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Here They Are

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I want to thank you all, for your hard work at promoting the calendar contest.  All told we had 3,202 voters!  That to me is totally amazing.

Not surprising to any of you who voted, the top spot was quite a competition.  Right from the start Ryder came out hard and fast, but Teach quickly caught up.  Unfortunately there can only be one cover spot and that spot belongs to Ryder from All Things Collie.

The rules this year stated the dog with the most votes could choose which month they’d like to be featured in, and Ryder has chosen the month of July.  Which means the calendar will shake out like this:

 

There you have it, the twelve dogs who will be featured in the 2014 Dogs of Blogville Calendar.  The good news is that while these twelve dogs are being featured, all of the dogs will be included in the calendar!

I know you’re all dying to know the details of ordering, but I haven’t quite gotten that figured out yet.   Last year it was a combination of paypal and e-mail and required me keeping a spreadsheet and matching e-mails to paypal to spreadsheet, well you get the point.  I’m currently looking for a plug in that will allow me to gather all the information right here on the blog to make it a tad bit easier.

Last year the calendars sold for $20 with just about $10 of it going to our blog friends at Champion of My Heart.  I anticipate the price will be the same as last year but was hoping I could get folks to help out by consolidating orders.

Example, you have five co-workers who want calendars.  You collect their money and place one order for six calendars. I send you six calendars which saves about $25 in shipping, which in turn will go into our fund for our friend Benny.  Then you in turn distribute the calendars to your co-workers.  It will also help me in my record keeping.

What you can do now is start asking around to all your friends who voted and ask them if they will be ordering calendars.  Get a good idea of many people want them.

In the meantime, I will work on a system for ordering and Julie will start working on the calendar.  By this time next week I hope to have everything in place so we can start taking orders.

Again thank you all for the hard work you did in promoting your blog and pictures, let’s make this next phase of our fundraiser just as successful!

It’s Here!!

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It’s time!  It’s time!!  The 2nd Annual Dogs of Blogville Contest has now begun.

First I’d like to say a really BIG thank you to Julie from the Daily Dog Blog, she’s worked so hard resizing all the photos so they would work nice on the blog.  She will also be the one who handles all the technical details of the design and upload of the calendar.  She is truly one amazing lady and a really good friend. Make sure you stop by and say hi.

So this is it.  We’ve crossed our i’s and dotted our t’s t’s and dotted our i’s. We’ve been as thorough as we can be and we’ve learned a few things along the way and I’m sure we’ll learn a few more things in the next week.  In fact, I think I’m going to make a page specifically for this contest.  Hopefully next year will run much smoother for us. 😀

This is the voting portion of the Dogs of Blogville Calendar contest.  It’s all about YOU and how YOU promote your dogs/blog.

Here’s how it works.  You tweet, facebook, blog whatever you want but direct people to come and vote for your photo.  The photo with the most votes will be on the cover AND will get their choice of which month they’d like to be featured in.  I have to forewarn you, last year’s winner All Things Collie really brings their A game, this lady is hardcore. 🙂

The next eleven photos with the top votes will be featured in order (minus whatever month the winner chooses.)

All participating dogs will be featured in the calendar on the back page(s).

After the voting process is complete, we will give you information about ordering.

It’s not so much a popularity contest as much as it is you getting the word out and having people come and vote.

I’ve tried to organize everything alphabetically but I’m human and I can make mistakes, if you see one please let me know and I’ll do my best to fix it.

One more quick note before I turn you loose to look at photos.  You will notice that there are two blogs in the list that don’t have photos.   I’ve contacted both blogs and am giving them another day to get their photos in, if I don’t have have their photos by Monday, I will sadly have no other choice but to remove them from the competition.

About the voting process.  Voting opens today at 12:00 noon Eastern Standard time (NYC) it is limited to one IP ADDRESS per 24 hour period.   For those of you with multi-computer households it is important to remember that any smart phone, tablet, computer that shares a network also shares an IP address.  If you vote on your computer then try and vote on your phone, chances are it won’t work, unless you disconnect from your network. If someone tells you they tried to vote and they can’t, then that is probably the issue.

Voting ends next Sunday, September 1, 2013 at noon.

The voting tool is AFTER the photos, all you do MOM is scroll down to the little circle next to Sampson and Delilah’s name and click it.   The move down to the button that says VOTE and click that.  Easy Peasy!!

Here is the list of participating dogs along with their blogs.

Alma and Moses from Back Alley Soapbox

Bella from I Still Want More Puppies

Bella from Bringing Up Bella

Benny and Lily from Two French Bulldogs

Blueberry from Spotty, Spotty, Polkadotty

Bunny from Tales and Tails

Cupcake from No Dog About It

Desmond from Life With Desmond

Dougall and Alex from The Dougall Diaries

Emma from My GBGV Life

Frankie and Ernie from FRANKly and ERNESTly Speaking

Freckles from A Day In The Life Of A Goose

Gizmo from Terrier Torrent

Greta, Bailey, and Hazel and from Idaho PugRanch

Hailey and Zaphod from The Hailey and Zaphod Chronicles

Kolchak Puggle from Kol’s Notes

Lassiter Chase and Benjamin from Lassiter Chase and Benjamin the Shelties

Lily and Muffin from The Doxie Life of Lily, Muffin and their Humans

Lola and Lucy from Wear. Wag. Repeat

Maya from American Dog Blog

Molly from Molly the Wally

Norman from Sand Spring Chesapeake’s

Ranger from The Adventures of Ranger – The Scottie Pup

Reilly and Denny from The Cowspotdogs

Rita from Pooch Smooches

Roxy from Roxy the Traveling Dog

Ryder from All Things Collie

Sampson and Delilah from Heart Like a Dog

Sasha from Silly Sasha the Loveable Shih Tzu

Shiloh and Diva Shasta from TEAM BEAGLEBRATZ

Shiva from Rescued Insanity

Susie “Sweetie Petunia” of The Mad Scots

Teach from Tails of Teach

Winston from The Winston Blog

Wrigs from Life with Wrigs: hike, play, eat, nap!

Zuzu from Me, You and Zu

Click on any photo to enlarge it.

As you can see the photos are amazing, I’m so impressed with all of your photography skills and feel woefully inadequate in my feeble attempts.

Have you decided on your favorite?  Okay!  Then vote!

(Just a reminder, if you don’t have a dog in this contest, Sampson and Delilah would sure love your vote.) 😀

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Dogs of Blogville Calendar Contest

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So at long last (at least it seems like that since the idea first fermented in my head) here is the Dogs of Blogville Calendar Contest.

Here are the rules according to me:

  • One vote per IP/Cookie per 24 hour period (if I set the voting portion up correctly, this will work.)  If I didn’t please be kind and follow the rules.  This is a fun event to raise money for some fellow bloggers, so please be fair.
  • Promote this contest, just because you only have one ip/cookie address doesn’t mean you can’t promote this on your blog and through your other forms of social media.
  • Voting begins today at 6:00 am, and it ends next Saturday, November 24th at 6:00 am (once again that’s if I’ve set the voting plug-in up properly.  If I haven’t I will go in and manually close the poll.)
  • The proceeds from the sale of the calendars (after production costs and shipping) will be donated to our blogville friends in need at Life with Desmond and Champion of My Heart.  How much the proceeds are will depend on how many calendars are sold. I’d like to keep the cost at about $20 per calendar (including shipping) the more we sell the less we pay for the calendars and the more we can donate.

Some random stuff you might want to know.

As of right now I think I will be using Vistaprint to make the calendars as I am very familiar with their products and have had good luck with them. If anyone has any better printing options PLEASE contact me directly or leave it in the comments.

When you are promoting this contest, please let your followers know that they will be able to purchase calendars also.

Anyone that wants to purchase calendars, send me an e-mail at stone.jodi@ymail.com and I will send you my paypal information.

I will not order a calendar for you unless you have already paid for it.

My goal is to have the calendars into as many hands as possible by Christmas.

Well here they finally are. The dogs of Blogville.

 

 

I’d like to thank all the bloggers who participated in this event, they are:

1 – Ginger from Daschies With Moxie

2 – Frankie and Ernie from Frankly Speaking

3 – Ryder and Kori from All Things Collie

4- Fozzie from Peaceful Dog

5 – Toby from Just Toby

6 – Molly from Molly The Wally

7 – Aladdin from DOGnormous

8 – Queenie from thecvillean

9 – Emma from mygbgvlife

10 – Schatzie from My Girlz Got Paws

11 – Cupcake from Cupcake Speaks

12 – Elka from The Elka Almanac

13 – Cali from The Daily Dog Blog

14 – Shiva from Rescued Insanity

15 – Maia and Titan from Misty Shores Chesapeakes

16 – Mazzie from Mazzie Takes Manhattan

17 – Blueberry from Spotty, Spotty, Polkadotty

18 – Honey from Something Wagging

19 – Mollie from Mollie and Alfie

20 – Sampson and Delilah from Heart Like a Dog

If I left anyone out or made any mistakes, please let me know!

Let the voting begin.

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