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BenSpark.com is about my life through photography. Each image is a gateway to a story about my daily life. Occasionally funny, inspiring, interesting or creative BenSpark.com is real life in photos. With over 4200 consecutive days and many different cameras BenSpark.com has documented images from the mundane to the amazing.
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Website: BUMPzee!

You may have noticed a small button on each of my blogs at the end of each post that says Bump. That is or the BUMPzee website. What is BUMPzee? Well it is an interesting website that you can use to build your own communities or join in on existing communities.

I created four communities. One is for the people who do PayPerPost, the other for people listed on FuelMyBlog one for Photo-A-Day for people who take and post a photo each day and the last is one called The BenSpark, it includes only my four blogs.

I set that last one up so that an RSS feed could be generated that showed posts from each of my blogs. Then I took that feed and added it to Feedburner and made an animated header to include on my forum signatures as well as on each of my blogs. Scroll to the Bottom to see what it looks like. I am adding this to each of my blogs.

I joined a few communities too. I joined the Gadgets community as well as the No Nofollow | I Follow | DoFollow Community. I have been e-mailing with Andy Beard of this afternoon and he suggested that I add a Kayaking Community. So I created that too.

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WebSite: FuelMyBlog – Stage #2

FuelMyBlog is innovating again. The site will undergo another great transformation i the coming weeks. Here are some of the great features that we can soon expect from FMB:

  • 21 Categories – More variety and focus
  • Quick/Advanced search facility – that will help you locate blogs and should do what we set up the site for, reading blogs of interest easier.
  • Click and read everyone’s new posts, live.
  • Fast loading of each page
  • Better forum
  • The radio show we keep promising!
  • User accounts – see who has voted for you are reciprocate if you think they deserve it, making a real community.
  • Controlled voting
  • Fuel blog to have many writers including some guest writers
  • Unique must-have world leading blog tool.

I am really looking forward to the new changes and also the increased awareness that this site is bringing to the blogging community. I am very glad to be a Mod on the Fuel My Blog Forum.