Comments on: Canadian Tour: Call For Submissions

By: This and That

This and That — Fri, 18 May 2007 00:35:51 +0000

[...] you are a Blogger, don’t forget to submit one recent post to the upcoming Tour of Canadian Personal Finance Blogs. I have received only five entries so far [...]

By: Monty Loree

Monty Loree — Wed, 16 May 2007 14:22:59 +0000

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

By: Monty Loree

Monty Loree — Wed, 16 May 2007 14:20:18 +0000

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!

By: The Money Diva

The Money Diva — Wed, 16 May 2007 03:26:46 +0000

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:)

By: FinancialJungle.com

FinancialJungle.com — Wed, 16 May 2007 00:51:11 +0000

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.

By: Riscario

Riscario — Tue, 15 May 2007 23:36:56 +0000

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

By: Financial Jungle - » Who’s Benefiting From Your Asset Allocation?

Financial Jungle - » Who’s Benefiting From Your Asset Allocation? — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:41:43 +0000

[...] Capitalist is graciously hosting the third Canadian Tour of Personal Finance Blogs. There is no way I am passing up this opportunity to be mentioned in his blog. This will be my [...]

By: GIV

GIV — Tue, 15 May 2007 14:39:39 +0000

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.

By: Canadian Capitalist

Canadian Capitalist — Tue, 15 May 2007 12:18:11 +0000

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.

By: MillionDollarJourney.com

MillionDollarJourney.com — Tue, 15 May 2007 11:36:07 +0000

So archived posts are accepted?