Comment Friday Winner
As we say goodbye to last weeks winner Jason Buckley, we welcome our new comment friday winner Jon Lee.
He was the first commentor that I visited and his content was pretty good, something I definitely wanted to read. After subscribing to his feed I read a little more.
Good luck with defeating your google twin!
Sorry the winner is a little late, but I’ve been a little sick.
Thanks to all the commentors! Another 20+. I’d really like to go up to 30 next week, we’ll see how that goes.
Have you left a comment on HarpzOn.com? He is donating 10$ to charity for every comment he receives on this post. Take a few seconds and make a difference.
MLB Team Outlooks
Over at CGBB, I have invited several guest bloggers to post season outlooks of the Major League Baseball teams they follow. So far, we have about half the teams covered and are looking for a few more who would be interested in contributing.
When you get a monent, visit CGBB and review some of the ’07 outlooks. If you happen to be a fan of a team that isn’t yet spoken for, consider contributing. BE credits and some free links are a small reward that could be yours!
Comment Friday- March 23
[Update] I should of put this in the original post, but here it is now. Mitch at HarpzOn is hosting his own comment competition, but his is souped up with charitable donations. Each comment he receives on his post, will have a 10 dollar donation by him, basically from you. I hope you head on over and leave him a comment, for a few seconds of your time, you can do some real good. Let him know BAYB sent you! {Update}
Haven’t heard about Comment Friday?
Comment friday is a fun and simple idea. Leave us a comment about anything you want. By leaving a comment, you will have your blog visited by me, and you may even get a link out of it. I will select a blog from the comment list to be linked to and have their link on our blogroll, until next friday.
Our Comment Friday’s have been more and more successful, not only am I visiting blogs, but other people are checking you out as well.
Last Friday we had 17 comments and we chose Jason Buckley as our winner.
This week it just might be you.
Our First Blog Carnival
This is Blog about your Blog’s first blog carnival. I have included 20 articles submitted by fellow bloggers. The qualifications were simple, I just asked for your best post. By just asking that, we have received a nice amount of submissions on a variety of topics. I encourage you to visit some of these blogs if you find their titles interesting.
Ed the Editor presents Dow Jones plummets, Chinese laugh posted at The Pisstakers World News, saying, “The Chinese stock market fell 9% in a day and when the US markets realized it, they did as expected and panicked. China watches and smiles as they see the US markets knee jerk and sell off. Why smile when their own market has tanked? Simple, in China they don’t care because it was a short term plan to drum up some business for China!”
Lee presents Around the League 3/1/07 posted at TINO’s Bloghouse, saying, “This is a sample of a daily post I do around the world of football (this one NFL, also cover NCAA and Arena)”
Azmi Mufti presents How DesiNotes Came to be posted at Azmi M..
Feral Pundit presents Art Bell’s Alleged Hate Letter to the Filipino People posted at The Compass Blog, saying, “One of my Most Read Posts”
Denise Olesky presents THOUGHT YOU’D NEVER DO A BUS TOUR? THINK AGAIN posted at Welcome, saying, ““We’re thinking about a bus tour,†said my friend when talking about possible ways to see Italy. “A bus tour?†I said. “Oh no, absolutely not. I’m not doing a bus tour.†Or so I thought …”
Charles Amico presents A U.S. Foreign policy fit for the 21st Century challenges posted at WeThePeople.
Jack Yoest presents Are Business Elites Capitalists? posted at Reasoned Audacity, saying, “Your Business Blogger once partnered with a former McKinsey Consultant, a brilliant mind with a Ph.D. in Math from Columbia. I once wondered aloud why McKinsey, indeed all big business seemed to be confused conservatives.
If you are in business, doing business, creating wealth — you must be a Calvin Coolidge conservative GOP’er. Right?”
Zechary presents What is the difference between love and like? posted at Zechary White, saying, “My blog includes 3 parts, Reading&Thinking is about articles I read, and thing I thought; In Tech means Internet Technology; Wonderful world is interesting things I found”
Jigsaw hc presents Online Word Processor Comparison posted at Rants & Reviews.
Jenny Blackburn presents Why we blog posted at Absolutely Bananas.
Raymond David Salas presents How to Heal Yourself posted at ZenChill.com – Power Tools for Mind, Body, and Soul.
Trish presents the dish: Oh, the Trauma (revisited) posted at the dish.
Darius presents Big Brother is Watching You. Yes, YOU. posted at 2-Privacy.com.
Scott Lee presents Emotional Intelligence – Get It Out! posted at Dirty Mechanism.
Michelle Mitchell presents A Custom Search Engine for Momblogs posted at scribbit
Carl Madsen presents Business Cards – A simple and Effective way of Promoting AGLOCO in the Offline World posted at Dominate AGLOCO.
Mr. Besilly presents Free Advice: But Who’s Asking? posted at Mr. Besilly – One Man’s highway, saying, “If someone is not asking for my advice it usually means they don’t want to hear it. Sounds obvious right? I am still amazed at how many times I have to wrestle this problem to the ground.”
Kilroy_60 presents An Update On The Megaposting Experiment posted at Fear And Loathing – The Gonzo Papers.
Praveen presents Viewpoint posted at Tao of Simplicity.
David Parker presents Helen Keller and “subversive verses” posted at another history blog.
That concludes this edition. Stay tuned for our next carnival which could be hosted next month. This is a trial carnival, so if it’s successful we can definitely host this again.
Thank you for reading!
Technorati tags: blog carnival, blog about your blog, bloggers, best post
Hey!? My blog is a Transformer!
Yes I’m already sure that your blog is more than meets the eye but what do you do when your blog actually transforms?
This is what I faced a couple of months ago when I realized that the business blog that I started that was supposed to be purely a discussion and showcase to help potential clients learn a little about me and how I work had become my private/personal blog.
In fact I posted about it the day I realized what had happened. My original goal was to promote myself after I had quit my day job, to hold a kind of online interview for a web designer who was rededicating himself to his craft.
A funny thing then happened on the way to the blogosphere, more and more of the posts I focused on my other passions, thoughts and opinions until the blog shifted completely shifted its focus to me as a person not as a consultant.
Ironically enough though that whilst the blog was changing form it was also transforming my aspirations and direction professionally. I went from being a jack of all trades web designer to a focused new media consultant/professional blogger. Something I’m very grateful it did! Despite it being in many regards a more difficult path.
So I allowed the site to change after I discovered the fact but I could have very easily gone back to it’s original purpose simply because I identified that it had happened. I would have done it gradually too over a month or so, less personal stories more web related ones. This site Blog About Your Blog has been a happy outlet for those posts though! As I mentioned I’m happy for the change, I like writing it and there are one or two people who seem to enjoy reading it from time to time!
The only other issue I might point out to you if you do decide to put your wayward blog back on the rails is that some of your established readers may not follow – you’ll probably replace them with new readers but don’t be offended!!!
Lee
What To Do With My Adsense Cheque?
On Saturday, I recieved my first ever google adsense cheque for the princely sum of £59.18 (curse the strong pound and the weak dollar!). I recently posted on my blog a very important question: what the bloody hell should I do with it? I feel I should do something something more constructive than spending it on blackjack and hookers. I feel I should invest it. So, with that in mind, I’m throwing the question open to you all, who are probably no better at financial advising than yours truly:
What should I do with £59.18 from Google Adsense?
Comment on it either here or there.
Finally, I’m also running a competition on my blog to create a website visualisation gallery. Basically, draw a picture either on a PC or freehand of a website, and email me with a copy of the image, and your site, the image, and the site will be included in the gallery. You have 24 hours! See the example above for Digg.com
Hi My Business Name Goes Here and This is My Blog
Many applaud the blog platform for its casual nature and relaxed approach to getting your thoughts and opinions out into the world.
But casual or relaxed doesn’t have to mean unprofessional or sloppy and if you are going to use corporate blogging for your business you won’t want it to be either! Unless of course if that is impression you want people to have of your business!
The first question as a business that you need to ask yourself before you put the virtual pen to paper is what do I want to achieve with my blog? Do you want to promote your products only or do you want people to feel like they’re part of your business family? Maybe it’s something completely different! Perhaps you will discuss your entire industry as a whole, focus inwardly on your business or a combination of the two?
Now once you’ve worked out why you’re blogging it is a lot easier to set out what you are going to say with your first post. I believe in a corporate blog your first post carries a lot more weight than that of a personal one. There’s an expectation of professionalism immediately.
Every business is different of course and your business may be one that benefits from an informal discussion blog rather than an exercise in pure public relations. With the very first post this is your chance to establish that feel. Let the readers know what type of blog they’ve encountered. Don’t tell the reader though what they’ll be feeling let the writing itself shape that relationship.
As part of your planning stages you should establish the tone of your corporate blog. But because of the very nature of the blogosphere you need to be flexible enough to allow the blog to grow and adapt. Even the goals that we’ve already discussed may need to bend slightly when you discover that the readers are helping you shape new ones! Say for example your goal was to promote your products by releasing reviews of them, your readers may start posting their own reviews that prove more popular. Embrace this! Of course you are always going to be open to negative comments and that’s a topic for another day!
Lee
Quit Your Day Job
Crypt Hunter
Pop Culture Heroines
Next up: “Hey!? My blog is a transformer!“
Blog Review Competition
We are still only at two reviews, and we are aiming for 10. As mentioned our authors have been promoting the contest and we aren’t getting the response I’ve hoped for.
Our two reviews can be found at:
We’ve had a few interested, just not many writing reviews. Remember we are offering 10$ for first, and 5$ a peice for second and third. This is great for blogs who don’t qualify for ‘sponsored posts’ or just want to write about us anyway. After the reviews have been voted on, I will pay out through my paypal. Please write the review at least 100 words long, and not grouped together with other reviews.
All reviews will receive a linkback!
We have received two reviews that didn’t qualify for our competition from
Free Reviews
and
World Blog Collection
Free Reviews really liked our blog and gave us a great review, and World Blog Collection mentioned us, but just tossed us into the review given about A Links Blog. I have become a contributor at Links Blog, and if you haven’t had your site listed go check it out. I hope to make more posts about our authors and blogs there.