May All Your Dreams Come True
Our pal Nancy Schwartz over at the Getting Attention blog is hosting the first Nonprofit Blog Carnival of 2012 and we hope you’ll participate in it.
In case you’re wondering what a ‘blog carnival’ you can find out more here in Joanne Fritz’ description over at About.com. In short, it’s a sort of online anthology of blogs in a particular niche.
Here’s Nancy’s call to action for 2012’s first Carnival:
“Pick any dream you have — for your cause, organization or the nonprofit sector — and write about it, and how you plan to make it real. Your dream may be about seeing critical progress on the issue closest to your heart, getting the funding it takes for your organization to contribute to its full potential, changing public perception of the issue you work on, or even your dream for the future of your nonprofit or the nonprofit sector.
“Want to submit a dream? Write a blog post or choose a recent post that fits the theme. Email your post to nonprofitcarnival@gmail.com (include the permalink of your post, your name and blog name), or use this submission form.
Submissions are due by the end of the day on Friday, January 27 and Nancy will publish the post on Tuesday, January 31.
For Agitator readers who blog, note that by submitting your post to the blog carnival, you’ll drive new traffic to your blog and help raise its online profile.
We can’t wait to read about your dreams for this year! Make sure to submit your posts by day’s end Friday, January 27. Email your post to nonprofitcarnival@gmail.com (include the permalink of your post, your name and blog name) or use the submission form.
Roger and Tom
P.S. Make sure to take a look at the trends and predictions for 2012 featured in the December Nonprofit Blog Carnival, compiled by Joanne Fritz, Nonprofit Guru over at About.com.
P.P.S. Keep those responses to our 2012 Agitator reader survey coming in. Takes only five minutes. The better we know you, the more relevant we can make our content.
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Thanks so much for helping to promote the nonprofit blog carnival, Roger! That “Dreams” post will be out this Tues (1/31)….A lot of submissions thanks to friends like you.