Zimbio - Promote Your Blog With “Wikizines”

I ran across an interesting way to promote a blog yesterday. Zimbio.Com. From their web site:

“We enable our contributors to build wikizines - interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - with coverage of current events, cultural reference points, and niche areas of interest. We make it simple for people to compile the web’s most relevant and dynamic content into easily-searched topics, so readers can find and react to the full story from multiple perspectives.”

After submitting your blog for inclusion in Zimbio, you are given an opportunity to create or subscribe to “Wikizines”, a clever mash up of a wiki, social news and blogging. “Subscription Packs” offer you the ability to subscribe to combination of Wikizines. A blog widget allows you to place a button on your site for others to give “kudos” to your blog, improving your exposure in the Zimbio network. In theory, this should be a good way to increase readership to your posts. I’ll keep playing around with it and let you know what I’ve find out.