Several years ago, a blogger named Nilsa hosted a blog carnival which was enormously successful. Almost 80 people signed up to anonymously guest post on someone elses’ blog for a day, and to allow someone else to post on theirs. All of these people got the chance to say something which was on their minds, but which they felt like they couldn’t say on their own blogs.
I participated in this in 2008 and thought it was an amazing idea. I hoped it would become an annual venture, but Nilsa’s life has since moved on and she never hosted it again. So I got an idea. Several days ago I sent her an email asking whether she had any plans to run it again in the future, and if she didn’t, whether she would mind if I did it here.
I am now excited to announce that she said yes, and that on the 12th of February I will be hosting BlogSecret 2011!
For those of you who did not participate in this the first time around, or who have ever heard of this concept before, the idea is quite simple. You write a blog post about something secret. Something you would like the world to know but don’t feel like you can say under your own name.
Email your post to me at adventuresofholly[at]gmail[dot]com. Please remember to include the name and URL of your blog. Please submit it by February 4th (Deadline has now been extended to February 10th!) to allow me time to put everything together.
You then take this lovely badge and upload it to your own blog (linked to this site) so that other people can come and join too! Blog, Tweet, FB about it too – anything to help spread the word! The bigger the better!
On February the 10-11th I will send you a email with someone else’s post in it. This post will have all names, web addresses and other identifying information removed from it, so even the person posting your secret won’t know it belongs to you. The only person who sees everybody’s submissions will be me. This email will also tell you which blog you can expect to see your secret on.
On the February 12th, you will copy and paste the secret emailed to you into a blog post and publish on your blog. Feel free to write an introductory message explaining what you are doing, but please leave the actual secret exactly as it is. Please also enable comments on this post so the secret’s author can receive feedback.
Also on February 12th, I will publish a list of all participating blogs, so that you can see all the other secrets and post comments.
Right! HOPEFULLY that’s everything you need to know! If you have any questions or problems, please leave a comment below, or email me adventuresofholly[at]gmail[dot]com.
Happy secret writing!
P.S: For those readers who are not already aware, I live in New Zealand, and all the days and times above therefore refer to NZ time.
I CAN’T WAIT!!! Thank you soooo much for hosting this :)
xoxo Mere
That sounds awesome! I definitely want to do it! but is it possible to request that whatever secret I be posting contain no inappropriateness, just because my blog is read by many small children and their parents?
Sounds good to me!!!
Oh cool! I participated last time and loved it! Not sure whether I’ve got a secret to share this time, but am very happy it’s happening again! Yays!
That’s awesome! I remember I missed out the last time.
I really want to take part, but I feel like even if I write that it’s a guest post that my family won’t realize it’s not me or that I didn’t pick the post and they’ll be offended or something, because they’re always offended. Well, if turn off the facebook import feature they’ll never see it, so I guess it would be OK.
Alright, I’ll do it.
Just gotta think of something to blog about…
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I’m participating! And I know what I am going to blog about!
What a fun idea! Too bad I have no secrets to blog about!! It’ll be fun to see what everyone writes though!
This is great! I’m definately going to join in; nervously.
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I am still interested!! I want to participate!!!