It’s nearly the end of July and there’s a push for blog traffic with giveaways in the air!
Bloggy Giveaways is holding its Bloggy Giveaways Quarterly Giveaway Carnival. Normally they post a site a day that is giving away something. Let me tell you… the giveaway items for this carnival are all across the board.  I’ve seen magazines, note cards, a Nintendo DS Lite, magazine subscriptions, a blog overhaul, coupons for free food, earrings, knitted items, books (children’s books, cook books, etc.) and gift cards. There are hundreds of participants. In fact, there are so many participants that I first thought Bitten By Bookswas having its own blog carnival because they’ve managed to collect donated items from other bloggers for their participation in the carnival.
So what is a blog carnival? In general, it has an organizing site that hosts a group of links on a specific topic.  For instance, there is a Foreign Travel Blog Carnival. The links should relate to foreign travel such as traveling tips, how to survive a plane crash and so forth.  In fact, the Blog-To Show event I participated in over the weekend could be defined as a blog carnival. Liz will be running her next event in January if you’re interested.