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Summer of Link Love

Tracee — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:00:57 +0000

You now what I hate?

I hate that bloggers spend hours of time doing research and writing great posts and after a day or a week it drifts off into the ether.

Think of all that great content out there just . . . not being read.

It’s a shame.

I was chatting on Facebook with my friend Amy Jussel, of Shaping Youth, who has tons of vital content on her site. She said she was thinking about taking the summer off.

I thought, Wait, what if bloggers didn’t waste all our fantastic content? What if we spend the summer copy and pasting our bloggy friends’ content on our blogs?

The benefits include these:

We expose our readers to our own favorite blogs, passions, interests and friends.
Our readers get new material all summer long.
We new eyes for our blogs by being featured on other blogs. (new eyes = new fans)
We get links that up our rankings.
Google still likes us for frequent posting.
We get to spend our summers with our kids and friends or working on other projects.
We get to read more blogs
We get to rejuice – writers need to rejuice.

The key is simple and easy for everyone. I’m talking about a summer of copy and pasting people.

If you want a post to be featured on The Girl Revolution send me the html code so I can paste it. As long as it’s appropriate and doesn’t violate girls or The Girl Revolution in any way, I’ll publish it.

If I stop by your blog and like a story you’ve written, I’ll email you or leave a comment telling you that I’m planning to copy, paste and run your story on The Girl Revolution. If that’s not acceptable to you – let me know and I won’t do it. If it is, feel free to stop by and Twitter, Facebook and Social Network your own story on my blog. Beautiful symbiosis isn’t it?

If you want to participate in Summer of Link Love 2009 - copy and paste this post in your own blog inviting your own bloggy friends to swap content. Grab the Summer of Link Love 2009 button, html code is right here – just copy and paste and pop it up on your own sidebar inviting friends to publish your content on their sites.

Friends Don’t Let Friends Waste Great Content.

Call For Submissions

Tracee — Sat, 09 May 2009 13:00:49 +0000

Hello Readers,

This is a request for submissions to be posted on The Girl Revolution.

Last year on vacation I wrote my blogs. In large part because I agreed to drive a Chevy Tahoo across the country and blog it. This year, we’re off to my sister’s wedding in Utah and I’m going to write nothing. I haven’t done that for more than a weekend in almost three years. I need a vacation.

I’m looking for book reviews, subjects you’re passionate about, essays, product reviews, etc.

I would prefer stories to be under 1,000 words. I’d also like to print a photo with the story – a photo of the author or the author’s daughter or something that goes with the piece.

I’m open to all subjects as long as it pertains to The Girl Revolution in some way. I’d be interested in stories about sons too, if they are connected with perceptions of girls or treatment of girls or relationships to girls.

If you have a blog I will link back. I don’t mind if the story has already been published and you just want to expose a new audience to it. Stories will run May 18 – June 1.

Deadline Monday, May 11, 2009.

Please email me the story – with links – to traceesioux@gmail.com.

PunditMom Radio Show

Tracee — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:00:43 +0000

Click here to listen to my half-hour interview with PunditMom, Joanne Bamberger.

We spoke about body image, princess culture, creating media and health.

The Girl Revolution on BlogTalk Radio.

Scholastic Features The Girl Revolution! (With Your Help)

Tracee — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:00:32 +0000

Scholastic’s Parent and Child Magazine is hoping to feature THE very best Mommy Bloggers out there.

The Girl Revolution is honored to have been nominated. Please take 2 seconds right now to visit the site and enter your email address and this website address: www.thegirlrevolution.com.

It would be such a prestigious and exciting thing for The Girl Revolution to win. Just think how many other parents would find out about and join The Girl Revolution - thus, changing the world for all our daughters!

Thank you all for your support! Visit Scholastic Parent and Child Mommy Blogger Contest.

You can also win a Fit Girl Shirt at Blog Fabulous.