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| A blog about Club Blogsboro, Blogsboro.com and efforts to discover creative people from around the world. |
| Join The Yellow Dog Fan Club | | Show your support for Yellow Dog's 2008 campaign to be the next President of the United States by joining the Yellow Dog Fan Club and by reading the Yellow Dog blog at YellowDog08.com. | | Posted: 1/13/2008 at 22:25 | Read 28 times | 0 comments | Leave Comment |
 | Christmas, New Years and New Things | Just thought I'd take a minute to tell you about the BloggingPoet.com 33 Days of Christmas Celebration that just wrapped up. It's 33 days of Christmas poems, stories, music, news and holidaze fun and just happens to be the most popular on the web according to Google.
Beginning January 1st. the Idle Handy Awards return. Nominations are still going on so get them in ASAP. Voting will end on Jan 31st.
Blogsboro.com added a 4th writer this week. We're verry happy to announce that Verona of VeronaBotsford.com is now a part of our team. If you happen to be local to Greensboro, North Carolina we do have another opening to fill.
We're still working on plans for February and March but in April our readers will crown the 4th Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere so make sure you stay informed by signing up for the Blogsboro, Idle Hands, Ringing of the Bards Newsletter at the bottom of every page at Blogsboro.com and the Blogsboro Network.
And finally, if you would like to get your art, music, poetry, stories or other creative ideas in front of 60,000 readers then be sure to check out our Submissions page.
| | Posted: 12/25/2007 at 10:41 | Read 29 times | 0 comments | Leave Comment |
| When Words Are Taken At Face Value | The Great Gravy BoatRoman sailed the gravy seas in his magic gravy boat. No matter how the storm winds tossed his boat would stay afloat. Continue reading | | Posted: 11/26/2007 at 09:31 | Read 41 times | 0 comments | Leave Comment |
| Help Blogsboro Help Others | The goal of Club Blogsboro is to gather information and links to creative people so that we can highlight these people at Blogsboro.com. You see, Blogsboro isn't about us, it's about shining a spotlight on The Long Tail of Creativity.
For those who may not know The Long Tail represents all those talented people who simply have yet to gain their share of the limelight. Be they artists, musicians, poets, novelists or any other creative persons they simply need more exposure and at Blogsboro.com we give exposure away free of charge.
If you would like to help the struggling artists of the world then why not consider installing the Blogsboro Headlines Widget to your blog, website, Google homepage, Myspace or other social networking site.
And could somebody please tell me how to install the Blogsboro Widget to my Yuwie pages?
By the way, speaking of The Long Tail, my newest book, Reindeer Tales is the perfect gift for kids from 8 to 88.
| | Posted: 11/25/2007 at 08:23 | Read 40 times | 0 comments | Leave Comment |
| Holiday Submissions Wanted | Post it to anywhere you like and send us your link and if it's related to Christmas or any other December holiday we just might post it to the BloggingPoet.com 33 Days of Christmas or one of the other Blogsboro.com websites.
And don't forget to get into creative shape at Club Blogsboro.
| | Posted: 11/22/2007 at 08:28 | Read 43 times | 0 comments | Leave Comment |
| What In Tarnation Am I Doing Here? | For starters, I have issues with most social networking sites. The vast majority of social networking sites are what I call Web 2.0 Internet Sharecropping Straw bosses who prey on their members for free content while giving nothing of real value in return. Fact is: until now I've never heard of a social networking site that shared their Billion dollar profits with those who actually paid their bills. It's time for Web 3.0 to begin.
That said, money isn't the only reason I'm here even if money is the reason I chose Yuwie over say Facebook or one of those other robber barons.
You see, I first came online in 2000 with the goal of promoting my first book, Carrot On A Stick but it didn't take long before trying to promote my books began to feel somewhat dirty. I finally decided that even if my books remain a financial flop for the rest of my life I would do what I could to promote the works of the many great unknowns.
Oh sure, I still promote my books from time to time but not anything like I used to do.
To do this I built several e-zines and blogs only to see all of them fail. But like the fool I am I keep trying. Oh sure, I still write my personal blog at BloggingPoet.com and my children's site, LaureatesKids.com but neither of those are any longer my first love.
So what is my first love?
That would now be Blogsboro.com where myself and after the Thanksgiving holiday, my partners, Tina and Budd, hope to highlight as many artists, musicians, poets, novelists, photographers, indy filmmakers and other creative types as we possibly can. Our dream is for Blogsboro.com to become so successful that those artists we link to will become successful as well-- kinda like the SlashDot of the arts. No, we'll not do it with just 3 writers but we've not yet enough money to add more. You see, I have no intention of becoming known as yet another Internet sharecropping straw boss. If we fail we fail but it won't be at the expense of our "members."
And finally, in coming full-circle that brings us to Club Blogsboro, an effort to make our jobs easier. We're hoping that lots of creative people will leave their links at Club Blogsboro so that we can more easily find them. And if they happen to be a little shy then perhaps a friend will leave a link for them. Yeah, we'd like to make a little money from our time with Yuwie but if Club Blogsboro can help us accomplish our goals of helping other creative people then that will be good enough.
| | Posted: 11/21/2007 at 20:03 | Read 36 times | 0 comments | Leave Comment |
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