Thursday, May 27, 2004
CotC Reminder and Guidelines Update
Carnival of the Capitalists next appears at Small Business Trends. This is a reminder to send your entries to the capitalists -at- elhide.com alias per usual by sometime on Sunday for the Monday edition.
This is also the first place I am going to mention new guidelines I will be promoting to avoid certain problems.
When submitting a post, please clearly indicate in the subject what it is for with a designation such as CotC in the subject.
When submitting, please not only include the blog name, blog URL, and post URL, but also a brief summary or description of what the post is about that even someone alien to the topic could follow. I expect each host to read each post to know what they are linking as they put the CotC together, but when I hosted I remember having to read one or two of them twice or three times to understand what they were about because they were highly technical. Conversely, I had to reread a couple that seemed borderline or off topic to try to get an idea how the sender thought they fit CotC. I didn’t want to reject anyone. If you describe your own submission, it will double as a sanity check as to whether it fits the broad but not all encompassing “biz and econ” topic range. It will help ensure the host knows it is on topic and understands how to describe it or has a ready made description to crib. I’d consider this all the more important if you send your entry toward the last minute.
If you are hosting, please consider acknowledging each submission so the sender can know for sure it went through. I am not sure how much is spam filters, how much is excluding posts from CotC because they seem inappropriate (I always say err on the side of inclusion) without letting the sender know, or how much, if any, might be rejection due to the mail going through a forwarder.
The capitalists alias is a convenience. Senders are welcome to seek out and use the actual e-mail address of the host as well.
Please be careful where you send. It’s capitalists. If you use capitalist -at- elhide.com, it will bounce over to me. Ditto for cc -at- elhide.com, which is the address of a read-only announcement mailing list. Hosts is a mailing list you should be on if you have ever volunteered to host CotC, whether your turn has arrived yet or not. Subscribers may post to that one from their subscribed address to discuss CotC hosting, though in practice the only posts are usually my announcements it is up.
That’s all I can think of for now. At some point I will update the info page, but for not I’ll link this post from there and try to publicize the above guidelines as far and wide as possible.