{"id":2667,"date":"2010-03-22T08:11:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=2667"},"modified":"2010-03-22T10:02:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T17:02:09","slug":"april-is-guest-post-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/22\/april-is-guest-post-month\/","title":{"rendered":"April is Guest Post Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<dl class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 510px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7502393@N04\/472028910\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Welcome: Key is Under this Mat\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/212\/472028910_ec8f1fde23.jpg\" alt=\"Welcome by alborzshawn via Flickr\" width=\"500\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>29 guests are invited to my house. Bring something to share. Seriously. Just show up in my in-box, there&#8217;s nothing else to do.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying an experiment. I&#8217;d like to see if I can get 29 posts, one every day for the month of April. 29 posts, one every day, written by <strong>you<\/strong>. Why 29? I&#8217;m keeping April 1 so everyone knows it&#8217;s not a joke.<\/p>\n<p>A few guidelines for my sanity.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Word count: 1200 words maximum. Count your words.<\/li>\n<li>Travel stories only: No product\/service\/website pitches. No travel tips. No &#8220;how to be a better blogger&#8221; tips. No top 10 lists. No trip reports &#8212; &#8220;We went here, did this.&#8221; No. Stories, please.<\/li>\n<li>Photo posts? YES! I&#8217;ll take a single photo post with a brief description, I love good photography. Send me a link to the image and your descriptive text.<\/li>\n<li>Video? Sure as long as it&#8217;s a travel story! Send the embedding code.<\/li>\n<li>Editorial crankiness: I&#8217;ll try to dial it back some but, I&#8217;m uppity about writing, so it&#8217;s going to be hard. With that in mind, I might not publish everything I get. This is old but still MOSTLY true. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogher.com\/node\/8212\">Check it out<\/a>, it might help.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Want in? Send me your post with a title via email &#8212; my address is up there in the top right corner. Paste the text in the body of the email. If you want a photo, one ONLY, (make it count!), include a link to the photo. Scribble me a two or three line byline and make sure you&#8217;ve included a link to your blog so I can link back to you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FAQ<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Second hand work? Sure, why not. I love a thrift store bargain. Some of  my favorite things are second hand. It&#8217;s fine if it ran on your blog  first. Please be sure you have the rights if it&#8217;s run somewhere else.<\/li>\n<li>Aren&#8217;t you a tyrant about bloggers getting paid? You bet I am. By corporate entities, this means you, first name rhymes with Muffington, for example. But I actually do send out a guest post here and there. Not often, but usually because someone has asked real nice and it&#8217;s a good fit for what I do.<\/li>\n<li>Can I pick my day? No, sorry. I&#8217;ll schedule posts as they come in.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not a travelblogger&#8230;can I&#8230;? Hey, if it&#8217;s a travel story, you are in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Questions? In the comments. And hey, thanks for playing!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7502393@N04\/472028910\/\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Image credit: Welcome by alborzshawn via Flickr\/Creative Commons<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29 guests are invited to my house. Bring something to share. Seriously. Just show up in my in-box, there&#8217;s nothing else to do. I&#8217;m trying an experiment. I&#8217;d like to see if I can get 29 posts, one every day for the month of April. 29 posts, one every day, written by you. 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