Have you heard of Carnival Blogging?
The basic idea, as I understand it, is that (weekly/monthly/quarterly), various writings on topics are submitted or gathered in one place.Ìý .Ìý Every week, a new host is chosen, and they are the ones who write up the summary of those posts, with the massive link-fest that leads to other writings on the topic.
What I'm thinking is inviting various ex-pat blogs, once a week, to write on the same theme or topic.Ìý It doesn't have to be long - just a few sentences if that's what you want that week, or a long post if that's what catches your fancy.Ìý And, of course, if the topic doesn't interest you that week, you skip it.
New topics would be posted by the host on Thurday, on the host blog, which is cunning held here: .Ìý After you've written on the topic, you would drop an email to the host for that week with the URL and the trackback (if applicable).Ìý On Monday, the host would post (both in their blog and in the 'main' blog) a collection of the links for everyone to peruse.Ìý Each participant would either copy the post and put it in your blog, or just link to that post.Ìý Hopefully, we'll all drive readers towards the post, and readers will follow that to each other's blogs.
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My ultimate hope would be to get as many ½ûÂþÌìÌÃgers involved as possible.Ìý I think, because of our varied readership, we'll end up with more on board once we have a few posts under our belt.Ìý If we pimp out the whole idea at the end of each of our posts, and in the starting and finishing posts, we should have more people involved.Ìý (By each of our posts, I mean the ones specifically about the ½ûÂþÌìÌà Carnival.)
I don't know about you guys, but I started reading ex-pat blogs before I left (before I was even sure I wanted to leave!) in order to get a feel for what it was like living in a foreign country.Ìý I know that other people do that as well... in fact, I once got an email from a woman who told me I was her inspiration for moving to China (*blink!*), and I know I went overseas because I was influenced a lot by my friend Mark's experiences in Japan.Ìý I think having several blog posts from different countries and perspectives, from different expat experiences, will interest a lot of people who read our individual blogs because of that.Ìý
A brief list of possible topics includes "What did you do before you left (and how would you do it differently)?", "Write about your favorite food in your adopted country", "How do you keep in touch with home - or do you?", "What is home to you now?", "Where else would you want to live?"Ìý I'd think we can all come up with more and more interesting than that.Ìý *grin*
Thoughts?Ìý Questions?Ìý Concerns?
There is already a topic for this week, although I won't be making it "official" till Thursday: Why did you decide to move and would you do it again?Ìý It was proposed by
Hope to hear from you soon!
Anna