The Best of the Mommy Bloggers Carnival call for hosts and posts
A carnival is a blogging event and "The Best of the Mommy Bloggers Carnival" takes place every two weeks and features recent posts from the cream of the mommy blogger community.
This is how it works: every two weeks a different mommy blogger “hosts” the carnival. The blogger community submits their best post from the past month -- this could be your most popular post, something that has done well on StumbleUpon or Digg, or one of which you are particularly proud.
The rules are one post per blogger and it must be something written in the past four weeks.
The host blogger then compiles the carnival. Check out the ones below for examples.
All of the submitters help publicize in some way -- Twitter, Facebook, a blog post, a link...
This is a great way to create traffic and link love to all sites involved.
I will organise and keep the schedule on A Modern Mother (below).
I am looking for hosts -- please email me at amodernmother (at) gmail (dot) com if you would like to host a carnival.
Carnival of Mommy Bloggers schedule:
The November 4 Best of the Mommy Bloggers Carnival
The November 18 Best of the Mommy Bloggers Carnival
The December 2 Best of the Mommy Bloggers Carnival
The December 16 Best of the Mommy Bloggers Carnival
The January 13 Best of the Mommy Bloggers Carnival
The January 27 Best of the Mommy Bloggers Carnival
The February 10 Best of the Mommy Bloggers Carnival
February 24 Best of the Mommy Bloggers Carnival
The March 10 Best of the Mommy Bloggers Carnival
The March 24 Best of the Mommy Bloggers Carnival
The April 7 Best of the Mommy Bloggers Carnival
The April 21 Best of the "Expat" Mommy Bloggers Carnival
The May 5 Best of the Mommy Bloggers Carnival
The May 19 Best of the Mommy Bloggers Carnival
The June 2 Best of the Mommy Bloggers Carnival
The June 30 Best of the Mommy Bloggers Carnival
July 14 will be hosted at Tiger Twins in the Bayou. Please email entries to angelice (at) GeminiGreetings (dot) com.
July 28 will be hosted at Every Day Mamma Drama. Please email entries to amyeaton (at) sbcglobal (dot) net.
August 11 will be hosted at It's my Life. Please email entries to kikadesa (@) yahoo (dot) com.
August 25 will be hosted at Goodies for Mom. Please email entries to lois (at) goodieformom (dot) com.
September 8 will be hosted at Travel Bargain Mamas. Please email entries to shree (at) travelbargainmama (dot) com.
September 22 will be hosted at Everyday Baby Steps. Please email entries to marydaviswrites (at) gmail (dot) com.
October 6 will be hosted at Conversations with Moms. Please email entries to info (at) conversationswithmoms (dot) com.
October 20 will be hosted at Frugal Creativity. Please email entries to frugalcreativity (at) gmail (dot) com.
Photo credit: gbastini
Count me in. Just give me a date. And probably a reminder..tee hee.
Posted by: Treemama | 15 October 2008 at 06:55 PM
An easier way to organize a blog carnival is through BlogCarnival.com - I'm not affiliated with the site, but I've both participated in and created blog carnivals through the site and it keeps everything in the same format and organized really well. Instead of having folks e-mail their entries to each host, you might want to set it up through there.
Posted by: AmyV | 15 October 2008 at 08:24 PM
Thanks for putting this together! I dropped you a note, and I would love to be involved.
peace,
-LaSara
http://www.lasarafirefox.com
Posted by: LaSara | 16 October 2008 at 03:48 AM
I sent an email! I would love to take part:)
Posted by: Jennifer | 18 October 2008 at 05:56 AM
I want in! my best post ever would have to be todays! http://mybizzyworld.blogpost.com I hope I make it, can I do june maybe??? LOL
carole harris
Posted by: carole harris | 03 November 2008 at 08:06 PM
I submitted it to blog carnival when we did it and when we have our carnival, I submit all of our materials, so it's hosted at both places :)
Posted by: Julie@Cool Mom Guide | 23 November 2008 at 06:18 PM
Hey there, just letting you know that the call for entries is up at Yoga Mama Satsangha!: http://www.yogamamasatsangha.blogger.com.
peace,
-LaSara
http://www.lasarafirefox.com
Posted by: LaSara | 06 December 2008 at 05:14 PM
Of course, that url is wrong. It's http://www.yogamamasatsangha.blogspot.com!
Posted by: LaSara | 06 December 2008 at 05:16 PM
Scratch what I said about me putting it at blog carnival. I entered it and a ton of people signed up for it so I ended up having to put one on my site to be fair to them. I'm just now starting to understand how that site works!
Posted by: Julie@Cool Mom Guide | 09 December 2008 at 12:44 AM
I just sent you an email too. I'd love to host one:)
Posted by: Shreejana Hickman | 05 May 2009 at 03:18 PM
Hi,
I'd love to take part in the blog carnival. Cindy at themommaven dot com.
Posted by: Cindy | 18 May 2009 at 12:24 AM
Sent an email about hosting a couple of days ago x
Posted by: clareybabble | 28 May 2009 at 07:44 AM