New Inspirations aka BlogShare Contest!

Not too long ago, I participated in a collective blog sharing project that was a lot of fun. I’m modifying that same idea a bit here, but this is for my fellow bloggers. You know who you are! I’d like to showcase some other bloggers for a change, catch up on some fresh perspectives, and hopefully, meet some new bloggers, too. To make it fun, I’ll even throw in a prize. Here’s how it’ll work:

I’m going to give a topic, and then any blogger out there can write a blog on that topic on their own blog page.
Put the first three sentences of your blog here as a comment, and then add “Read More” with a hyperlink to your own original blog article, on your site.
I’ll update the blog with a running list of “entries,” and I’ll also do my social media thing, promoting this contest. You should too!
The winner will be based on the “click-throughs” according to my site analytics.
The blogger with the highest average number of click-throughs per day wins the prize as long as the easy-breezy rules below are followed.

Easy enough, right?

A few rules, though:

No profanity, please, and keep your content appropriate to a wide viewing audience.
Limit your blogs to no more than 750 words.
Include a link to this blog in yours so that others can find the contest and see your fellow bloggers, too.

That’s it!

The contest runs from the time of this post through Labor Day, and click-throughs cease to be counted as of midnight, September 5th. I’ll announce the winner on Tuesday, September 6, 9:00 am (CST).

Oh yeah, the prize….Well, suffice it to say that it will be a box of goodies for which I will need a mailing address, and it will be geographically relevant to wherever the winner lives as well. Curious? Guess you’ll have to play along.

Drum roll, please…..The topic is… “Things I Never Thought I Would Do/Say And Why I Changed My Mind.”

Have fun – Blog away – and I can hardly wait to see what you have to say!

The Entries – In Submission Order:
(Remember, the first 3 sentences of each submisstion blog appear as comments below so you can preview the blog opening!)

1. “Never Say Never” - Amanda, Blog Title: Meet the Joiners

2. “To Kill An Eagle” – Nat, Blog Title: behind these asian eyes

3. “It Changes Everything” – Erika, Blog Title: something beautiful

4. “I Never Thought I’d…” - Frankie, Blog Title: Frankie Rodriquez

About Camille Rodriquez

Mrs. Camille Rodriquez is a wife and mother, with experience as a pastor’s wife for more than a decade and as a homeschool mom for almost 20 years. She has been an educator in their home, in a private school, and more recently as an administrator in an online program serving students across the country. Through that role, she dove into the world of social media, and has found her niche – the place where education, integrity, and marketing all come together. Her company, Polka Dot Impressions, is a social media marketing company where she works with a limited client base in order to uniquely customize their social media presence. Camille has led numerous Bible studies for women, as well as Marriage and Parenting classes with her pastor-husband. She serves as the Women’s Pastor at their church, Living Stones Church. And her first published book, When I Die: On Being, Living, and Having the Last Word, is now available wherever books are sold. It’s a look at funerals, but it’s not about death. It’s about life, and what it means to live with no regrets before you arrive at your own funeral!

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Posted on August 30, 2011, in Thoughts and Reflections and tagged and labor day, blog contests, click throughs, drum roll, site analytics, viewing audience. Bookmark the permalink. 7 Comments.

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Amanda J. | August 31, 2011 at 9:15 pm

Today during my lunch break, I had a needle put into my skull. As I mentioned in a recent post, I never in a million years would have thought I would willingly subject myself to such “torture,” let alone be enthusiastic about doing so. But as I also mentioned, that is just one item on what has become a long list of things that I have done as a result of infertility that I never thought I would (or could) do.

Read more: http://bjandaj.blogspot.com/2011/08/never-say-never.html

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Nat Bradford | September 1, 2011 at 2:17 pm

My father once told me that two things kill eagles: the smell of perfume and exposure to gasoline. Ergo, when my hormones started moshing and a set of car keys found my hand, all bets were off concerning me and the highest rank awarded by the Boy Scouts of America. At the age of sixteen, adolescence dictated Boy Scouts are part of “The Nerd Herd” (I’ll never forget you, John Logan); however, a decade later, I realize the importance of reclamation for things long ago renounced.

Read More: http://natsaninja.blogspot.com/2011/09/to-kill-eagle.html

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Erika B. | September 1, 2011 at 4:23 pm

Most Americans, myself usually included, hold pretty fast to the belief that money equals a certain degree of security. Gainfully employed since the age of about eleven, I’ve always been a saver: every dollar tucked away giving me a little leg up against the “what ifs” my mind constantly conjures up. If you’d told me a few years ago that I would willingly gamble away every dollar to my name (and a few I borrowed) on something that is almost certain to fail, I would have laughed in your face.

Read more: http://mattyerika.blogspot.com/2011/09/it-changes-everything.html

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Frankie Rodriquez | September 1, 2011 at 8:34 pm

Recently I picked up a book by W. Bruce Cameron and began speaking in a third language. I’m asked very often I am bilingual. My answer is, “I speak two languages but that only makes me bi-illiterate. So what am I if I now speak three idioms?

Read more: http://frankierodriquez.com/2011/09/01/i-never-thought-id/

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Cindy Lara | September 5, 2011 at 11:42 pm

I never thought I would have so much stuff that I would have to learn how to organize it! As a teen, I aspired to riding horses on a ranch, singing camp songs at the top of my lungs from Broken Arrow Ranch, missionary work for the children overseas- and going to the beach in my spare time. None of my dreams included a ton of things

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Camille Rodriquez | September 6, 2011 at 3:40 pm

Since the purpose of this “contest” was to gain new insights, see new bloggers, and hopefully get some new readers to your blogs and mine, I would say that I have both thoroughly enjoyed reading new blogs/new insights and I have added your blogs to my reading list, so please, by all means, keep blogging! I’ve enjoyed your perspectives! I have also seen an increase in my “daily stats,” and hopefully you have, too. So, the contest was fun and rewarding for me personally.

Now, to the results. Since as bloggers we know that our readers can be fickle, I wouldn’t want anyone to make large-scale generalizations about the results. Having said that, I will also add that the click-through numbers were seperated only by tenths of points, not whole numbers. I totaled your click-throughs from each day, divided that by the number of days that your blog was linked here, and got an average for each of you. The highest average was…Amanda J., and I will be delivering her box of goodies this week.

Keep in mind that you may have had larger numbers on your stats than I had in click-throughs because to show up with a “hard number” for counting, the reader had to be sent here to this post, read your comments, and click on your blog to get “counted.” If they already follow your blog, it’s likely they just went to your site directly. So again, don’t make any generalizations about this “contest” as it is only a reflection of the click-throughs on readership that can vary from day to day.

Enough caveats for you? Bless you guys for joining in and playing along! If you ever do something similar, please let me know -

Camille

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