Jacketflap Blogging Resources
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Jacketflap is a community where children’s literature writers, illustrators, librarians, agents, editors, publicists, and publishers can gather and discuss myriad aspects/resources related to children’s literature. Jacketflap has some great offerings such as the searchable database and the members’ bookshelves (read more about Jacketflap’s resources on the About Us page).
More recently, Jacketflap has developed a couple of neat tools for kidlitosphere bloggers and blog readers (I first became familiar with these resources through the post at Book Bud (thanks much)). Since these are cool tools with high utility, I want to briefly highlight the blog portal and the Cybils widget…
About the Jacketflap megablog portal:
The Jacketflap megablog portal collocates the most recent posts from all the kidlitosphere blogs that are currently indexed by the Jacketflap Blog Reader (over 580 as of this posting). It’s a helpful resource for keeping up with keeping up (not to mention the entertainment factor). Jacketflap provides the following navigation tips:
Click the dates in the calendar on the left to view blog posts from a particular date. Scroll down through the list of Recent Posts in the left column and click on a post title that sounds interesting. Click a tag in the right column to view posts about that topic. You can view all posts from a specific blog by clicking the Blog name in the right column, or you can click a “More Posts from this Blog” link in any individual post.
About the customizable Cybils widget:
The Cybils Widget displays a different Cybils 2007 nominee every time it loads on your website. There are links where your site visitors can visit the Cybils website and to buy the nominated book on Amazon or a local bookstore (via Booksense).
I included the widget in this post, but I’ve also placed it on my blog’s right sidebar (at least for the time being).
