JURNL is seen in the same light as them. The PR and marketing challenge will be to ensure that JURNL is first and foremost seen as social platform that enables JURNLists to build a community equipped with the best tools to easily create content, invite new members to join and participate and share what's being created.
Other Ways You Can Help
We appreciate all shares of this project with friends who enjoy writing, photography and/or creating videos.
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