You can access all the latest posts from some great blogs at FireEMSBlogs.com
FireEMSBlogs.com is a “community” of Fire Blogs, EMS Blogs, Fire/EMS Blogs, Training Blogs, and even News Blogs related to the Fire/EMS service. Let me start off by saying that I am not speaking for FireEMSBlogs.com, I am merely explaining my view of what it is and what it isn’t. I don’t work for them.
What we are….Independent blogs which operate in a community. Think of “The Kitchen Table” over at FireRescue1. Kinda. Actually, some of the bloggers you see in this community also write for The Kitchen Table blog. Maybe even the family of bloggers over at Firehouse.com or FireEngineering.com…but not quite. All of those bloggers are writing specifically for those publications (web sites).
The creators of FireEMSBlogs.com merely took independent blogs and brought them into a community. That community feeds off of each other through commonalities like certain areas of the each blogs template.
What we aren’t…We don’t write for anyone but ourselves and our readers. The stuff we write is born of our own thoughts and we are to blame if we piss you off. There is no oversight from FireEMSBlogs.com on our content, although I am sure there are some rules somewhere along the way to prevent things like pornography for example.
FireEMSBlogs.com got started a couple of months ago and I decided to hop on board with FireCritic.com. I did this after many questions about the new community and I needed to know what it was and what it wasn’t. After all, I didn’t want anyone telling me what to do or what not to do. After finding the answers to my questions, I decided to take the plunge into the unknown. I figured at least there would be an increase in traffic so it couldn’t hurt.
In the end, or the beginning of FireEMSBlogs.com if you want to look at it that way, I am happy with my decision. I have been able to maintain if not increase traffic and I have become a part of a very powerful community.
Not too many people know about the community though. There hasn’t been much mention of FireEMSBlogs.com or what it is. That is mainly due to the building, maintaining, designing, and adjusting by the men and women who run it. The individual bloggers have been adjusting to the new platform and trying to garner the potential content of having our stuff show up on other blogs.
That being said, they have been marketing our content through several different mediums. For the most part, this has been through their facebook page of Firefighter Nation or the facebook page for JEMS Connect. They also have twitter accounts they use to network. In case you didn’t know, Firefighter Nation and JEMS Connect are brought to you by the same people as FireEMSBlogs.com.
Throughout the homepage for FireEMSBlogs.com there are various ways of seeing content, popular content, and the newest content from the individual blogs in the community.
For instance, STATter911.com is a very popular site. I don’t have any numbers so don’t ask. What I do know is that I get a decent bit of traffic from Dave when my stories show up on the global footers, or my banner shows up on the global header. If you don’t know what I am referring to, scroll all the way to the bottom and you will see 4 stories by bloggers in our community. It is a powerful networking tool.
When you get a chance, check out FireEMSBlogs.com. The site is really only one page that offers the most recent stories by the bloggers in the community. It also offers a Blog of Note in the top right. Even more cool is that you can scroll by topic and see what we are writing about any specific issue.
Outside of the “global” areas of our individual sites maintained by FireEMSBlogs.com, we have full control of what shows up on our posts and pages.
I guess you could think of FireEMSBlogs.com as being an rss reader of all of the blogs in the community. There are some great blogs here. As new posts are written by the various blogs they show up on the front page at the top and drop off the bottom as new posts are written.
So there you have it…FireEMSBlogs.com in a nutshell as I see it. There have been many blogs added since its inception and there will be more to come.
In case you don’t know what blogs are on here, there is a dropdown menu at the top of the page. I will also incorporate all of the blogs by listing them below. I only realize now that I should have named this site AAAA Fire Critic!
- A Firefighters Own Worst Enemy
- Ambulance Driver Files
- Backstep Firefighter
- Chief Reason
- Command Safety
- Fire Critic
- Fire Daily
- Fire Geezer
- Firefighter Blog
- Firehouse Zen
- Happy Medic
- Life Under the Lights
- Medic 22
- Medic 999
- Medic Three
- Raising Ladders
- S.A.F.E. Firefighter
- STATter 911
- Street Watch
- The Company Officer
- Tiger Schmittendorf
- Traditions Training
Hey, like the towing companies do in my area, the aaa towing, aaa certified towing…..you get the picture. I say you should try it. For me, it was pure coincidence. Take care.
I'm officially changing to AAAFirehouseZen. Ahhh, I don't like the way that looks. Great post and a pretty insightful explanation as to our existence. Recently I got called out as a “mouthpiece for the man”, which I thought was a little amusing since I've been after Dave since the 90's (when I was writing for him over at Firehouse) to give me some feedback on my writing and he's never once said, “you know, I need you to write something to make us look good”. In fact, he's never said that what I'm writing isn't drivel either. Maybe that's a good thing…
Anyway, excellent job. Keep up the good work.
AAAAAmen, Rhett;
I think you pretty much nailed it.
Very insightful.
I like the interaction and support from the other FEMSbloggers.
Almost feels like “family”.
All of these posts with the “AAAAAAA's” makes me think of Porky Pig trying to pronounce the blog names. Just thought I'd share.
Nice Porkies reference!!!!
Nice Porkies reference!!!!