Welcome to the 2nd week of The SWG Coffee Social. This week I want to talk about how to meet other bloggers. Since I blog on a variety of topics; work, finance, books or whatever happens to be on my mind when I write my weekly post, I typically avoid blog carnivals. A blog carnival is a compilation of blog links usually centered around a previously determined topic posted on the carnival organizer's site. Many carnivals have a new host each week. Carnivals are an excellent way to promote your blog and to meet other bloggers in your niche.
I have found the next best thing to a blog carnival for discovering other bloggers are weekly roundup posts. I have found many of my favorite bloggers through these types of posts. Here are four bloggers I read who post weekly roundups guaranteed to provide stimulating reading:
Trent Hamm, a personal finance writer, posts a weekly roundup edition on his blog The Simple Dollar.
Nicole and Maggie who work in academia and also write about personal finance provide a Link Love post each week on their blog Grumpy Rumblings of the Untenured.
Rhea a 50-something blogger who examines mid-life crisis and ennui in America posts a Friday Links Variety Show on her blog The Boomer Chronicles.
Delia Lloyd of Real Delia who writes about finding yourself in adulthood writes a Friday Pix: Recommended Reading For The Weekend.
Speaking of weekly lists, Nicole Abdou of Destination Unknown writes a weekly list of Things I Have Learned This Week. Her lessons are inspirational and insightful. I met Nicole through the LBS tea party and she has written a guest post for this site. You can read her post I've lost my job. Now What? here.
How do you meet other bloggers? Do you participate in carnivals? Do you read weekly roundups? What blogs do you recommend reading this week?
Enjoy your Saturday and Happy Reading.
I tend to click on links from commenters and from other folks' blogrolls.
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Nicole and Maggie,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the feedback and thanks to Grace for including my blog on her blogroll.
It seems as though bloggers are getting away from blogrolls and providing add-ins of their blog and FB followers instead. I almost never click on these follower links and have found too many of them slow down the loading of these blogs; many times I click off before the blog fully loads.
I also find other bloggers through blogrolls and commenter links. I found you guys through a comment link and if I remember correctly I found Grace through The Budgeting Babe's blogroll.