Top Five Ways Blog Carnivals Make Blogging Better
With perfect timing, Mike at 10,000 Birds posted Top Five Ways Blog Carnivals Make Blogging Better.
The most important to me are the last two: contact and community. I blogged last month about virtual communities and the people you meet online. Even though I've only been back in blogging a few months, I'm already beginning to find I'm on the edges of a network - reading and being read by - bloggers who care about the environment, conservation, wildlife, native plants, and local communities. I've discovered some links through blogrolls, but others through carnivals (I and the Bird, Festival of the Trees, Good Planets) that show let us show our best face, and the words or pictures we're most excited about, to the rest of the community.
Carnivals help us turn our monologues into conversations. Without someone reading and responding, I would not have the feedback that helps me improve those words and pictures. I wouldn't learn nearly so much about the world, nor see and read and learn from others.
Do I care about lots of links and page rankings? No, not particularly. But I don't want to talk to myself, either. I can do that without a computer.
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I've found a few through birds etcetera-He lists every birding related blog he finds.-I don't know too much about this carnival deal but I'll keep a look-out for them.
I just like to blog....
Hi, Larry - thanks for stopping by and commenting. I'll look for birds etcetera.
Carnivals - blog carnivals, that is - are moderated collections of posts that are hosted by different blogs on a periodic basis. So, for example, one month Wrenaissance Reflections might volunteer to host Mike's carnival, I and the Bird (also known as IATB). Contributors would send posts or photos to me, I'd pull them together into one post and link them with a commentary or theme, and then publish the compilation as an entry in my blog. Mike, the contributors, and I would all publicize the carnival, which will have regular followers just like individual blogs.
Mike's post explains really well the advantages to doing this - for me, it's good publicity for Wrenaissance, a chance to connect with fellow bloggers who have similar interests, and an opportunity to showcase my best work.
As we say, What's not to like?
Great reason, Jimmy. It's probably true for most if not all of us, and so ingrained that we never think to mention it.
"Without someone reading and responding, I would not have the feedback that helps me improve those words and pictures. I wouldn't learn nearly so much about the world, nor see and read and learn from others."
I agree completely!
Thanks for your visit...
Thanks for stopping by, bitterroot. I've been enjoying the words and pictures on your blog.
Good post. The feedback makes it all so fun...
and addicting.
So true, FC.
Not that I'm addicted. I can quit blogging any time I want. I just don't want to quit.
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