Where is Nuffnang headed towards?

Nuffnang has come quite a long way, and the inevitable question has come - what's next? It would be interesting to know what everyone has in mind regarding where Nuffnang is headed towards, as well as what they might have in mind as improvements for Nuffnang itself as a whole.

Nuffnang started back in (let's leave history to historians, alright?) off as a simple third-party sort of website to help link advertisers to bloggers via their own system. And till now, they have positioned themselves not only as a portal of sorts, but slowly as a growing community of bloggers, mainly from Singapore and Malaysia, and the community itself has been very active of late, particularly with the launch of Innit. Recently, Nuffnang has even headed a charity programme with Nike to help raise funds for the Make A Wish Foundation.

The launch of Innit has, indeed, helped drive traffic to bloggers who list their posts for others to view and comment. Of course, improvements can be made to the current system, as I blogged about previously. And in addition to that, I guess it would be good to have a profile page of sorts for Nuffnang bloggers. These pages could perhaps show some information about the bloggers themselves, as well as show their participation, if any, at Innit or any other of Nuffnang's events. This would help improve Nuffnang by positioning itself as a community in the blogosphere, not just another third-party website.

With the featured blogger segment on Nuffnang, bloggers are given a chance to share more about themselves with the rest of the Nuffnang community. Perhaps this segment could be repearted, but for Innit, by featuring a Innit post every month/week. Selection could be done by any of the Nuffnang staff, not purely by NangIt votes. This would also encourage more bloggers to actively participate, and to do so with a higher standard of posts - yet another step forward for the community as a whole.

A profile page and a featured post segment would definitely be a huge boon to Nuffnang and it's participating bloggers. Hopefully we would see similar programs implemented if possible, and that Nuffnangers would give their full support to help launch Nuffnang into the regional scene as one of the highly respected blogging communities - one thing I would definitely be proud of. Till then, carry on giving your fullest support!