Well as ScottsBigMouth has told you in the past couple of weeks...Today, May 1, 2008 is a BIG, BIG, BIG 'ol day for us. By us, I'm referring to the ScottsBigMouth "community" of readers, friends, colleagues, partners, and hangers-on that have supported the blog since it was launched. Tonight, after 7PM CST ScottsBigMouth.com becomes our official home.

Initially, ScottsBigMouth.com will look much like scottsbigmouth.blogspot.com. Over the next several weeks, though, "BigMouths" will notice a significant set of changes. Here's a rundown...

1. New site design: The beta version of the site, including new ScottsBigMouth logos, sections, social network, store, and fun shizzle!

2. ScottsBigMouth The Show: ScottsBigMouth.com is the home for The Show, which will be where all the BigMouths will congregate to share and create our own show for the Internet / Radio / TV / VOD / Podcast / and Mobile! Progressive content, activism, music, news, and commentary...we're going for a mashup of major national / international participation 5-days-a-week, collaborating with some of the hottest Partners and Citizen Producers around the planet to get it done. Stay Tuned!

3. Live events! ScottsBigMouth will be going on the road to take the show out to let BigMouths be part of it. Initially focused on the college circuit...later geographically-diverse, and locationally-aware. What does that mean, exactly? You'll help define it.

4. ScottsBigMouth swag! We're going to use the power of our sponsors, partners, and marketers to blow Oprah out of the water. Yeah, she gave away a bunch of cars, but we're going to have stuff that isn't even OUT THERE YET...BigMouths will be a hotbed of new hot stuff!

5. More activism. BigMouths will be able to participate in affinity activism directly through ScottsBigMouth.com. Focuses will be Progressive causes, environment, social justice, GLBTQ, job and student empowerment, and paying-it-forward. As with everything else...you'll be in the drivers seat through your inclusion and support for your issues.

6. Giveaways! ScottsBigMouth will be giving away cool stuff every day!

7. BigMouth Empowerment Fund. We're establishing a not-for-profit that will give away scholarships for skills training, sponsorships in worthy causes, and grants for BigMouths who deserve it.

So, that's where we're headed over the next year. Again, watch for more in the coming days, and remember ScottsBigMouth.com will be LIVE after 7PM CST tonight! (the Blogger site will refer to the new domain).

Thanks to everyone who has encouraged this big step...I look forward to meeting more BigMouths and even hiring some of you to build it!

So we need your help! ScottsBigMouth needs to hear from you! We've joined the Blog Reader Project and created a survey in order to learn more about your interests, and to create the experience that you desire and deserve in the new ScottsBigMouth website.

Please take the ScottsBigMouth Blog Reader Project survey.

And once you're done, drop me a line at scott@foval.com to let me know that you've completed it. The more people who take this survey, the more fine-tuned we can make the next version of ScottsBigMouth.

Happy May Day! Only 4 days to Cinco de Mayo!

Best,

Scott (scott@foval.com)