Let’s start a Carnival of Mommy Bloggers! First carnival will be Tuesday November 4th!

A carnival is basically a blogging event and The Carnival of Mommy Bloggers will take place every two weeks and feature recent posts from the best of the mommy blogger community.

More details are on A Modern Mother

This is how it works: every two weeks a different mommy blogger “hosts” the carnival. The blogger community submits posts. The rules are one post per blogger and it must be something written in the past two weeks.

The host blogger then compiles the carnival entry post from their pick of the top 25 (can be first 25 submitted, or best 25, but we need to cap it or it will get unwieldy). The post links to all the full posts, and all of the submitters in return post that “The Carnival of Mommy Blogger Carnival is up” with a short write-up and link to the Carnival.

This is a great way to create traffic and link love to all sites involved. I’ve seen it work really well for HR blogs.

I volunteer to organize this and will do the first post. I will keep the schedule on A Modern Mother.

The first Carnival of Mommy Bloggers will be Tuesday 4th November on A Modern Mother. Please send entries to me at amodernmother (at) gmail (dot) com to be included!

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by carole harris on November 3, 2008 at 12:07pm

I'm late I'm late, I'm very very late! but I did submit one of my best posts. I hope I can play in your sand box too! Thanks

Carole

Permalink Reply by Bridget Smith on November 3, 2008 at 4:20pm

You'll be hearing from me. I love blog carnivals!

-Bridget

Permalink Reply by A Modern Mother on November 3, 2008 at 11:55pm

The Best of the Mommy Bloggers Carnival is up, check it out!

The next one is November 11, check the schedule if you want to be included.

Permalink Reply by JuneIn2 on November 4, 2008 at 1:37pm

I will understand if it is too late and will chime in the next time, This is a great Idea

Also if you get a lot of participants, you could segment or focus the carnival, like to "lifestyle" or "fitness" "moms mean business" or basically niche them.

Heres my post

Permalink Reply by Hummie on November 6, 2008 at 8:16am

I started a blog carnival once and utilized the widgets at blogcarnival.com -- they make it very easy!

I ended up turning over my carnival to someone else to run..it's still going...I just didn't have time for it any more.

Pick one post....I cannot imagine which one of mine....I've been blogging for too long.

Permalink Reply by Felicia Pratt Ellis on November 11, 2008 at 8:51am

I would love to be a part of this. I am a new blogger so this will give me feed back on my posts, traffic, comments and maybe subscribers. I'm so excited.

Permalink Reply by A Modern Mother on November 11, 2008 at 1:36pm

The next carnival is November 18 at Under the Big Blue Sky. Please email entries to jistvan1 (at) yahoo (dot) com

Permalink Reply by Melissa McCreery on November 12, 2008 at 11:39am