Birdwatchers Worldwide Flock to Register at Free Online Birding Resource
The new bird watching community chatterBirds.com has had more than 500 birdwatchers register for a free membership during its premier launch month.
Cambridge, United Kingdom, July 24, 2009 --(PR.com)-- All the attention surrounding the thriving birding network hasn’t gone unnoticed as WebUser magazine, the UK’s best selling internet publication have highlighted chatterBirds.com as one of the websites of the month. A recognition the chatterBirds team are very proud of.
So why is everyone whistling sweet tweets about the new site www.chatterBirds.com?
Paul Searle Development Director explains “Our mission is to create a place for birdwatchers to share their passion with others in an informative, fun and interactive style, utilising the latest online technology. We develop online tools to bring birding people of all abilities together in a new and innovative style, providing the latest communication functions to enhance and share people’s passion for birds.”
So exactly what are these tools you mention?
Paul continues “The community offers tools to support the challenges of bird watching, such as the ‘bird identifier’ for confirming species sightings and the ‘locate species’ function - a search function for finding species sightings in your part of the world. Other features allow members to store and share images, search a database of birding hotspots, keep an online bird diary, join and create groups and share birding activities, leave comments and write articles. The community is still evolving and we have more developments in the pipeline, but we wont give them all away just yet!”
So how can an online bird watching resource providing more features than many mainstream social communities offer free registration?
From the forum comments it looks like chatterBirds.com have acquired an enthusiastic niche following. A few quips from reviews and members include ‘a facebook for birdwatchers’ a comment that Sales & Marketing Director Zak Jacobs was quick to play down.
“I think first and foremost this is very much a community for birding and nature enthusiasts, heading in a direction that will be dictated by our user requests and requirements. This is quite an unusual approach to take but we aim to create an experience that differs from any other online birding forum or resource. We don’t want to create functions and feel like we are forcing users to play with them. Our existing bird tools have received a very positive response and of course they are all free?”
“We are adopting a (an organic?) very natural approach to building our community through various social networks and predominantly relying on word of mouth from users. This reduces marketing costs significantly and provides more funding to support our development aim of creating the world’s most dynamic online bird watching community. With more than 500 registered users following our first month we are excited about the growth potential of the chatterBirds web site.”
Paul Searle goes on to say “We will be looking in the future for additional ways of funding the site, possibly though sponsorship or collaborative arrangements with individuals or organisations interested in working with us. A number of parties have contacted us already, however we are keen to take our time during this process to ensure that the arrangements support our member’s interests and the direction we move in is for the good of our popular birdwatching community.”
If you have an interest in birds and nature, or are looking to learn more or find a new hobby, the chatterBirds.com bird watching community provides the perfect one-stop online resource to enhance your bird watching enjoyment and experience. Go to www.chatterbirds.com
All commercial enquiries can be made to Paul Searle at psearle@chatterbirds.com
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So why is everyone whistling sweet tweets about the new site www.chatterBirds.com?
Paul Searle Development Director explains “Our mission is to create a place for birdwatchers to share their passion with others in an informative, fun and interactive style, utilising the latest online technology. We develop online tools to bring birding people of all abilities together in a new and innovative style, providing the latest communication functions to enhance and share people’s passion for birds.”
So exactly what are these tools you mention?
Paul continues “The community offers tools to support the challenges of bird watching, such as the ‘bird identifier’ for confirming species sightings and the ‘locate species’ function - a search function for finding species sightings in your part of the world. Other features allow members to store and share images, search a database of birding hotspots, keep an online bird diary, join and create groups and share birding activities, leave comments and write articles. The community is still evolving and we have more developments in the pipeline, but we wont give them all away just yet!”
So how can an online bird watching resource providing more features than many mainstream social communities offer free registration?
From the forum comments it looks like chatterBirds.com have acquired an enthusiastic niche following. A few quips from reviews and members include ‘a facebook for birdwatchers’ a comment that Sales & Marketing Director Zak Jacobs was quick to play down.
“I think first and foremost this is very much a community for birding and nature enthusiasts, heading in a direction that will be dictated by our user requests and requirements. This is quite an unusual approach to take but we aim to create an experience that differs from any other online birding forum or resource. We don’t want to create functions and feel like we are forcing users to play with them. Our existing bird tools have received a very positive response and of course they are all free?”
“We are adopting a (an organic?) very natural approach to building our community through various social networks and predominantly relying on word of mouth from users. This reduces marketing costs significantly and provides more funding to support our development aim of creating the world’s most dynamic online bird watching community. With more than 500 registered users following our first month we are excited about the growth potential of the chatterBirds web site.”
Paul Searle goes on to say “We will be looking in the future for additional ways of funding the site, possibly though sponsorship or collaborative arrangements with individuals or organisations interested in working with us. A number of parties have contacted us already, however we are keen to take our time during this process to ensure that the arrangements support our member’s interests and the direction we move in is for the good of our popular birdwatching community.”
If you have an interest in birds and nature, or are looking to learn more or find a new hobby, the chatterBirds.com bird watching community provides the perfect one-stop online resource to enhance your bird watching enjoyment and experience. Go to www.chatterbirds.com
All commercial enquiries can be made to Paul Searle at psearle@chatterbirds.com
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