The year 2005 was a very important year for the Tunisian blogosphere, with the number of bloggers growing amazingly and quickly.
A Tunisian blog directory and aggregator were launched, we started having our regular monthly meetups, a Tunisian blog service was created; and the first building blocks of a vibrant blogger community were put in place.
Towards the end of 2005 and the beginning of this year, the number of blogs is still rising, with an even quicker pace. And it looks like 2006 is shaping up to be the year of the Tunisian blogosphere.
Karim has put up a list of the things he hopes to see happening in the Tunisian blogosphere this year; I thought that was a great idea, and I thought I’d share my vision and hopes for this year too.
I hope:
– to get to spread blogging even more between Tunisians.
– to get more Tunisian bloggers from outside the capital.
– to see some new bloggers outside the average age fork (20s, 30s).
– all bloggers actively try to spread blogging between the people they know.
– we see the creation of more professional theme specific blogs.
– some public or famous Tunisian figures take up blogging.
– we see more diversity and more different profiles among new Tunisian bloggers.
– some more creative blog-centric projects start popping up in Tunisia.
– to see more coverage about local stories and events in blogs.
– more photos are taken and some photologs are created.
– to see Tunisian bloggers becoming more active in the international blogging scene.
That’s what came to mind right now. I’m sure I can come up with a lot more if I think more about it.
I wish that all our hopes for the Tunisian blogosphere start coming true this year.
For selfish reasons, I wish more Tunisian blogs were in English. I suppose I could just as easily wish to learn French, so that I could read more of them.
I’ll be in Tunis mid-Feb. through mid-May. I’ll continue to blog while there (with lots of photos!) and hope to be able to attend a blogger meet-up.
I think the proposals are very good, they give a framework strategic, able to direct our actions and the publication of the posts during the time to come. I agree as with Jenny for saying as the fact of writing in French reduces our visibility on the NET, therefore will be necessary can be more to write in English
Thanks MMM, I think that we can do many things, we have an active todo list !
Jenny, I agree with you and m2k that it would be great to have more Tunisian blogs in English, as it would open the Tunisian blogosphere more to the world and give us more visibility.
m2k, I hope some, if not all, of these ideas are realized this year. It would be great for our blogosphere.
Karim, yep, I agree. We have a nice fat todo list, and we should start moving to get it done 🙂