Expat Experience Blog Carnival!
A blog carnival is like an online magazine with a collection of the best (usually recent) blog posts on a particular topic. For examples you can just Google “blog carnival” and any given keyword of what you’re interested in, such as “travel” and you’ll find quite a few of these. It’s a great way to get your blog out there and it’s also nice to discover other bloggers in your niche, and network with them. Besides that, it builds traffic and pagerank, because of linkbacks (if that’s what you’re interested in).
I haven’t been able to find any expat blog carnivals, so I decided to set one up myself. Therefore, I’m calling for all expat bloggers to submit their materials for the first edition of the Expat Experience blog carnival!
How to participate? Simple. Just go to the Expat Experience submission page, select one of your most fascinating, well-read, recent posts and submit it for the next issue! Piece of cake.
When the next issue is posted, I’ll link every article back to the original blog posts (and main blog page), but I also expect people to show off their submission in the blog carnival and link back to the carnival. If you think the quality of the carnival is sub par, then don’t link it. It’s all up to you, but it would be nice to create a buzzing community. 
Want to earn 300ECs (or a 2 week 125×125 banner on my site) and public recognition in the next issue of the blog carnival? Design us a cool banner that communicates the global expat experience with a width of 475 pixels! Whoever’s design is picked gets the prize!
So what are you waiting for! Submit your articles and leave your link below to show your participation!
Visit Expat Experience on BlogCarnival.com.
Tags: blog carnival, blogging, community, expat, Expat Experience, expatriate, expatriates, expats, networking, travel, writing
September 21st, 2008 at 7:42 am
oooo, I’m on this! but send me a pic or something that you would like to be featured. I can do just about anything with just about anything…
September 21st, 2008 at 9:21 am
Ah I’m not an expat, so I can’t join.
But it’s a miracle for me to discover your blog. I love Istanbul, and have been dreaming of going there, so I’m addin’ yours to my blog roll!
BTW, I’m a vegetarian too.
kyhs last blog post: “Yada yada bla bla bla…“
September 22nd, 2008 at 12:47 pm
I can’t seem to use the link to send in the post of choice for the carnival, so I’ll put it here…
http://orenetaaground.blogspot.com/2008/09/on-hot-knifing-prickly-pears.html
What a great idea!
orenetas last blog post: “Parenting takes you all sorts of places.“
September 22nd, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Hmmm, the comment doesn’t seem to have come through, forgive me if I am double posting here. I cannot get onto the submissions page, seems I am forbidden by some e-cop out there…so I will put the link to my submission here, m’kay?
http://orenetaaground.blogspot.com/2008/09/on-hot-knifing-prickly-pears.html
This is a great idea, thanks for pulling it together.
orenetas last blog post: “Parenting takes you all sorts of places.“
September 22nd, 2008 at 7:15 pm
I’ve attempted to leave my link above but not sure it took?
http://paddyinba.blogspot.com/
Quickroutes last blog post: “SHIT !!!!“
September 22nd, 2008 at 7:40 pm
I’m not expatriate, but I think it’s a great idea. Best of luck to y’all!
LuAnns last blog post: “Cool Book for Kids (of All Ages)“
September 22nd, 2008 at 8:55 pm
@lala: Thanks
@kyh: thanks for the add!! You know that this Friday is International Hug a Vegetarian Day!?
@oreneta: as I emailed, thanks for your submission. No worries, if the applet doesn’t work for you, just submit it like this
And finally @LuAnn: thank you very much
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Thank you for you fantastic comment. This is the last I drop from me and last comment for you. I will not spam you any more.
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Thanks for the confirmation. Looking forward to seeing your Twitter updates.
October 4th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
I had looked for an expat carnival before and hadn’t found one. Glad you’re starting it up!
October 12th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Thank you for putting together this project. I’ve been looking for something like this in the past, which seems to be what a lot of people are saying here. What a great thing!