New at Blog Carnival

We would like to welcome a new writer to the team.

We recently hired Jason Miner to do some of our blogging and to reach out to friends of BlogCarnival.com for guest blogging opportunities. We would like to offer his services to any of you that are looking for great content as we try to support the community in even more ways. In addition, Jason will be writing articles on our behalf and submitting them to carnivals as well to add even more quality to some of the carnivals. As you can see, the team at BlogCarnival.com is growing and working on making this an even better place. Welcome to the team Jason!

We are happy to announce that we launched a new look and feel to BlogCarnival.com. In addition, we have gone through our own carnivals and removed tons of spam comments to provide an even better experience for our members.

Changes are coming that we think you will love...

We are in the process of updating our server a bit and making some exciting changes to further support the Blog Carnival community. We are very much looking forward to serving you for years to come and encourage you to invite other bloggers to join us and get in on the fun!

We've added a terrific new feature for all our users. Now you can maintain a list of your favorite carnivals at Blog Carnival. All you need is a Blog Carnival account ... and that's free!

This feature allows you to submit posts conveniently from a single page to your favorite carnivals. You also can find the most recent editions of all your favorite carnivals quickly.

Once you log into your Blog Carnival account, you'll see a link called My Favorites just under the Carnival management tools label. Click on My Favorites and you can create a list of your favorite blog carnivals from the pull down menu.

Most of Blog Carnival's services have been targeted to carnival organizers and carnival hosts. The My Favorites feature is for anyone who wants to track just a few of the hundreds of blog carnivals out there.

Watch for more features soon!

Carnival Organizers: when you list a new edition, you tell us the "submissions deadline" for that edition. We now send an e-mail reminder about 24 hours prior to the submission deadline. It is sent to the carnival maintainer, the edition maintainer (typically these are the same), and the submission address for that edition. It contains handy links for updating the index and adding entries for new editions.

Note: if you don't want to receive these reminders, just log in and update your user profile.

In response to your feedback, we have reorganized the page that carnival organizers use to record both past editions (and where they were posted), and future editions (when/where they will be posted, and where submissions should be sent). We hope you like it. Keep your suggestions coming.

We've received great feedback on the blog carnival sidebar, and we're proudly releasing version 2 today. We think the layout is simpler and cleaner, and it looks decent with a wider variety of blog style sheets. Enjoy!