New at Blog Carnival

My Favorite Carnivals

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:09:00 -0500

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 Reminder E-Mail

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 18:51:31 -0500

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.

Improvements to Edition Update forms

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 18:44:00 -0500

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.

Improved Sidebar Widget

Sat, 17 Dec 2005 19:33:30 -0500

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!

Post Your Blog Carnival Logos

Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:05:14 -0500

Many carnivals have colorful logos, badges, and buttons. We have added a new field to the carnival description page where you can enter the URL of your logo image. It will be displayed right at the top of your carnival index page. What does it look like? There are many examples, but one of my favorite logos was created by the Carnival of the New Jersey Bloggers.

2000 Editions at Blog Carnival

Wed, 07 Dec 2005 20:36:19 -0500

Blog Carnival received its two thousandth carnival edition link today. Every one of them is full of linky goodness.

Announcing the Blog Carnival Sidebar!

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:00:43 -0500

We have created a box you can put on your webpage that links your readers to carnivals that have just been posted. You can see an example of it on the left. The box is updated throughout the day as carnival organizers record their carnivals on our website.

There's not room for every new carnival posting, but we aim to provide an interesting selection (of course, the full list is available at http://blogcarnival.com).

You need to add a bit of HTML to your web page (or web page template) to incorporate it onto your site. For instructions, see our FAQ.

Improved form entry for dates

Sun, 27 Nov 2005 22:21:43 -0500

New for carnival index maintainers - A popup calendar has been added to the edition editing pages, so entering scheduled dates and submission deadlines for upcoming carnival editions should be less error-prone. (We realize that there are other places where dates and times may have to be typed in by hand, but this was the big one).

Submission Receipts

Sun, 27 Nov 2005 21:23:15 -0500

When you submit your blog article to a carnival, you now get a receipt via e-mail.

New Front Page

Fri, 04 Nov 2005 22:19:47 -0500

We have redone our front page to have more carnival posts, and less of everything else.

Example Carnival Edition

Sun, 01 May 2005 14:30:59 -0500

Had this been a real carnival edition, you'd collect your carnival submissions, edit and annotate them, and post the result here.

We'd also appreciate it if you would mention that your carnival has a page at Blog Carnival; we have link-buttons like these you can use (see "Link to BC Archive" at Blog Carnival for the HTML for these buttons):

Example Carnival Call For Submissions

Sun, 01 May 2005 14:17:07 -0500

We've created this post on our blog, so that we could show how blog carnival archives can link to a "Call For Submissions" for an upcoming edition.

Had this been a real carnival, you would typically find here a request for people to submit posts using the Blog Carnival Submission Form, and sometimes specific details about this edition (for example, if it has a special theme or focus).

A bright logo-link to our submission form helps attract submissions. For the HTML that generates a link to your submission page, see "Link to a BC archive" at Blog Carnival.

Submit your article!

You can also add a sentence like this (bold is effective):

Submit your blog article to this edition of “example carnival”! Use our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Example Carnival Homepage

Sun, 01 May 2005 14:07:07 -0500

We've created this post on our blog, so that we could show how your archive links to carnival homepages.

Had this been a real carnival, you would typically find in this post things like a description of the carnival, submission guidelines, why you started the carnival, how often and where you expect it to be published, etc.

Note that you can "inject" your schedule of past posts and future hosts directly from BlogCarnival.com onto your carnival's home page. It is kept up to date dynamically. As you record editions in the Blog Carnival archive, they automatically appear here:

Example Submission

Fri, 01 Apr 2005 20:30:45 -0500

This is a blog entry that we created to serve as an example of a blog carnival submission. Had this been an actual submission, it would have said something fascinating about the theme of the carnival to which it will be submitted.