Author Archives for Sheila

Dance to the music at Carnival of Travelers


Greetings to the Home Turf Media sites and all of our readers. 
I thought you’d like to know that one of our frequent Carnival of Cities contributors, Mary Jo Manzanares from Seattle Traveler and Fly Away Cafe, is now hosting the Carnival of Travelers.
She posts it monthly, and the December topic is….drum roll….music!
If you have a good […]

Exit Row Seat is next carnival host


Just a reminder that the next Carnival of Cites on October 8, 2007 will be hosted by Exit Row Seat, so keep those cards and letters coming about any aspect of a single city….
Use this form for your one submission.

Carnival of Cities Octoberfest Edition


Welcome to the 1st of October and the latest edition of our Carnival of Cities.
I’m thrilled to report that blogs from several major travel magazines have been hanging around the Carnival, munching cotton candy and offering up words of wisdom. 
Last week, the fine folks at National Geographic Traveler magazine’s Intelligent Travel blog hosted the Carnival, […]

Carnival of Cities Welcomes Fall at Home Turf Media


Home Turf Media will bring it on back home and host our Carnival of Cities right here on Monday, October 1, 2007.
You know what to do….submit that ONE really great post from your blog about any aspect of a single city, using this form on the Blog Carnival site.
Deadline is 2 p.m. Eastern, Sunday September 30th, 2007.
It’ll be almost an Octoberfest […]

Carnival of Cities: The Hot August Night Edition


                 
It’s great to welcome everyone back to Home Turf Media and the home base for the Carnival of Cities.  My apologies to our Southern Hemisphere readers — I know it’s winter down there, but it’s hot as the dickens up on this side of the equator.
And how many of you actually have Neil Diamond’s “Hot […]

We’re back! Carnival of Cities on HTM August 27th


Home Turf Media is pleased to host the world-famous, extra-extra-read-all-about-it Carnival of Cities right here on Monday, August 27, 2007.
You know what to do….submit that ONE really great post about any aspect of a city using this form on the Blog Carnival site.
Deadline is 2 p.m. Eastern, Sunday August 26th, 2007.
See you there!

Carnival of Cities for June 18, 2007


Welcome to Home Turf Media and the latest edition of the Carnival of Cities; it’s nice to have it touch down at “home base” for a week.
I also want to take this opportunity to invite bloggers to come to Chicago, Illinois, USA for the BlogHer blogging conference July 27-29, 2007. I’ll be a speaker/panelist on Day One and […]

Welcome Back, Carnival Barkers


Awww, we missed our carnival party….it’s been lonely around here! 
Good thing that the Carnival of Cities will be back at Home Turf Media after a lot of other blogs hosted in past weeks.  This week, jaunt over to Argentina’s Travel Guide and take a trip around the world.  Thanks Cesar! 
Remember – one post only, please. 
Pick your best-written work about any aspect […]

HTM Las Vegas blog on “Budget Travel”


Good news – the very active bloggers on Budget Travel magazine’s blog “This Just In….” had nice words for Las Vegas Is Home, one of our Home Turf Media compadres.
Congrats to blogger Paul Geary! 

Home Turf Media on Newstex


It’s the “strength in numbers” idea mixed in with Home Turf Media’s goal of useful, local information from city-based blogs, written by bloggers who live there.  The HTM blogs have been picked up by Newstex!
Newstex is a content aggregation company that helps sort the millions of Internet offerings into a more manageable package of news feeds.  They […]

Sheila

I'm a writer and blogger specializing in travel, motorsports and Web 2.0/social media.


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