Somali Blogs Facebook Page

How many Somali bloggers do you think are out there? I'm not talking about blogs where users post/reblog pictures, but actual blogs where users actually write, whether it be a short poem or several paragraphs. A few thousand? A few hundred?

Let's admit it, if you were to count all the bloggers in the world and sort them by nationality/ethnicity, Somalis would probably be among the least, if not the least! We have so many people scattered around the globe, but yet so few bloggers. Why?

Blogging is an excellent and powerful tool that can be used for several reasons, from keeping in touch with family and friends, to promoting your ideas or a business. While a person can do that with Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook or the next big social networking site that comes along, blogging gives gives you your own piece of the internet; a website you can call your own, and best of all it's free. Through blogging and sharing your thoughts and ideas, you have the opportunity to meet amazing people from around the world.

That is why we've decided to create a Facebook page for the blog in an attempt to reach a wider audience and hopefully attract more Somali youth to start creating their own blogs. There are many good writers out there posting stories, notes and poems on social networks, and we hope that some of them will be attracted to the idea of blogging. Without a doubt many people will be exposed to the Somali blogs listed here with the help of the page, but only time will tell how many people start creating their own blogs.

From time to time, we'll also do a blog roundup and promote interesting or useful posts from the blogs and post them both here and on the Facebook page.

For now, we ask you guys to join the page and promote it as much as you can. Here's to hoping this works out and more people take up blogging...

The Reason Behind The Move

Hello dear bloggers and readers. Welcome to the new location. There are a few reasons for the move; the main one being the aggregator, or lack thereof. Wordpress, although with a clean and great user interface, lacks the feature we need most: to have the blog list updated each time someone publishes a new post on their blog. This way we can keep track of the latest updates from our fellow bloggers instead of going through the long process of opening each and every blog in hopes of finding an update.

The second reason, albeit not as significant, is simply cosmetic. Wordpress does not allow customization of templates and charges users a fee for the feature. We wanted to have the ability to be able to edit the template in the future if the need arises.

With that out of the way, I'd like to welcome all the new bloggers to the list. The list is over 50 people now and still growing as we are receiving new links each day. There are several Somali blogs marked 'Protected' so we haven't added them. So far we have blogs written in Somali, Arabic, English, and Norwegian. If you know of any other Somali blogs, drop us a line.

But am I the only one that gets this feeling that those aren't the only languages we'll see? I know somewhere out there is a Somali writing a blog in some other language, whether it be French, Portuguese, or Italian. It's just a matter of time.
 

Till then, browse through the list of bloggers and go do some exploring.