03 October 2007

Homeschooling Network

I just started a Feedburner network for homeschooling blogs. If you would be interested in joining, please let me know and I will send you an invitation.

Essentially, this will pull all member feeds into one place. Here is the page for the Homeschooling Network, but at the moment, I am the only one there. Here is the Family Friendly Network so you can see what the page looks like when there is more than one member.

There are a number of advantages to this network, I believe. The page will allow interested readers to peruse a number of posts from the homeschooling community quickly and you can subscribe to the network's feed to have that delivered straight to your feed reader. You can also download all member feeds as an opml file if you desire.

When you accept the invitation, you will be asked if you are interested in hosting advertising in your feed, which is purely optional. That may be an advantage to some, and a non-issue for others.

Qualifications:

1) Your blog must be a "homeschooling blog." That does not mean that everything you write about has to be about homeschooling, but readers should be able to tell you homeschool.

2) Your blog must be family-friendly. That means no pornography or profanity.

That is all I can think of. I would like this network to be about promoting homeschooling, not necessarily any one view of homeschooling. Whether you homeschool for religious or secular reasons is not an issue.

All I need to know is that a) you are interested and b) your email address. Then I can send you an invitation and you can sign up.

If you do not have an account with FeedBurner, I can try to help you through setting one up. It really is pretty self-explanatory, but if you have any questions at all, please ask! Then you can stick this in your sidebar, if you want:



And, obviously, if you are interested, I would also appreciate any help promoting this. The more the network is known, the more it may be of use to people interested in homeschooling!

Take a look at Serious Learning's sidebar. You can put that together yourself through FeedBurner once you sign up, but I'll put something similar together and post the code for anyone interested when I get back from vacation (and finish moving to my new blog address).

And somewhere to go if you need help with all of this FeedBurner stuff.


47 comments:

Wendy said...

I'd like an invite...
my blog is www.seriouslearning.com, email is wendy _AT_ seriouslearning.com

Dana said...

That was fast! And the invite is "in the mail!" If you do not get it, let me know and I will resend it.

Wendy said...

Got it... I'll set up the bling on my sidebar tonight too. Thanks.

Dana said...

Great! And welcome!

Kymberlyn said...

I would love to be included, but I'm not certain you would consider virtual school students as part of s homeschool network. If not, I understand. No matter what, I think it is a great idea. And I look forward to visiting the blogs in the directory :)

Dana said...

Kymberlyn, let me think about it. You do have a lot of information helpful to homeschoolers. But I do want to try to stay somewhat consistent with criteria!

Renae said...

I'm interested. I don't know much about feedburner and I've only been blogging for a few months, but I'll give it a whirl...

renaejohns at suddenlink dot net

Thanks,

Renae @ Planting Seeds

Dana said...

Just sent the invitation. Let me know if you do not get it, or have any trouble setting it up.

Since you are on blogger, it is very simple. And if you want to redirect your current feed through Feedburner, Blogger has made that pretty simple. Then you can know how many subscribers you have.

Hercules Mulligan said...

BTW, guys, the Christian Constitutional Society, which Alexander Hamilton proposed in 1802, has now been officially established!
http://www.christianconstitutionalsociety.org/

Heather said...

Would love to join. (Meant to do this earlier but was AFK all day. :))

heather_at_gracedbychrist.com
http://www.gracedbychrist.com

lynnak said...

Hi Dana,
Great idea! One of those things I thought had already been done. Please sign me up.
homeschool2point0.com
lynn at kja.us

Hercules Mulligan said...

There is a new blogring up. Maybe you would like to join it; I have. You can be a "Friend of Liberty" by leaving a comment at this post and pasting the button that it gives you on your sidebar!

Silly Dreamer said...

Hmmm... I will have to tell mom about this.

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment....

And the fact that you know at what age a Hobbit is an adult cracks me up! Sooo... you've seen LOTR or read the books?!

Thank you for your encouragement. It is always welcome and appreciated! Thank you!

Your long lost (little) sister (LOL!)
Jocelyn

Dana said...

Lynn, I was surprised it didn't already exist as well. But it does now, and you and Heather should be getting the invitation fairly soon. I don't know how long the delay is, but it shouldn't be long!

Dana said...

Jocelyn, I read the books. The movie was alright, but nothing compared to the books.

And I grew up with the important knowledge that no one is really an adult until you are 33, even before I read The Hobbit. My dad just thought that sounded right because you are old enough to be through the impulsivity of youth and have enough stake in your present and future to calm you down a bit.

In fact, I got a special congratulations on my 33rd birthday for finally entering adulthood.

Anne said...

Sounds cool! I'd like to join, too.
palmtreepundit at hawaii. rr. com

Dana said...

Great! I was just contemplating whether or not to send you an email to see if you would like to join!

Anne said...

Dana, if you sent an email, I didn't get it, and I even checked my junk folder. Can you try again? Might be best to click the link on the right sidebar of my blog. Thanks!

Dana said...

Ok, Palmtreepundit, take two. I wonder if I left a space in it or something?

If it doesn't go through this time, let me know again!

Anne said...

I got it this time, Dana, and went through the process. Am now wondering if it worked. I'd like to use your sidebar graphic, but I don't know how. Can you help?

Dana said...

Anne, it looks to me like it worked. I sent you an email, though. Let me know if you have any other questions...or if I did not even answer what you are asking.

Rose said...

woohoo! sign me up (please).

homeschoolmom @ thespeechworks.com
http://learningathome.freedomblogging.com/

thanks,
Rose

DJ Lakedreamer said...

Hi Dana,

I'm interested. I don't know anything about feedburner and I don't have an account. Let me know what I need to do.

Thanks,
DJ

Cato said...

I'd like to join this Homeschool Network. I've never used Feedburner before. Is this a requirement?

Dana said...

Great! DJ, I know I should have your email somewhere, but I think it got purged in the last email deletion. Do you mind emailing me? That is all I need to get the invitation out to you.

Dana said...

nevermind, DJ, I found it. Everyone up to here has been sent an invitation. If you did not receive it let me know. I will put together a post this weekend answering the questions I have received so far, but don't hesitate to ask if you have any trouble!

April said...

I'd like in, if you allow riff-raff.

question.the.culture (at) gmail.com

TC said...

Yes, please!

tcrulz@hotmail.com

Dana said...

I don't discriminate against riff raff or people with fish in their hair, so invitations are sent to both of you!

Denise said...

Hi, Dana! I tried to leave a comment earlier, but I guess my Internet connection isn't communicating properly. Happens too often! Anyway, I would like to join in the fun, if I may.
letsplaymath at gmaildotcom

Anonymous said...

I'd like to join. :)

www.homeschoolblogger.com/westward
cindykwest@hotmail.com

Lori said...

I am interested in joining. :^)

lori (at) campcreekpress (dot) com

Camp Creek Blog:

http://www.campcreekpress.com

Thank you!

Summer said...

Wow, I did not know that feedburner had networks like this. :) I'd like an invite.

summer.minor@451press.net

Gherkin Pickle said...

This sounds great. I would love an invite. Blog is http://wickedpickles.blogspot.com. Email is wickedpickles@gmail.com

EJ Cooksey said...

Hi Dana,

Sorry it took me so long to respond to this. I just found your comment over at bumpzee.

I would like to have my homeschool blog included in this.

http://homeschoolingozarks.blogspot.com/

cooksey@ejcooksey.com

Thanks for the invite.

Silvia said...

I'd love to join! http://pomoyemu.blogspot.com
Thanks!
Silvia

Jacque Dixon said...

Sign me up. I have an account.
I saw this last week and didn't let you know. This is a great idea. Whenever you do anything like this, just know I support you and want to be a part of it!!
You can send Jocelyn an invite too (if you like). Hers is missjocelyn@kconline. And, Amanda's is missamanda.
TOTALLY had to laugh at the hobbit info. LOVE your Dad's reasoning on the age 33. I agree. I think I finally got a clue (albeit a bit of one) when I hit 25. I have no idea why 25 was hard, but, hey, man, I was turning a 1/4 of a century old! hehehehh.
Now, I'm almost 40. LOL. I wouldn't go back to 25, tho. Maybe 30 ... or 35.
Hugs and take care! Enjoy your vacation time!
-J

Anonymous said...

raingirl18(at)gmail.com sign me up!

christinemm said...

Would you please add me to this network? I qualify with the rules.

With your help I just signed up with FeedBurner.

My email is
christinemm
at
snet
dot
net

Thank you!
ChristineMM of The Thinking Mother

My Twenty Cents Keeps Moving said...

I would love to be a part!

~Leslie
lesliecardwell(at)bellsouth(dot)net

Kate said...

I would like to join as well.
reflectionsofcalm.blogspot.com
dkcdac at yahoo dot com

Kate

Missy said...

I think this sounds interesting and I would like to give it a go. I have two blogs about homeschooling and book reviews for homeschool, so I don't know which to do, or both would be ok. You can contact me at missy903 at bellsouth dot net
Blessings,
Missy

Karen said...

I would like an invitation, please.

Karen said...

Oops--didn't finish!

http://thomasinstitute.blogspot.com

k stuteville at norfolk and western - ry dot com

Thank you!
I'll add a post about the network and a sidebar link to my blog.

Dana said...

OK, I am caught up to here! If you left a request above and have not received an invitation (or are having difficulty with it) please let me know!

Shauna said...

Please send me an invitation: shaunarum at gmail dot com

Thanks!

Theresa said...

I would like an invitation also. :o)

kidzanddogs@comcast.net

www.homeschoolblogger.com/kidzanddogs

 
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