Building the Blogging The Boys community

by Brandon Worley on Dec 13, 2008 8:51 AM CST in Dallas Cowboys News

Blogging the Boys is growing. Earlier this year those of us who were here at BTB went through a change of formats that revolutionalized the way SB Nation communities were connected. We also have grown into the new template that encourages user participation and provides a forum for healthy, informed Dallas Cowboys discussions that is rarely found elsewhere.

Exactly one month ago, Blogging the Boys took another huge step forward when the site merged with the Blue and Silver Report (formerly The Boys Blog). The move brought together two of the most impassioned, loyal and smart Cowboys fan communities on the web, as well as bringing in two of the best Dallas Cowboys writers on the web, Rafael Vela and Raul Villaronga.

Since the merger, Blogging The Boys has seen a substantial and exponential rise in visitors and registered users. We have also seen record numbers in the game day threads, both in contributors and numbers of posts. While the transition has not been without its growing pains its easy to say that Blogging The Boys is better than it has ever been before, and will only continue to grow as we move forward into 2009.

With that being said, I would like to announce a few exciting new features in the BTB community.

A few days ago, Raf broke the news that Blogging The Boys now has a Twitter feed. For those of you who do not know what this is, it is what is known as a "microblog", an easy way for BTB readers to get quick updates about what is happening on the website. This will include teasers about future posts and interviews, as well as quick discussion topics that come up during a typical day at BTB.

You can find the BTB Twitter page at http://.twitter.com/BloggingTheBoys.

Signing up is free and the site is extremely easy to use. For those of you new to Twitter I am certain you will find it a great way to keep up not only with Blogging The Boys, but all of your friends and family as well. This is also another great way to connect with other users here at Blogging The Boys, and will help strengthen the community built here.

Continuing in the social networking realm, Blogging The Boys now has an official Facebook page for the website. Here you will also find updates about the website, news about future posts, and links to new articles.

You can find the BTB Facebook page here.

Once again for those of you new to Facebook, it is free for everyone and very user friendly.

Blogging The Boys now has an official email address, btbnationwide@gmail.com . Starting soon BTB will introduce a weekly mailbag feature, where we answer your emails about the Dallas Cowboys. We will do our best to respond to everyone either by email or on the weekly feature. We will also never use anyone's full name unless explicitly authorized.

Our inbox is also a great way to let us know how we are doing here at BTB, and to answer any questions you may have regarding the site.

Stay tuned for another exciting announcement about Blogging The Boys in the near future.

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Check this out............

Ed Werder getting heckled!!!! This is funny. The guy is kind of being an ass but its worth the watch……

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4xSSSH0x1c

by TARHEEL PAUL on Dec 13, 2008 9:19 AM CST reply actions

The guy tapes himself acting like a fool, and he has the nerve to calls Ed Werder a hack, funny!!

Werder’s article comes out a day before these in house meetings, hmm, sounds like he’s has it correct. And some of you with these asinine comments he’s making it up because T.O doesn’t answer his questions, please, Werder is a professional, this isn’t kindergarden.

Jerry Jones pretty quiet all week or running cover on friday, anything Jerry says is a flat out spin. You take Jerry at face value, a guy that will protect T.O everytime with the dumb comment of, he’s a competitor, haha, competitor, he’s only concerned about his stats, but throws his starting runnning back under the bus last week, Jerry gave some nifty spin back beddling. Wade Phillips knows nothing about meetings!!! Hey wade, you’re the headcoach for crying out loud, act like one and take control for once. Wade was brought here to fix the defense, Mr Fix it" but finally after a year and a half take control of calling that defense for which he was suppose to fix. Now he finallly takes credit for it this week when it starts playing well…Wade has no control over this team, everything runs through Jerry.

Newman THINKS the clubhouse is together, THINKS, that word choice right there tells you there’s problems in the locker room. T.O calling Calvin Watkins to plead his point, talking about how handsome he is, what does that have to do with anything, then takes a shot at Keyshawn, sounds like T.O is the jeolous one. hmm me thinks T.O doth protest too much…. What’s funny, that last year T.O and Tony used to call each other all the time, atleast that’s what they told everyone and hang out but this year, he never talks to Romo, hmmm, sounds like trouble in paridise to me..T.O doesn’t get the ball enough, only gets more passes directed his way than any other receiver in the league. Maybe if he ran the right route for a change or stop running on a route, he might catch them more, when he’s not dropping them… Get this fool off of this team after this year please, he’s a waste of time and space..This locker room is fractured, there’s no doubt about it, it’s not a school yard made up story by Werder, his article and the quotes from inside souces(players or assistants) clearly indicate there is, whether you want to believe it or not….

If this team doesn’t make the playoffs, wade is fired, and if Garrett is handed the job as the headcoach, he’s not going to want T.O back, that will be his first battle with Jerry, the enabler in this organization…

by Deke on Dec 13, 2008 11:31 AM CST up reply actions

Its a moot point if they win sunday and just take it one game and one drama at a time. I know

that you disagree with this statement but if I am wrong and they lose this sunday. I will gladly write a fanpost saying that your assessment is correct and their season is over and that TO needs to go, because the loss would have to been attributable to the distractions. If dallas cannot beat a team that is missing jacobs, plax, uminyora, and strahan with this off and with romo, then they have no hope of beating them even if they make the playoffs. We’ll see this sunday, but for what it’s worth, last week I felt that dallas would play well but I thought it was really 50/50 that they could win. This week I have the feeling that they will win 80/20 because I have a feeling that they will play at the same level defensively and romo will bounce back. The game will show that the fire in the lockerroom will bring them together or burn them alive.

Ignore the Mainstream Media, EMBRACE THE HATE!!!!

by cowboy78 on Dec 13, 2008 12:21 PM CST up reply actions

The 80/20 reflects their chances not the score.

Ignore the Mainstream Media, EMBRACE THE HATE!!!!

by cowboy78 on Dec 13, 2008 12:22 PM CST up reply actions

Give it up DEke

They are not going to “fire” TO for being TO.
He wants the ball….when he gets it…wein!!!
Not much mistery there…..Remember our december swoon of last year can be directly attributed to Owens health issues.

TO is a playmaker…Just get him the (damn) ball!!!!

You'll never get in a traffic jam,while going the extra mile. -Roger staubach

by TrueBlue24 on Dec 13, 2008 12:22 PM CST up reply actions