A new community, even if there is Facebook

Why are you going to create a new community if there’s Facebook? This is a kind of question you could often and bitterly be surprised to be asked in case you are about to create a new community. While reflecting about the possibility of succeeding in new social media projects, good reasons for saying that it is not gonna work can also arise very easily. In fact, many people say that social media... Read more

Citizen Journalism and Social Media

Interviewer: Sarah Helen Mageean, third year journalism student at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston. Interviewee: Chiara Bolognini Social Media Manager, Online Journalist, Professional Marketer & Communicator, founder of Blomap.com and owner at Swissite International Sarah: What is your opinion on citizen journalism? Chiara: I am launching an international social network for citizen... Read more

The future plans for Blomap

Blomap has to be considered as an “undo” project as many User Generated Content projects are. The reason for that is to continously adapt to users’ needs. General usability improvements will be done very often according to users’ needs and requests. Listening to users is actually one of the main effort Blomap is going to make. One of next Blomap’s projects is to create... Read more