Just Vlog It World Tour

Jul 26, 2010 by cafebebemama

It’s Summer! There was supposed to be a Just Vlog It challenge this month. It’s nearly the end of this month! What happened you may ask?

Well, life happened! I became overwhelmed by the pressure to Just Vlog It and have crumbled. But thanks to two lovely bloggers named Victoria and Heather, I have resurrected the flame of Just Vlog It and am re-launching it for August with a new and exciting spin!

The pressure of hosting, running, creating and promoting has become a bit much so after discussion with Victoria and Heather, we came up with a new plan that will hopefully spread the love of VLOGGING and CREATIVITY and share the traffic as well. We will now embark on the “Just Vlog It World Tour”!

Each month a new vlogger will host the Just Vlog It challenge. They will launch their challenge on the first Monday of the month and give vloggers a theme (or not…however they choose to run it). Vloggers will then have 2 weeks to plan, script, record, edit and post their vlogs on their own blogs. On the third Monday of the month, the host will put up his or her own vlog entry on their blog and allow other vloggers to add their posts by MckLinky widget (similar to Tara Cain’s The Gallery).

We’re taking the COMPETITION out of Just Vlog It by providing a platform for people’s creativity which encourages rather than discourages. The Just Vlog It host is welcome to acknowlege brilliance in vlogging if they so choose but for the time being, there will be no WINNERS as in the past. Let’s make it fun, eh?

I will continue to organise and oversee Just Vlog It and take part in it myself. We have two vloggers to start the hosting:  Victoria at It’s a Small World After All Family will host the August Just Vlog It and Heather at Young and Younger will host the September Just Vlog It.  I hope this will encourage all of you to dust off your video cameras and dive in! Maybe we’ll even get a few of you who said you’ll NEVER Just Vlog It?? It just might be fun, after all!

As we move forward, we’ll retain one general guideline: do try your level best to keep your vlog entries to under 5 minutes. Consider how little time we all have and do your best to aim for 3-4 minutes with 5 minutes being the MAX. Otherwise, the world is your oyster. You don’t have to be the next James Cameron or Kathryn Bigelow (yes, I do love Hollywood)…just give us a glimpse into your life. We don’t care how perfect it looks or sounds!

And if you’d be so kind, we do have a Twitter identity- @justvlogit is where you can find us and #justvlogit can be used to promote your vlog entries or any vlogging you do! Victoria and Heather will be helping with the Twitter promotion in months to come.

If you are interested in hosting a Just Vlog It challenge, please leave your name in the comment field below and I’ll get back to you to assign you a month. It will be similar to hosting the BMB Carnivals except you won’t have to pfaff about with entries & emails…the vloggers will enter their entries themselves through the MckLinky Widget. I’ll help anyone hosting and will give you all the dates you’ll need. I look forward to getting some new hosts!

MONDAY 2 AUGUST will be Victoria’s launch for the August Just Vlog it and it will have the same theme as was issued for July (Summer and/or Blogging)! In the meantime, practise your vlogging technique and get ready to roll next Monday! See you at It’s a Small World After All Family then…now, ready, steady…JUST VLOG IT!