The Carnival of Circular Communication - Important Changes!
When I started the first round of the Carnival of Circular Communication I was so excited about it that I could hardly wait to get it up and running. Actually I was sure I had found the right formula, the perfect mix of requirements and the ideal structure. Having experienced how it evolved and the feedback received so far have I however arrived at the conclusion that a number of changes are a necessary.
These are the changes that also are reflected in the new Carnival of Circular Communication page:
Each edition is no longer limited to one theme. You can choose from a vast number of themes posted on the Carnival page. Instead of thinking of each edition as a magazine concentrated on one subject the carnival can thus now be seen as a magazine that in each edition contains articles on various subjects revolving around a common theme. Depending on the submissions will there most likely be more focus on one or more particular subjects in each edition, but still be a variety of subjects covered.
As a consequence does each edition no longer allow interpretations of a subject or theme that lies beyond the scope of this blog. If you write about blogging for example should you focus on the communicative aspects thereof and not solely focus on technical or monetary aspects that has nothing to do with communication. When considering what you could write about or what you already have written consider it with communication in mind.
The Carnival will still be published Sunday evening. The deadline is Friday at midnight. However, submitting before a given Friday does not guarantee inclusion in the following Sunday edition. Should there be too few accepted posts the edition will be carried forward and when the number of accepted submissions go beyond the cut off point they will be carried over and appear in the following edition.
You can submit as many articles on the same theme or subject as you want, but limited to one per edition. To ensure that so many blogs and bloggers as possible are featured in each edition is this rule necessary. There should be something for everyone in each edition and that is most likely the case when as many different writers as possible participate. Since you can submit to every edition if you like, do you get chances enough to be featured.
Your submission does not have to be published within the time frame of the carnival. It has to have been published within a month prior to submission though. This opens up for the possibility to submit articles written before you discovered the carnival, but also ensures that the readers aren’t only presented with older stuff that they already know. Furthermore is this a good opportunity to present a recent article that didn’t get the attention it deserves to a different audience.
Since I now also accept previously published articles do your article no longer have to contain a link to the carnival page. Helping spread the word helps everyone though so please do so even if you are not required to. You are thus encouraged to post about the carnival, mention your participation to your friends or to include the link in the already published article. You are still required to link to the edition where your post appear as soon as possible after publication.
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