Today I’m doing a LONG put off job of going through all 250 members of the Bloggers who Embellish webring and emailing the code to those who don’t have it on their blog, deleting dead end links, updating people who have forgotten to update their info on the list and generally doing a ton of work to it. I’m also going to update the main page so that there’s a bit more information on it.
I have to say, this webring has taken on a life of it’s own…there are a ton of new members, (mostly from TAST) and some amazing amazing blogs on the ring. However, it’s a ton of work for a “sideline”. I’m happy to keep maintaining it, but I’d love any help anyone can offer. I emailed Sharon this week for any “words of wisdom” and I think she may echo my plea on her blog!
One of the policies of the ring (early on) was to allow everyone..especially first time bloggers. However, this means leaving some folks in the ring who are still “code” challenged! I established a Yahoo Group to help folks with this and it’s laid dormant for a while. I’m going to send out an invitation email to the ring folks again to see if they want to rejoin, but that group is there to help! Hopefully it will start back up again!
I will also reassure those that are waiting in the queue that I don’t even look at it until weekends when I go through and approve all folks individually. There are always a lot of spam entries (ick) and some foreign language blogs, etc to wade through, but for the most part we keep getting better!
Anyway, wish me luck, and you may get emails from me asking you to update ring codes, post or whatever! 🙂