Rajib Roy

Think of BlogyMate as a combination of microblog, a normal blog and social media. Whereas Twitter and similar services limit posts to 140 characters or less, Wordpress, blogspot etc lets you post any length; BlogyMate lets you post updates of any length or limited length (500 characters). Moreover it introduces live blogging system. BlogyMate bridges the feature between full-blown blog and micro-blog with the feature of creating friends and follower. Why Use BlogyMate? Quite simply because BlogyMate makes setting up a blog very easy. It also makes it very simple for you to follow other blogger on the website and to share their content. Blogymate tries to combine the best parts of blogging and micro-blogging in one. It handles longer-form and multimedia posts, like regular blogs, while encouraging more interaction between Blogger, like micro-blogs and social media. Post Formats The fact that BlogyMate has built-in formats for a variety of content types makes it stand out from other blogging and micro-blogging platforms. There are templates for text, formatted text, photos, embedded videos, audio, author, attached file and programming syntax. Most themes take advantage of the differences between these post types and implement special formatting for each one. All templates you will add as section wise, each section will be represented one template but on blog post it will show as one article. It's a quite flexible and new system. Because of the unique post formats, BlogyMate makes a perfect platform for all kind of people for blogging. BlogyMate API The BlogyMate API has spawned plenty of third-party apps that let you retrieve information from BlogyMate. You can set up BlogyMate to automatically post to your Twitter too. For developers, the API opens a world of options for creating apps. The API itself is relatively straightforward and HTTP based, so any developer with small knowledge on asp, asp.net, php and XML can use it. Other Unique Features Like Twitter, BlogyMate lets you follow other users and view their posts in your Home Page (dashboard). Like Facebook, BlogyMate allows you to create friend to share information and make co-writing partner. BlogyMate gives you option to add a blog as you favourite to save it for your future information. It introduce a new option "Suggest", you can suggest any blog to your friend to read. Following and add as friend other users is very simple: just click the "Follow" or "Ad as Friend". When you click follow you will immediately start following that blogger but friend request need approval from other side. Blog Options BlogyMate gives you fairly complete control over how you blog. You can set up group article with multiple authors. BlogyMate also lets you keep some private option for your post. You can share it with your all, only friends, only friends and follower also you can set you can comments on this post, all, only friends or friends and follower. By default all blog status are "hide" (except micro blog) just make sure not to post to your article publicly by accident! Getting Started Starting out with BlogyMate is easy. Just register on the site by providing little information. You'll have the option to set up a custom domain name after you've signed up but for this you need to contact with BlogyMate team. Once your account is set up, you can start posting right away. Post your first blog After logged in you can find "Post article". Start your blogging by clicking that button and you will find three types of blog (Normal blog, Micro Blog, Live Blog), choose any one start writing. Each blog must need a thumbnail image. Widget Facebook page allow you to create public widget containing some live stream, fan pictures. BlogyMate also provide you widget to post your blog information on other site easily. This is also customizable, so you can customize what feature you want to display on that widget. RSS feed and Share BlogyMate generate RSS feed for each blogger and blog. After publishing each blog it display sharing option to share the post with social media and it create a Short Link for each post instantly. Short link is supported by BGM.ME (Official URL shortner for BlogyMate) Conclusion BlogyMate is a very easy platform to write your blog and it is updating everyday. For new blogger it will be the right place to publish blog. Similarly for large company or personal writing it will give you some good experience.