EDIT – Great forum for all newbie bloggers. The new Newbie Blogger Initiative
Ok, so it turns out that the Newbie blogger forums are no more unfortunately and coming into the one year anniversary of the event it seems a shame. Syp at Bio Break began it all but the forums were a hive of networking that helped a lot of great blogs get started, a decent amount which are still active . Shadowspawned over at world’s end Tavern posted a list of all the blogs that started and their current status, ocho has a wrap-up of his favourites, and I’m guessing there will be a few more over the week.
What upset me a little about the nbi forum shutting was that there was a wealth of great guide to blogging posts. Luckily for me, back when I was going through that information it was badly organised so I felt the need to categorise it for my own use… Yes, I’m cukoo crazy about organisation. I’m messy as hell but everything has its proper place to be packed away.
Anyway here’s the list.. Oh and feel free to take this list for a better resource page if it every pops up.
Introducing yourself to the world
Tish Tosh Tesh: Who Am I?
Jaded Alt: What’s in a name?
Inventory Full:Take a moment
Levelcapped: Tell me about yourself, None of my business
Contains Moderate Peril: Episode 58
Too Many Annas: Picking a name
ALT:ernative: Starting at the beginning
MMOGC: 3 little things
KIASA: Good advice
General
MMO GYPSY: Different Ways to Contribute
StarShadow: Some blogging advice
In An Age: Advice for new bloggers
Tish Tosh Tesh: For love or money
Tastes Like Battle Chicken: A few words of wisdom
‘Beau Hindman: General advice
Games and Geekery: Why you should blog, Learning about blogging from perfect strangers
Skycandy: Blogging wrong, blogging right
Shards of Imagination: Choosing the subject of your blog
Contains Moderate Peril: Some general guidance, Stats
Contains Moderate Peril: Stats
High Latency Life: Finding your voice, You need a thick skin
Nerdy Bookahs: Why do you want to blog?, Why haven’t you started your blog yet?
World’s End Tavern: General tips
Parallel Context: The best advice
Jaded Alt: So you wanna be a blogger?, If you remember nothing else… write!
Avatars of Steel: Curling up with a good blog
Blog de la Burro: Why I started blogging, Some advice on blogging, Does traffic matter?, How to deal with writer’s block, What you should blog about, Are comments important?
Inventory Full: Take a moment
Gamerlady: Tips to start
T.R. Red Skies: Quick tips, Objectivity, relating and heart
Thade’s Hammer: Advice for the new bloggers
Psychochild: What makes your blog special
Grimnir’s Grudge: It feels good to be a blogger
Gankalicious: Never tell the truth, Who the hell reads this?
Distilled Willpower: 8 blogging tips they won’t tell you
Vicarious Experience: From there to here
Blue Kae: Advice is a strong word
Screaming Monkeys: Top five tips
Caer Morrighan: Get started with WoW blogging
Hawt Pants: New blogger advice
Tiger Ears: Why I started blogging
Berath’s Brain Burps: Sage words,
Just One More Unlock: Newbie blogger tips, Opportunity
Scary Worlds – Advice you don’t won’t to hear
Hunter’s Insight:What not to do
ALT:ernative: The first idea
A Journey through the Mind: My 0.2 ISK
Epic Slant: Writer’s block
Creeping…: So you think you can blog
The Stories of O: Top 4 tips
The Wild Boar Inn: Blogging tips
Gamer BC: A solid foundation and a step forward
Casual Is As Casual Does: Tips, tricks and who am I kidding
Pumping Irony: Before taking the plunge
Sheep the Diamond: Advice from an old bull
Better Posting
Tish Tosh Tesh: Thinking linking, Traditions
Tales of the Aggronaut: Be open-minded (unlike me)
Wadstomp Gaming: Create your own voice
Lotro Fashion: Screenshots make your blog interesting
Contains Moderate Peril: Mind your language
Tremayne’s Law: Read Think Write Edit
Blog de la Burro: Is it ever okay to rant?
A Casual Stroll to Mordor: Writing for the web
A Green Mushroom: Blogging tips and hints
TL-DR:Tags and Categories
Red Cow Rise: What and why to post
Welcome to Spinksville: What you should write and how to write it
A Ding World: Blog posting
Professor Beej: Stop writing!
Life is a Mind-Bending Puzzle: Wrapping up advice all in one place
Social
Tish Tosh Tesh: Blogging is a social activity
Wadstomp Gaming: The importance of social media
Beau Hindman: Indie games and bloggers
World of Matticus: Making connections
Blog de la Burro: How to get noticed
I Have Touched the Sky: Avoid barriers to commenting on Blogger, Blogs lists and RSS
Gankalicious:Meeting interesting people
Epic Slant: Tips and links, Guest post
Red Cow Rise: Blog setup and community building
The Ancient Gaming Noob: Playing blogroll breadcrumbs
Rikna’s Rants: The blog rings, By this keyboard I rule!, Guests and cross posts
Customisation
StarShadow: Themes and widgets, Screenshots, Menus, categories and tags
World of Matticus: WordPress plugins, Finishing your blog setup
Live Like a Nerd: WordPress plugins for bloggers
Self Hosting
Stropp’s World: The pros and cons of self-hosting
Tales of the Aggronaut: Getting started
Techincal Bitsies
Tales of the Aggronaut: The Google Reader blogroll
Inventory Full: Backing up your blog
Spinksville: Picture manipulation tools and copyright
A Casual Stroll to Mordor: Learn how to podcast
Herding Cats: Creating a podcast on the cheap with WordPress
TL-DR: Protect your blog!
Roll One Hundred: Managing screenshots
Making it big
Stropp’s World: Being a blogger superstar
Wadstomp Gaming: The best advertising payouts
Contains Moderate Peril: Fine-turning your blog
Berath’s Brain Burps: How to get lots and lots of hits
Dragonchasers: How not to build an audience
Recentish Posts
The Delver: A retrospective for 2013’s Class
Healing the Masses: Newbie Blogger Words of Wisdom
Geek Force Network: One Tip all Bloggers should know (networking)
World Of Matticus: Behind the Blogging Scenes Interview
Keen And Graev’s Gaiming Blog: Had a number of ones, here’s the tag to see them all
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Healing the masses 
Oh, how great to see the collection here. 🙂
Just yesterday, I got an email with a pingback request from an entry that was posted about a year ago. So when yours came in, I thought it’s also from last year or so. Nice to see somebody linking to all the posts again. It was a great initiative!
Thanks. Just didn’t want these posts to get lost as there was some great information for new bloggers in it. Hopefully it keeps going and people will still use it.
It is nice to see everyone is still interested in NBI. I checked with Syp about possibly doing it again but he was too busy this year. I like that you have the articles listed. A great resource for anyone interested. I will add a link back on my post.
Awwww that’s a shame. I thought it was an amazing thing it pretty much started me in reading blogs, and then eventually starting my own. I love to see it continue as it really demystified the whole blogging thing for many and made it easier with all the networking and such.
Thank you kindly for your mention! And I like the way you’ve organised us all :). I’m having a think, seems a shame not to carry on some kind of list/place for new people/catch up with each other every year, I don’t know, something. Hub? Annual Virtual Party? What do you think? (I favour the last)(of course).
Virtual Party Woooooo
Jep – I’m making the virtual gaucamole right now!
You could always start it up again! See what people have learned over the past year for blogging (those that stuck it out, at least).
If people compared me to Syp I assure you I’d come off the worse hahaha – no, but I’ve but a post up and will collate and link to any thing anyone of us writes about it, or any extra advice – huggies !!!
Thanks for creating this overview. I’ve read some advice articles over again, but oh my, there are so many! I’ll have to return here and look some more up some day. There are some really good ones over there, indeed a shame if they would’ve been hidden away.
In a crazy moment, I made a badge for all NBI participants. Here’s yours: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/–fOKjyBrwGg/UYwt64emjXI/AAAAAAAADJM/y9fhMWZzU9k/s512/NBI%2520badge.png 🙂
thanks for the work, it’s an awesome new badge.
ooh, and now that your here why not trying writing your own little advice/story piece for future bloggers. No pressure… ok just a little pressure
My own advice post? I think everything I can think of has already been covered by at least one of the articles above. However, I’ll think about it. Who knows, if there will ever be a NBI 2nd edition…
Super Awesome Index! Thank you so much for Saving & Organizing this! GO Packrats!!!
Not so much a packrat… moe that the jumbled mess it was before was driving me insane.. I have an insatiable need to organise at time.. Glad you liked it!!
Also, no need to link to me, just copy it down for your site as it will be easier for people to access
Comment is a bit late, but I just want to say thanks for mentioning my post on Geek Force Network. I’m flattered you think it’s a good enough reference source to include on this awesome list!