1. What is Bighow?
Bighow.com is a multi-purpose platform and tool for sharing news, classifieds and listings. It is backed by an active newsroom of writers who create guides and roundups on a daily basis.

We started Bighow for people who want to share any information about themselves and about where they live. Kind of 'Wordpress (blogging) + Del.icio.us (bookmarking) + Craigslist (local information)'.

Slowly, it turned out that a core group of news writers were more active, forming the ad hoc newsroom.

These are some of the things we believe in, aka The Bighow Manifesto

But, we want to remind you that you use Bighow to share commercial information as well - classifieds, resumes, listings etc.
 

All Bighow content is Google-friendly and everything is community moderated, so people can flag any objectionable items to promote deletion.

2. What can users share using Bighow?
News: community news articles, links, Q&As, polls, events, announcements, forums.
Classifieds: For sale, wanted, services, vehicles, housing, travel, vacations, products, coupons & more.
Listings: Resume, Personals and Business Profiles.

To know how to use Bighow for your benefit, read this.
To learn more about publishing options on Bighow, click on the Publish link on top right after you have registered.
To know more about Bighow features, read here.
To learn how to use Bighow best, use the Help page or see this presentation.

3. What is special about Bighow?
We like writers who give opinions and analysis - we appreciate people with original, against-the-grain voices.
We like writers who raise issues and debate about local issues and news in our community and forum areas.
We hate spammers just as much as you do and remove items indiscriminately.

To know more about what's okay and not okay on our news platform, click here

If you want write news articles for Bighow, send and email at pramit.news@gmail.com
Of course, you write in other categories, but being a part of our news room means you get a place on the homepage.

We expect our news room contributors to focus on doing two main types of writeups:
1. Topic Roundups: Aggregating what the internet thinks about the latest news topic and then adding your analysis to it as well.
2. Original reporting: This includes first-hand news reports, interviews with people in the news, experiences, on-the-spot reporting and similar things.

To learn how to write well on Bighow, read this.

4. Where do I start?
Start by registering at this URL http://bighow.com/register.php. It hardly takes a minute. Do not forget to enter at least some idea of where you live, which helps other users and readers to locate you or your content.

5. Past, Present and Future

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

His online identities: http://mediavidea.blogspot.com, http://bighow.com/user/pramitsingh, http://twitter.com/pramit, http://facebook.com/pramitsingh, http://slideshare.net/pramitsingh

Present: Who runs Bighow?
Bighow is managed by Pramit Singh. He is the Managing Editor. The backend work is done by developer Joydeep Bhattacharya.

Future: We plan to develop a 100 City network of online journalists, editors and web curators who will collaborate to filter all useful information on the Internet on a daily basis.

6. What does 'Bighow' mean?
So far, we have manage to agree that Bighow stands for 'how big online publishing really is'.

7. To Know more Or To offer Suggestions
Use the Feedback Form http://bighow.com/feedback or email pramit.news@gmail.com

last updated: May 2010