We had a member-driven idea. And we think you’ll love it.

What would happen if your newest post was Dugg and all your friends at BlogCatalog knew about it? And then what would happen if they Dugg it too, letting all of their friends know it. That would be pretty powerful, right?

In the next couple of days, BlogCatalog is launching a social Dashboard beta, a new feature that displays your latest activities across many social networks — Digg, Flickr, Last.fm, Twitter, YouTube, and many others. That means automatic cross-networking and promotion right from your personal profile page. It also means that the your post updates, Twitter comments, Digg submissions, and other activities will appear on the Dashboard of all your BlogCatalog friends, and maybe their friends too. This is the kind of networking that can make posts go viral. And that’s just for starters.

Our Dashboard will help you keep up on the activities of your friends. It’s almost like having the ultimate social network feed reader made up of your friends. In fact, everyone here at the BlogCatalog team thinks you’ll love it. It will help you streamline networking and stay up to date with friends across the Web. When they upload a new Flickr photo or submit a new article to Digg, you will know and you can then share it with your friends.

Use it promote your activities. Use it to keep up on friends.

We also think the Dashboard will strengthen the BlogCatalog community for you. It helps make profile pages much more dynamic, giving people a reason to visit them again and again. It’s what some bloggers told us they wanted.

Now, we would like to know what you think. Let us know after the launch. If you like it, great! If not, it’s super easy to opt out. We don’t think you will, but it really will give other members a reason to visit your profile page. They’ll be able to check for blog updates, Twitter messages, Flickr photo updates, Digg submissions, your YouTube videos and whatever else you might want to share. And by sharing with them, they might share with their friends.

We’ll be rolling out a beta version in the next few days. Please watch for it. And, let us know what you think!

You ask. We deliver. Seems simple to us!

In our ongoing effort to bring new tools and features that add value to your blogs and enhance blogging, your BlogCatalog team has recently partnered with SezWho to add its “comment rating and reputation management platform” to our network.

Now you will automatically be able to increase your exposure on all SezWho-enabled sites, expand your online network without having to join yet another social network, and have the option of adding a new BlogCatalog-SezWho widget to your blog.

Even if you don’t want SezWho features on your blog, you still benefit because your BlogCatalog avatar will appear on SezWho-enabled sites and link back to your profile page where new readers can discover your blogs.

Why SezWho?

There are several benefits to having a BlogCatalog-SezWho enabled site, but the choice is yours. Here’s how SezWho works and might work for you:

SezWho allows readers to rate each other’s comments. It adds this rating to cumulative rankings across SezWho-enabled sites. It encourages and rewards readers to provide worthwhile comments on your blog. And it provides an overall score associated with individual profiles and on individual subjects.

In other words, if you frequently comment on sites about Internet marketing, every comment you make, and every time someone votes your comment up, it increases your reputation in that subject area. Over time, you will become recognized as an expert in that area.

That helps your blog because when someone searches for “Internet marketing” (or whatever you enjoy blogging about) your avatar will be listed right alongside everyone else who comments on that subject. We think that’s cool.

How Do I Add SezWho To My Blog?

Adding the Sezwho plugin to your Wordpress or Typepad blog is easy. Just goto your Account page on BlogCatalog, click the ‘Manage’ link next to the blog you want to install SezWho on, and scroll down to the SezWho section. Once you submit your blog to SezWho you will receive further instructions on how to setup the plugin.

We’ll keep you up to date on future joint ventures with SezWho and other online service providers. And, of course, we’d really appreciate your feedback on the new joint venture.