About
What is the ‘Indian Blog and New Media Society’ (IBNMS)?
The IBNMS is a not-for-profit grouping of all stakeholders – as defined below - in the blog and new media space from India – but open to membership from all over the world.
The basic idea behind bringing this grouping together is to enable all stakeholders to collaborate and learn from one another, growing together by creating greater relevancy for new media forms and in the process gaining greater visibility to be able to make these publishing platforms more impactful in the Indian and global context.
What is New Media?
New Media cannot have a watertight definition; its highly dynamic and ever-evolving nature is what lends the term ‘new’ to it. With convergence of all forms of media happening all around us, one can only come up with a more broad description of New Media.
New Media can be said to cover all forms of digital content accessible through internet and mobile connectivity. In the context of IBNMS, we can add a rider to it: It should be democratic in nature, allowing anyone (in theory at least) to be publisher, creator or broadcaster of New Media and also be able to freely (need not imply free, or gratis) access the same.
A list (not exhaustive) of what constitutes New Media can be as follows:
- Blogs
- Internet Radio and Podcasts
- Internet TV and Videocasts
- On-demand Video
- Digital Entertainment
- News and Features websites
- Wikis
- Mobile blogs and other media properties
- Twitter or Microblogging
- Photo Sharing
- Internet Art
- E-books and E-zines
- Social Media
- User generated content
- Digital advertising and marketing, PR 2.0
…and more.
Who can be a part of IBNMS?
There are no restrictions on who can be a part of the IBNMS – either as individuals or organizations. Members can fall into the following categories:
- Publishers, Broadcasters, Authors, Creators of New Media. Individuals or organizations, they could be doing this for professional reasons, for fun, as a hobby, for a cause of greater public good, or for any personal reasons.
- Consumers of New Media, mostly individuals who track, read, view and listen to new media content.
The above could be further broken down as follows, in no particular order of importance (not exhaustive):
- Bloggers and Microbloggers
- Journalists, writers, contributors, authors, content creators for new media
- Traditional media professionals
- Corporate Communications and PR professionals
- Blog and new media consultants, vendors, service providers etc.
- Technology Analysts
- Corporates
- NGOs
