I have some exciting news…mostly for myself, but I must share.
First things first, I picked two winners for last week’s Converse giveaway, T from You Asked For It and Gina from Namaste By Day, you each won ONE pair of Converse for kids. Congratulations!!
Secondly, take a look at the community tab I installed on my page. God I’m a fan of a nice looking tab. It’s a direct link to my BlogFrog community where you can read all the juicy forum discussions without leaving my blog. It’s my own community in my blog. And I love it.
If you’re unfamiliar with how BlogFrog works, allow me to summarize:
BlogFrog acts as a way to communicate with and meet other bloggers and it promotes the heck out of your blog every time you participate in a discussion. Every time you ask or answer a question your face and a link to both your blog and your twitter account is displayed on BlogFrog and on the widgets found on the community leaders blog.
So if you posted a question in my community right now, your face and a link to your blog would show up on that widget to the right. It’s a great way to accrue traffic. As a member of BlogFrog you can create your own community and use it to connect with your readers, you can simply hop from discussion to discussion and not worry about maintaining your own community, or you can do both. Or neither really. It’s your life.
I’M NOT TELLING YOU WHAT TO DO.
And lastly I’m excited because I’m officially a partner with the SITS girls.
You’ve heard me talk about SITS before. The Secret Is In The Sauce is a site dedicated to connecting women in blogland, spreading comment love, and offering advice to bloggers of all kind.
Tiffany and Heather are the brains behind SITS and it’s affiliated conferences. I was pleased to find that I actually like them as much in person as I do in my computer. They’re lovely, normal, real women.
This year SITS has undergone a face lift. Same great concept, spanking new design, and some fresh blood. And by “fresh blood” I mean Francesca from Mayhem & Moxie and I have joined the ranks and will be working hard to make SITS even more spectacular.
This means I’ll be teaming up with Heather on the daily featured bloggers, working with Fran on some occasional blog tip posts, and I’ll be helping Tiffany out at some of the Bloggy Boot Camp conferences. I am now officially slated to attend the Philly conference in September and I can’t wait to dazzle the masses at future conferences as well.
What does all this mean for you? Nothing. I might share what’s happening over there from time to time, but everything here will stay exactly as it is. With the addition of that hot new tab.
God I’m a fan of a nice looking tab!
Check it out!