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As you know, this blog is a meeting place for Australian bloggers. It's a place for us to gather, support and encourage one another through our blogs. I know that some of you have even created off-shoot blogs as a result of meeting here. Fantastic!

We share a spirit of care, community and a little bit of narcissism (hey, we all love the comments!) As I have been reflecting on the future of this blog, and of my own, I have become convicted* that the blogs I run should offer something to those beyond our own blogging community and I feel confident that many of you would share my desire (if not be acting out of even greater desire yourselves) to care for and contribute to the communities we are part of.

As we together reignite this blog and look to 2009 I have introduced a couple of ad platforms (and will continue to experiment with this) and I would like us to donate a portion of the revenue to a charity of our choosing. The remainder of the revenue will be put back into the blog, either by enabling me to run it or through prizes and giveaways.

I hope you will agree that this is a great thing to do!

This is not my blog alone, but it is our space. Together we shall choose the charity of choice! Please leave a comment below with your suggested charity. Personally I think it should be an Australian organisation (though not necessarily doing work exclusively in Australia...though it could) but that's just my suggestion. Leave your suggestions, preferably of a specific charity anytime until January 9 then I will put up a poll with all the suggestions and we will vote. Voting will close on January 18 and a winner announced in time for the first Featured Blogger of 2009 to be revealed on January 19.

I hope that as the blog grows we will be able to add to list of charities we support.

I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this and together, making a positive difference in our community.



* You can read more about this and my thoughts about giving here

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If this is your first visit to Where the Blog are you go here to find out more. Don't forget the key is in the comments so go to town, both on this site and the featured bloggers!

I've got to say, the last few weeks away from the blog has been really good for me. I feel revived, refreshed and have lost the feeling of being constantly overwhelmed...by my computer.

It looks like a new blog each 2 weeks is going to be the 'go' for next year. So...let's start getting ready. I am going to reveal the firs new blog on Jan 19 as I figure that's when everyone will be settling back into normal life after the holidays. We'll obviously go back and revisit some of the blogs from earlier this year as we 'really get to know each other'.

If you'd like your blog to be re-featured leave a comment at this post. You'll need to be willing to commit to posting a minimum of 3 times a week for each week, that's 6 posts in total -minimum.

In the meantime I'll keep blogging occasionally about things in the blogosphere that might interest you...like the post on Nuffnang below.

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If this is your first visit to Where the Blog are you go here to find out more. Don't forget the key is in the comments so go to town, both on this site and the featured bloggers!

Have you heard of Nuffnang? Nuffnang is Australia's first and leading blog advertising community. They link up bloggers in Asia-Pacific with relevant advertisers. They also pride themselves on being about more than advertising but at establishing a community for bloggers so they are going to be running events for bloggers to connect at. Sounds pretty good, I'm looking forward to seeing what they have in store.

Nuffnang is looking for more Australian bloggers, big and small, to join the community. So if that's you I suggest you head on over and sign up. I like Nuffnang, I like that they are working hard to make the right fit between bloggers and advertisers because it's keeps everyone happy - mostly you, my readers! I also like the idea of growing a local blog community. That's what WTBAY was (and will be again) about I am excited about connecting with other Aussie bloggers, not just the many (awesome) American ones about.

If you want to know who else is part of Nuffnang you can visit some of the other bloggers:

Rachel
Sam
Tina
Kelly

Hi all,

I've added a link in the sidebar on the right to a site called Product Review. It looks like this:

If you haven't come across this site before then let me give you a brief overview. It's a site with reviews from people just like you and me of basically anything you may ever want to buy! People go there to share their likes and dislikes of the things they have bought making it a great site to visit before making any big purchases of your own. I have used it quite a few times when looking to buy things for my little girl. I thought you might find it useful in the lead up to Christmas.

The other great thing about the site is that you earn points for writing reviews. So while you're there looking up potential Chrissie presents you might want to add your own thoughts about a product you own.

Sounds like a win/win to me! Perhaps you'd like to check it out?

Welcome to Where the blog are you? !

This blog is a community of Australian bloggers who support one another & love all thing Australian!
Our readership is focused on Australians living here and abroad so products that are Australian made are highly appealing.

If you have a product or company that you would like to promote on the blog please send an email to thebloggingaussie@gmail.com

We will only write positive reviews of products and will therefore only promote products that we genuinely like and would be happy to recommend to a friend or family member.