“Blog Carnival” Defined
Just as the title suggests, the Carnival of Family Life features family-related articles on a weekly basis.
A Blog Carnival is a particular kind of blog community. Blog Carnivals typically consist of a collection of links pointing to blog articles on a particular topic or theme. A Blog Carnival is like a magazine: It has a title, a topic or theme, editors (weekly hosts), contributors, and an audience. Each edition is itself a blog article that consists of the links to all the contributions submitted, often accompanied by commentary, remarks and/or opinion offered by the editor (host).
Contributing articles to Carnivals devoted to specific topics or themes that interest you is a great way to learn more about that topic, network with other bloggers, and become part of an online community, in addition to building your readership and augmenting traffic to your own site.
Goals of the Carnival of Family Life
The goal of the Carnival of Family Life is to provide readers an opportunity to sit down in front of their computers, relax, enjoy a cup of coffee, and be inspired, amused, motivated or experience a couple of “A ha!” or “Me, too!” moments while reading and considering the various entries.
Guidelines
- Nonfiction, fiction or “how to” articles, poems, videos, photos . . . any type of entry is acceptable so long as it relates to the theme, i.e., “family.” Of course, “family” has many meanings and there are different types of families. The topic can revolve around any aspect of family life, including but not limited to parenting experiences and tips/guidance, relationships, education, finances, pets, the composition and/or formation of family units, challenges facing familial units today, etc.
- First-time contributors and hosts are always welcome!
- You can submit your post any time throughout the week by clicking on this link. The deadline is every Saturday at 7:00 p.m. Pacific time, with the weekly edition posted each Monday morning by the week’s host.
- Only one post/article from a specific blog will be accepted each week. If you have more than one blog, you may submit one entry per week from each site.
- Articles will only be included once. Therefore, articles which have been featured in past editions will not be featured again, so the same article(s) should not be submitted on multiple occasions.
- The post/article you submit does not have to have been initially published within a specific time frame. It can be a new article, published for the first time in conjunction with the Carnival, or an older piece that you would like to spotlight at a particular time.
- No post/article containing nudity, profanity, vulgar language or images, or hate speech will be accepted. No exceptions will be made so please do not ask.1
- Posts which are merely advertisements for products, even if those products are family-friendly, will not be accepted. This includes, but is not limited to Pay Per Post or similar entries.
- Each post submitted must stand alone rather than simply point to a different article, thereby requiring readers to click more than once in order to access the full article.
- Comments must be enabled! Articles published on sites that either do not accept comments or require the reader to register in order to comment will not be accepted.
Prior Editions of the Carnival
If you would like to review previous editions of the Carnival to peruse examples of the types of articles that are featured and/or some of the ways that hosts have organized and presented the weekly submissions, review any of the editions listed in the Archive here.
If you would like to host the Carnival at your site, send an e-mail, specifying the week(s) you would like to host, to familylifecarnival at comcast dot net.
Hosting Schedule
May 19, 2008: ice cream is not for breakfast
May 26, 2008: Colloquium
June 2, 2008: Live from Waterloo
June 9, 2008: The So-Called Me
June 16, 2008:
June 23, 2008:
June 30, 2008: Mixed Metaphor.net
July 7, 2008:
July 14, 2008:
July 21, 2008:
July 28, 2008:
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- I agree with David Culpepper of Pure Blogging who, in establishing guidelines for guest bloggers, classifies the use of profanity as “unacceptable content,” noting “You can make your point without the use of profanity.”
