A Passion for Nature Added to Blogs

The blog "A Passion for Nature" by Jennifer Schlick, WinterWoman, has been added to the roll. Jennifer is a a teacher-naturalist living and working in Western New York. She shares a passion for hiking with me. Her usual haunt is the Finger Lakes Trail.

Gail Birdtale Added to Blogs

Today, I am adding Gail Birdtale's blog. Gail and husband Ferd live in North Carolina, and they like hiking and birdwatching. Gail takes great pictures of the wild visitors to her back yard, with occasional appearances from her cat.

Progress On Publicizing

This blog is now a member of the Adgitize and Entrecard Networks. I also have contacted half of the charter inductees to offer them a graphic showing their membership and linking to this blog. If you haven't heard from me, and are in this group, email me at jhy @ t-one.net. It's tricky to do all this contacting!

Created Graphics for Use by Included Blogs

Today I finished creating small banners that member bloggers can use to link to this site, and began notifying them. This brings the number of blog posts to five, so I can now apply to have this blog added to Entrecard.

Going Public Today

Tonight I will start publicizing this list, and work on getting it added to several blog networks. All 20 Charter Inductees have been contacted, and some have responded that they are glad to see such a collection.

Contacting the 20 Charter Inductees

Today I finished adding the links to other sites of mine that I would like to promote, and will begin contacting the 20 bloggers that I have selected to the the Charter Inductees! There won't be a limit to membership. It's more a case of how many appropriate blogs I can find.

I see that two of my choices have not posted for several months, but I'll leave them in the list. The sorting will just drop them to the bottom anyway.

The one thing I am really sorry about is that Birding the the Falkland Islands doesn't seem to have a feed, so it is sitting permanently at the bottom of the list. I'll see if the blogger can provide me with one.

Adding Features and Monitization

Not being independently wealthy, I have added monetization features to this blog today, created a 125 x 125 banner for Entrecard and added some ads of my own. Still looking for more good blogs to include! It must have 5 posts to be approved by Entrecard, so I'll be tracking my progress to make it "public ready" for the next few days.