Good morning, everyone!

I have to apologize for not passing as much attention to this group as
I should over the course of the past couple weeks. However, I have a
good reason!

A few weeks ago, I was contacted by the folks at The Rising Blogger.
The site was in trouble and they needed contributing writers in order
to carry on. I told them that I had no interest in "working for"
someone else as a contributor (I already do that at Write Anything, as
you know). However, I let them know that if they were not able to
carry on, I would be willing to take over the site. I had some
specific ideas about changing the site design and approach that I was
interested in implementing, if given the opportunity.

Sure enough. About a week and a half ago, they contacted me again to
say that if I still wanted the site, they would give it to me.

So I got busy! First, I secured a domain name. Then I imported 304
posts from Blogger to WordPress and set about designing the theme &
reformatting all those posts. The job is not close to completion, but
I'm plugging away at it as time allows.

Yesterday, I bestowed my first "Post of the Day Award" upon Laura at
Adventures in Juggling. You can read it here:
http://www.therisingblogger.com

The Rising Blogger is devoted to spotlighting the best work of
bloggers but it is unlike other "review" sites because the focus is on
outstanding individual articles. While other sites review a blog, The
Rising Blogger reviews a particular post and bestows a "Post of the
Day Award" which includes a badge to be displayed on the recipient's
site. The purpose is to unite bloggers and readers. Many people have
discovered and regularly read certain blogs as result of discovering
them via The Rising Blogger.

I invite all of you to be on the lookout for worthy posts and nominate
them to be featured as a Post of the Day. You can also submit a post
from one of your own sites!

Also, I am looking for contributors so if you are interested in
writing for The Rising Blogger, please drop me a line at
jhsesq@.... You do not need to commit to writing a
certain number of posts on specified days unless, of course, you want
to do that. You can be a casual contributor, publishing a post as you
feel inspired to do so and have time.

Finally, would you all be so kind as to send me an email listing each
of your Entrecard-participating sites so that I can 1) visit each site
and compile an accurate list of our members' sites; and 2) assure that
each member site is displaying the Entre Family 125 x 125 badge and/or
the little icon that fits right under the Entrecard widget. That's
also a hint: All members of this group are asked to display one or
both on their sites with a link back to our Yahoo page or the Entre
Family page at Colloquium (http://www.jhsiess.com/entrefamily) so if
you haven't added them, please do so now!

THANKS for being part of the Entre Family!

JHS