Introduction

1. What is Bighow?

Bighow.com is a multi-purpose blogging+bookmarking platform for sharing & publishing useful and interesting stories. Bighow is the only tool that you can use to share and publish virtually anything in one place - News articles, Classifieds, Listings and more.

Bighow removes the clutter of web 2.0 tools & services and is the world's first to do so.

Think of Bighow as 'Wordpress (blogging)  + Del.icio.us (bookmarking) + Craigslist (local information)'.

Easy Local Publishing: Anything that you share using Bighow, is automatically tagged (with options for editing) with your previously submitted information about your location during registration.

We like to think that Bighow is the World's Best Tool for Sharing Local Information.
 

2. What can users share using Bighow?

i) News: community news articles, links, Q&As, polls, events, announcements,  forums.

ii) Classifieds: For sale, wanted, services, vehicles, housing, travel, vacations, products, coupons and matrimonials.

iii) Listings: Resume, Personals and Business Profiles.

To know more about Bighow features, read here.

3. How and when do I use Bighow?

How to use: To learn how to use Bighow best, see this presentation.

When to use: We also have a nifty guide to how different types of users can use Bighow for their benefit - businessmen, students, journalists, teachers and so on. Read more
 

4. When you say local information, Is there any limit to countries or cities on Bighow?

No, not at all. Bighow is open to all cities, countries and neighborhoods in the world.

5. What are you planning to do about Local Business Publishing?

We want to make it all open - making it possible that local listings such as business profiles and resumes are not hidden inside walled gardens.

A listing on Bighow helps you create a distinctly readable address for their listing and getting direct feedback trough comments, among other things.

e.g. "http://bighow.com/resume/pramit-singh-wannabe-media-mogul"

You will agree, a resume with a title like "Pramit Singh, Wannabe media mogul" sounds better than "(jobsite.com) resume ID no....."

Post anywhere, share on Bighow: You can post your resume or business profile on your blog or website and bookmark the link using Bighow.

Pretty soon, we will be adding more features to our listings section.

6. What are your goals for local journalism?

We hope Bighow is used by amateur and professional journalists alike.

For example, we hope local papers use Bighow to tag useful information.

We hope to develop a global network of journalists and online publishers of all types.

We will back it up with a team of a editors/curators who will act as guides and help for writers everywhere.

We will be creating a dedicated section on educating, training and helping online journalists.

Our special section for educating Online Journalists is already up and running at http://bighow.com/journalism.

Training and networking events for online journalists are also on the cards.
 

7. How did it all start?

Bighow was founded by Pramit Singh, a media blogger from New Delhi, India in 2007.

Blog URL: http://mediavidea.blogspot.com
 

8. Who runs Bighow?

Bighow is managed by Pramit Singh. He is the sole editor. The backend work is done by developer Joydeep Bhattacharya.
 

9. What are you core values?