Exciting news for Flannel Friday! Introducing
the Flannel Friday website!
As you know, Anne at So Tomorrow
has been an amazing manager and archiver of Flannel Friday
information for the past year. Anne and her husband are expecting
their first baby in June (congratulations Anne!) so we wanted to give
her a break from Flannel Friday during her maternity leave. So this
spring, Anne and Mel from Mel's Desk and a small group of old and new
Flannel Friday-ers worked to create a new web home for Flannel
Friday.
Here's the link! http://flannelfridaystorytime. blogspot.com
The new site will be the
home of the Round Up Schedule, the archives, FAQs about Flannel
Friday, information about how to get involved with Flannel Friday,
and links to help new members get started with social networking and
blogging. There will also be a link to the week's Round Up, but
the Round Up will continue to be hosted on individual blogs.
We'll just point to each Round Up from the site.
Refining the
Round Up Procedure
The Flannel Friday community has grown
continuously over the year, with new bloggers, new Round Up Hosts,
and new members every week on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter. We
are building an amazing community and are grateful to each and every
one of you for your participation and enthusiasm. As the group has
grown, you've probably noticed that so have the Round Ups! We've seen
an inevitable increase in missed links and general confusion as the
Round Ups are compiled. We thought that the launch of the new site
was a great opportunity to take a page from other round ups in the
blogosphere and establish one single method for building the Round Up
each week.
This information will be in the FAQs on the new
site, but here's our new strategy in a nutshell:
- Every week the Round Up Host will publish a "placeholder" post for the Round Up on the host blog at 10pm EST on Thursday.
- Each blogger who wants to participate in the Round Up will make a comment to the Round Up post with the link back to their Flannel Friday post by 10pm EST on Friday.
- This will be the only place to post links for the Round Up! This way the Host won't have to worry about checking Facebook or Twitter as well.
- If a blogger can't make the 10pm EST deadline on Friday, we'll ask that the post be held for the next week's Round Up.
- The Round Up Host will gather links from the Round Up post comments throughout the day, and publish the Round Up at the end of the day.
We hope this will make the Round Ups
easier to create and easier to contribute to! We'll look forward to
your feedback over the next few weeks. Sharon / @ReadingChick at Rain
Makes Applesauce has the Round Up this week, 5/11, so she's going to try
out the new procedure with us and see how it goes!
If you have
questions or comments, don't hesitate to share them via the new
Flannel Friday email: flannelboardfriday [at] gmail.com.
Thanks for all you do to to make Flannel Friday more than a
blog event--but a great community too. Here's to the next great year
of Flannel Friday!
Thank you! I'm hosting for the first time in June, and I feel much more relaxed about it now.
ReplyDeleteThank YOU Shawn! We did this so that it wouldn't be so overwhelming. Glad you like it!
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