This week’s Christian Carnival is up at Brain Cramps for God. Because of the recent transitions we’ve gone through, John themed this week’s carnival around informing everyone of the new changes. I’ll recap those here.

Google Group for Notification of Members

We have set up a new Google Group – Christian Carnival II – as a notification list to tell folks who the next host is, where to send the submissions, and when the Carnival is posted. Even if you on not own a blog (or never intend to submit to the Carnival), but you would like to be notified of where and when the Carnival will be posted, please go and join this group. Incidentally, there is no reason to join if you pick the “no email” option: you do not have to be a member to read the notices at the site; and the only purpose of the Google Group is email notification about the Carnival.

All messages to the group are moderated except for those of the moderators; and the current host. Incidentally, there are five “owners” of this group with equal access – we will not lose access to it if one person is no longer available. Once you join, you will be able to see how to send messages to the group (which, again, will be moderated)

Submission Gmail

There is also one email to send all submissions for the Carnival to. The moderators will make sure the forwarding is flipped when it should be flipped. Again, there are five moderators to make sure these tasks are done.

So, again, send all submissions to the Christian Carnival to the gmail email.

Christian Carnival Forum

One of the blessings of the current situation is that Nick Queen, the original founder of the Christian Carnival, is actively involved again – and came up (with help from others) with the Christian Carnival Forum. It is a bulletin board type site, and it allows the scope of the Carnival to expand greatly – the ideas for its use are just beginning to be explored. Go visit, look around at some of the discussions, and give your ideas.

Practically, it is serving three real functions right now:

1. A place to discuss how, why, and when we are going to use these new tools
2. A place to volunteer to host a future Carnival
3. A place to link posts that will, or could, not, for one reason or other, be submitted to the Carnival – but would be of interest to Carnival readers

I am sure more uses are coming – how would you use it? To paraphrase an old TV show: “We have re-built it; and it is stronger than ever”.

One last new item is that we are back up and running on the Blog Carnival site. You can use the handy submission form and see a schedule of past (beginning with last week’s carnival) and future carnivals.

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