Category Archives: NBN News

Where’s Waldo – and the Rest of the Network?

As Mike explained yesterday Everyone has one month to recategorize and make sure you’ve installed the tracking code you each received when you were accepted to the NBN. On August 1, we will delete from the rolls any blog that still hasn’t installed the code. That’s the stick. I get tell you about the carrot. [...]

By wren | On Jul 3, 2009 | Comments (5)
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Seabrooke Leckie joins the NBN Team!

I am positively thrilled, THRILLED to announce that Seabrooke Leckie of The Marvelous in Nature has joined the Nature Blog Network team. No doubt, many of you know Seabrooke through her fantastic blog, her engagement in the nature blogging community, or perhaps her star turn in her January 2009 NBN interview. Today, she is introducing [...]

By Seabrooke | On Jun 11, 2009 | Tagged | Comments (8)
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Make The Midwest Birding Symposium an NBN Event!

One of the true pleasures of being a nature blogger is meeting other nature bloggers. If you haven’t tried this before, I highly recommend it. With our international community of intelligent, inquisitive, and often entertaining naturalists, writers and photographers, there is simply no need to toil in solitude! TR Ryan of From the Faraway, Nearby [...]

By Mike | On Jun 10, 2009 | Tagged | Comments (3)
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Flora to Plants?

Last week, I broached the topic of splitting the Nature Blog Network category of Ecosystem into smaller, more specific categories. That fruitful conversation is still going, so don’t hesitate to add your two cents. But before I commence recategorizing the NBN, I’d like to turn our collective attention to another category: Flora. One suggestion has [...]

By Mike | On Jun 4, 2009 | Comments (2)
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Excess of Ecosystem

Taxonomy can be tricky business as you nature lovers know. However, we derive great advantage from systems that efficiently and effectively categorize different familes, genera, species, etc. The categorization scheme for members of the Nature Blog Network is also meant to facilitate the identification different blogs in the field. Alas, the classification of nature blogs [...]

By Mike | On May 28, 2009 | Tagged | Comments (26)
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Departure

While it is difficult to know just what to say when exiting such a publicly visible project as the Nature Blog Network Blog, this is precisely what I am faced with doing at present. While my own blog, Born Again Bird Watcher, will continue on as it has done for over two years now, life [...]

By BABW | On May 23, 2009 | Tagged | Comments (5)
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Flickrs and Turkeys

My brief and far-from-scientifically-valid survey last week elicited the information that flickr and facebook were the two most used and best liked social networking tools by nature bloggers. Interestingly, Facebook was slightly more used in this sample but flickr slightly more favored. It makes sense, as photos and nature blogging are natural partners. To make [...]

By wren | On Nov 27, 2008 | Tagged , | Comments Off
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Good of the Order: NBN Flickr Group

As most bloggers discover in the course of their blog’s development, textual narrative is all well and good but if you really want to drive your visitation rates up, it’s hard to go wrong with the addition of a few photos. Ideally, these photos should be good, or at least bad in a creative way, [...]

By BABW | On Nov 23, 2008 | Tagged | Comments (1)
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State of the NBN in October 2008

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen of the international nature blogging community. I’m pleased and honored to deliver to you today the first State of the Nature Blog Network address. Friends and colleagues, the state of the Nature Blog Network is strong! I started the Nature Blog Network in January 2008 with zero members, well, one actually [...]

By Mike | On Nov 5, 2008 | Tagged | Comments Off
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Introducing BABW

Whenever I’m called upon to write an introduction for myself, I immediately experience a flashback to the Jon Lovitz “Get to Know Me!” sketches on Saturday Night Live (years of therapy haven’t helped to overcome this). In any case, I’m John, better known in Internet, as well as crop, circles as the Born Again Bird [...]

By BABW | On Nov 3, 2008 | Tagged | Comments (1)
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