I am hosting the next leg of the Canadian Tour of Personal Finance Blogs and invite submissions from my fellow bloggers. The Tour will be posted on the blog on Tuesday, May 22nd at 7:00 AM EDT. I am postponing the tour from the traditional Monday because I figure people will be off enjoying Victoria Day all across our great nation. Here is a short list of ground rules:
- To include you post in the Tour, please submit (using the contact form) your post no later than noon on Monday, May 21st.
- Submit one post that was recently published on your blog in the following format: Title, URL and a short description. I’ll try and read every submission but if there are a ton of submissions, I can’t make any guarantees. I hope you’ll understand because the last carnival I hosted ended up receiving more than 55 entries!
- Strictly one submission per blog.
- Submissions will be included in the order they are received.
- I’ve been suggesting to Tour organizer Monty Loree that we should consider a cap on the number of entries to prevent the tour from degenerating into a link fest but for the next edition, I’ll publish all submitted entries.
- Thank you for participating!
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12 responses so far ↓
1 FinancialJungle // May 15, 2007 at 2:44 am
Am I correct to assume that I can publish the post right now, and submit the form? Just want to double-check that I don’t have to wait till May 22nd to publish my post. The rule seems a little different from when Money Diva hosted the tour last.
2 Canadian Capitalist // May 15, 2007 at 7:18 am
FJ: Yes, you can publish your post and then submit the form. Actually, that’s generally how these “carnivals” are organized. I noticed that MD and CMA had slightly different rules. Personally, I like to read all the posts that are submitted and it is easier if it is already published.
3 MillionDollarJourney.com // May 15, 2007 at 7:36 am
So archived posts are accepted?
4 Canadian Capitalist // May 15, 2007 at 8:18 am
MDJ: I’ll leave it to your discretion but I’d like a “recent post”. Say one that was published within the last 2 weeks.
5 GIV // May 15, 2007 at 10:39 am
I’ve been suggesting to Tour organizer Monty Loree that we should consider a cap on the number of entries
Hear, hear. I’m all for populism, but the Carnival of Investing, for one, was better when there was some sort of filter applied to it.
I’m sure it’ll be great in your capable hands.
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7 Riscario // May 15, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Thanks for agreeing to host, CC.
I liked the way MD put posts into categories and had a short summary. While summaries may not be practical based on the volume of submissions, categories would be useful indeed. You could ask the writer to supply the category tag, which you could then change if necessary.
I’m reluctant to make too many suggestions for fear that I’ll get volunteered to host a tour
8 FinancialJungle.com // May 15, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Yeah, Riscario. Money Diva’s summaries blew me off my chair. She could’ve submitted the summaries as an article to the tour. Then she can summarize her summaries. LOL!
I did volunteer to host a tour, but now I’m thinking she set the bar too high.
9 The Money Diva // May 15, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Risc, FJ - Thanks for the kudos. You guys are making me blush!
I’ll definitely be submitting a “real” article this time…
CC - glad to see that you are moving this thing into it’s next stage. I have to admit that I actually knew nothing about carnivals so I made it up as I went along!
I submitted an article to the Carnival of Personal Finance this week and there were 100 articles in the carnival! Naturally, almost nobody came to read mine, since it was near the end. So I agree with a cap too.
MD:)
10 Monty Loree // May 16, 2007 at 10:20 am
GIV,
The number of entries has come up a few times.
It’s a balancing act between how many blogs want to participate, and how many blogs the host wants to review.
If the host is supposed to read every blog and give an intelligent comment on each post, 10 is a good number.
If, as CC has mentioned, you just want the host to copy and paste something from each blog as the review, and not give a personal comment… 25 is ok for entries.
I was concerned about the participants getting burned out having to write something every two weeks.
The whole idea of is to generate some community for Canadian personal finance bloggers and I believe that’s what we’re doing.
I want to thank CC for hosting. Whereas he has participated in many of these “Tours” with U.S. bloggers… it will be nice to have him lead the way with Canadians!
11 Monty Loree // May 16, 2007 at 10:22 am
Riscario,
Yes.. Money Diva did a great job…
After about 10 of these Tours, I’m certain that we’ll have some great examples from all of the different hosts.
Questions? Comments? about the Tour..
Tour’s email address is: tour (dot) canadian (at) gmail.com
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