Author: Monica McConkey

Monica, mom of 5, is usually blogging about Catholic crafts and family traditions at Equipping Catholic Families. She is the author of A Treasure Chest of Traditions for Catholic Families, Hand in Hand with Jesus (a Faith Journal through the Sacraments) and a series of paper Cathletics Craft Kits™ and Cathletics™ quizzing cards to help teach the Catholic Faith. The Catholic teaching tools and gifts are available through Arma Dei, the Catholic family publishing company founded with her husband Bill. Monica is also one of the founders of the Catholic Bloggers Network, a venue to link and promote Catholic blogs.

Joy Alive, Filling My Prayer Closet, The Cloistered Heart, Rose’s Supposes and The Breadbox Letters

Posted: by Monica McConkey
Welcome to the
2013 Catholic Blogger Link-Up Blitz.
Announcing the Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers
for September 2013!

In the category of…

Readings and Reflections,
the Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers are:
Joy Alive in our Hearts for the post
Six Ways to Encounter Jesus in the Mass
Filling My Prayer Closet for the post
RCIA Pearls: Feeling God and Explaining Faith

Catechism and Apologetics,
the Big Clicks Catholic Blogger is
The Cloistered Heart for the post
Unearthing Treasure
 
Liturgical Calendar Crafts and Homeschooling,
the Big Clicks Catholic Blogger is:
Rose’s Supposes for the post
Mary’s Birthday Pancakes

Catholic Family Journal and Random Ramblings,
the Big Clicks Catholic Blogger is
The Breadbox Letters for the post
The Prayer, The Answer, The Plane

Spread the word!! Let your friends know about these popular posts on the Catholic Bloggers Network
and help promote Catholic Bloggers!

The new Monthly Round-Up for OCTOBER will be
UP and RUNNING on October 1st!
Make sure that you add your posts and visit often!!
You can also always revisit our Archives!

…You could also sign up to our Catholic Bloggers Mailing List to receive the INFREQUENT Catholic Bloggers Network News Flash for current events, link-ups and features at Catholic Bloggers Network.


There is STILL TIME to join the MEET and GREET
Catholic Bloggers Directory!
Fill out the MEET and GREET form before we finish compiling it…for awesome promotion of your Catholic blog and media links!

Tell your subscribers about the Catholic Bloggers Network and help us increase traffic and promote all these awesome blogs! We have 577 awesome Catholic blogs linked up so far!





Monica is a wife, Mom of 5+ kids, a designer, an architecture school survivor, an author and a crafter who thinks it’s cool to be Catholic! Check out the Arma Dei Shoppe for solid Catholic, fun teaching tools and gifts to celebrate and teach the Catholic Faith and subscribe to Equipping Catholic Families for family-building and Faith-centered crafts!

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Something NEW at the Catholic Bloggers Network!

Posted: by Monica McConkey
Hey, who wants this Catholic Bloggers Network Facebook Group
to ROCK?!?

The Admins are talking ..and looking for ways to encourage
more sharing and liking and commenting and support and subscribers for the
Catholic Bloggers Network and the blogs of all its’ members. Although many of
us share posts on FB…there isn’t enough sharing of other people’s posts,
promoting fellow Catholic Bloggers and happy commenting.
Show-you-appreciate-and-reciprocate!

Are you up for it?
1. Do you want to be part of another Follow Frenzy: a link-up of awesome posts
along with a commitment to visit the other linked up posts and leave meaningful
comments. The last one was a big success!

2. Do you want to be part of the Blog Critique Co-op: do you want to be on the
panel to critique Catholic blogs? Catholic Bloggers have expressed an interest
in having their blogs critiqued…and as the “critique-er” your bio
and a link to your blog would appear. Open for suggestions as to how many
critique-ers should be assigned to each blog critique?

3. Do you want to be a Catholic Bloggers Network Facebook Group Facilitator: do you want to be part of
the elite group of moderators, committed to active involvement in this group,
moderating as necessary, commenting regularly and looking for new ways to
increase participation and effectiveness of promotion of Catholic Bloggers?

4. Do you want to be a Catholic Bloggers Network Website Facilitator.
Be assigned to a particular page or feature at www.CatholicBloggersNetwork,
answering comments and looking for ways to help the Catholic Bloggers Network
website ROCK.

5. Do you have special technical expertise in blogging? Would
you consider fielding technical questions about wordpress, blogger, SEO, social
media, widgets, gadgets, plugins, ETC.?!? Again, as a Catholic Bloggers Tech
Consultant, your bio and a link to your blog would appear.

6. Would you like to submit a proposal for a Catholic Homeschooling Article? Submit your article
for review and potential publishing in a prominent Homeschooling Resource!
Want to get involved?

Please Fill Out The Catholic Bloggers Network Rocks! Form















Do you have other ideas for things YOU would like to see at
the Catholic Bloggers Network?

A Bulletin Board to trade or coordinate Guest Posts?
The Official Catholic Bloggers Network Directory published?
Access and Magnified Promotion of the Catholic Resource
Directory?
More promotion of Catholic Etsy Shops, Catholic Family
Businesses and Apostolates?
Do you have suggestions to entice Catholic Bloggers 
to encourage and
promote fellow Catholic Bloggers!?

Have you seen cool features, events and services on other
big blogs…that you’d like us to tackle on our own Catholic Bloggers Network…either through our
Catholic Bloggers Network website, 
our Catholic Bloggers Network FacebookGroup
or Catholic Bloggers Network Facebook Page?
Tell us about it! 
Please Fill Out
The Catholic Bloggers Network Rocks! Form

If you are interested in making the Catholic Bloggers
Network 
an awesome venue to promote Catholic blogs
OR
If you have ideas about Events, Features or Services 
that
you would like to see at the Catholic Bloggers Network
OR
If you are willing to participate MORE, discover awesome
Catholic Blogs and GET NEW SUBSCRIBERS on your CATHOLIC BLOG…

Joy Alive in our Hearts, Hand-Maid with Love, Rose’s Supposes and Designs by Birgit

Posted: by Monica McConkey

Welcome to the
2013 Catholic Blogger Link-Up Blitz.
Announcing the Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers
for August 2013!

In the category of…

Readings and Reflections,
the Big Clicks Catholic Blogger is:
Joy Alive in our Hearts for the post
My Spirit-filled Idiolect and the Dead Battery

Catechism and Apologetics,
the Big Clicks Catholic Blogger is
Hand-made with Love for the post
Mater Eucharistiae
 
Liturgical Calendar Crafts and Homeschooling,
the Big Clicks Catholic Blogger are:
Rose’s Supposes for the post
Joking Around with St Jane Frances de Chantal

Catholic Family Journal and Random Ramblings,
the Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers are
Designs by Birgit for the post
Is Someone You Love Poison for Your Soul?

Spread the word!! Let your friends know about these popular posts on the Catholic Bloggers Network
and help promote Catholic Bloggers!

The new Monthly Round-Up for SEPTEMBER will be
UP and RUNNING on September 1st!
Make sure that you add your posts and visit often!!
You can also always revisit our Archives!

…You could also sign up to our Catholic Bloggers Mailing List to receive the INFREQUENT Catholic Bloggers Network News Flash for current events, link-ups and features at Catholic Bloggers Network.


There is STILL TIME to join the MEET and GREET
Catholic Bloggers Directory!
Fill out the MEET and GREET form before we finish compiling it…for awesome promotion of your Catholic blog and media links!

Tell your subscribers about the Catholic Bloggers Network and help us increase traffic and promote all these awesome blogs! We have 551 awesome Catholic blogs linked up so far!





Monica is a wife, Mom of 5+ kids, a designer, an architecture school survivor, an author and a crafter who thinks it’s cool to be Catholic! Check out the Arma Dei Shoppe for solid Catholic, fun teaching tools and gifts to celebrate and teach the Catholic Faith and subscribe to Equipping Catholic Families for family-building and Faith-centered crafts!

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BIG LAUNCH: the Catholic Bloggers Collective!

Posted: by Monica McConkey

Launching August 25, this group of Catholic Bloggers will be sharing Catholic blog reflections, recipes and tutorials on a particular theme. This Sunday…watch for posts about Mary in honor of her 2 big  Feast Days in August from:

Nancy
from www.dosmallthingswithlove.com

Jennifer from http://www.catholicinspired.com
Monica from  http://www.equippingcatholicfamilies.com and  http://www.iblogjesus.com
Melody from http://mamaslittleditty.blogspot.com/
Susanna from http://livingwithladyphilosophy.blogspot.com
Ginny from http://randomactsofmomness.com/

Leave a comment if you’re interested in joining the Catholic Bloggers Collective!

Welcome!

Posted: by Monica McConkey
Welcome to The Catholic Bloggers Network!

Posted by Monica McConkey of Equipping Catholic Families,
attending the Catholic Writer’s Guild Live!
Come and visit our booth 210-212 if you are also attending this event! I’d love to meet you!

Please link your blog here at our Community Page

Please add your Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest profiles/handles here at our
Catholic Bloggers Social Media Page

Submit links to your best Catholic posts in any of these four categories here at our
Catholic Bloggers Monthly Link-Up Blitz

“Like” our Catholic Bloggers Network Facebook page
…and join our Catholic Bloggers Network Facebook group! ( request an invite; we’ll accept you!)

This is the best of social media….getting acquainted with other Catholics and helping each other promote our Catholic blogs!

Leave a comment below! Are you attending the Catholic Writers Guild Conference session tomorrow about Catholic Blogging? See you there!

Enter Under My Roof, Joe Catholic, I Blog Jesus, Stuart’s Study, Equipping Catholic Families, Sue Elvis Writes and 8 Kids and a Business

Posted: by Monica McConkey

Welcome to the
2013 Catholic Blogger Link-Up Blitz.
Announcing the Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers
for July 2013!

This month…the Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers Awards
go to the Blog Links receiving the most VOTES!

Our VOTING response…wasn’t exactly overwhelming…
please leave a comment:
should we determine winners by VOTES or CLICKS next month?

In the category of…

Readings and Reflections,
the Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers are:
Enter Under My Roof for the post
Hot Summer Nights

Joe Catholic for the post
St Mary Magdalene

I Blog Jesus for the post
The Prompt Me to Pray Prayer

Catechism and Apologetics,
the Big Clicks Catholic Blogger is
Stuart’s Study for the post
Angelico’s Press: The Cross and the Beatitudes
 
Liturgical Calendar Crafts and Homeschooling,
the Big Clicks Catholic Blogger are:
Equipping Catholic Families for the post
How to Paint A Saint Tutorial

Catholic Family Journal and Random Ramblings,
the Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers are
Sue Elvis Writes for the post
The Elvis Presley Connection
8 Kids and a Business for the post
Helping our Children Discern their Vocations

Spread the word!! Let your friends know about these popular posts on the Catholic Bloggers Network
and help promote Catholic Bloggers!

The new Monthly Round-Up for AUGUST will be
UP and RUNNING on August 1st!
Make sure that you add your posts and visit often!!
You can also always revisit our Archives!

…You could also sign up to our Catholic Bloggers Mailing List to receive the INFREQUENT Catholic Bloggers Network News Flash for current events, link-ups and features at Catholic Bloggers Network.


There is STILL TIME to join the MEET and GREET
Catholic Bloggers Directory!
Fill out the MEET and GREET form before we finish compiling it…for awesome promotion of your Catholic blog and media links!

Tell your subscribers about the Catholic Bloggers Network and help us increase traffic and promote all these awesome blogs! We have 532 awesome Catholic blogs linked up so far!





Monica is a wife, Mom of 5+ kids, a designer, an architecture school survivor, an author and a crafter who thinks it’s cool to be Catholic! Check out the Arma Dei Shoppe for solid Catholic, fun teaching tools and gifts to celebrate and teach the Catholic Faith and subscribe to Equipping Catholic Families for family-building and Faith-centered crafts!

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You have a VOTE in the Big Clicks Awards!

Posted: by Monica McConkey
We have changed things up a bit this month. 
 
 
NOW, you can VOTE on your FAVORITE Blog Posts for the MONTH
at the Catholic Bloggers Link-Up Blitz 
You may or may not be able to vote for your own (I’m still trying to work that out)
but you get TWO VOTES in each of the FOUR CATEGORIES:
 
Readings and Reflections
Catechism and Apologetics
Homeschooling and the Liturgical Calendar
Catholic Family Journal

 
Please participate by adding your favorite posts for the month!
Please support your fellow Catholic Bloggers by visiting the links and voting for your favorites.
Tell your friends to visit the Catholic Bloggers Link-Up Blitz.
They can vote too!
 
Your participation… visiting blogs, commenting and voting will help us to determine the
usefulness of the Catholic Bloggers Link-Up Blitz
…and will impact our decision to continue it!
 

Catholic Bloggers Link-Up Blitz is OPEN for JULY!

Posted: by Monica McConkey

 
We are trying something NEW this month!
We now have VOTING CAPABILITY! 
Please visit the Link-Up Blitz OFTEN and visit as many of the linked-up posts as possible.  You will be able to VOTE for your two favorite posts IN EACH CATEGORY during the last 6 days of the month (beginning July 26).
Feel free to vote for your own linked post once…but please also vote for at least one other blogger’s post in each category!
Please make your choice based on actual VISITS to other blogs. Thanks!
 
Depending on the response we get…this VOTING will be THE MAIN FACTOR in the
BIG CLICKS BLOGGER AWARDS announced on July 31st.
 
Don’t forget that you always have access to our ARCHIVES:
 
Happy Catholic Blogging!

Living Faith on a High Wire, Stories of an Unschooling Family, Simple Catholic Living, Catholic Inspired, Learning Mass and The Cloistered Heart: Big Clicks Winners!

Posted: by Monica McConkey

Welcome to the
2013 Catholic Blogger Link-Up Blitz.
Announcing the Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers
for June 2013!
In the category of…

Readings and Reflections,
the Big Clicks Catholic Blogger is:
The Cloistered Heart for the post
An Abyss of All Good

Catechism and Apologetics,
the Big Clicks Catholic Blogger is
Learning Mass for the post
Missing Mass
 
Liturgical Calendar Crafts and Homeschooling,
the Big Clicks Catholic Blogger are:
Catholic Inspired for the post
Devotion to the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts and
Simple Catholic Living for the post
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Catholic Family Journal and Random Ramblings,
the Big Clicks Catholic Bloggers are
Living Faith on a High Wire for the post
Celebrating 50 Years of Marriage and Loving Life
and Stories of an Unschooling Family for the post
Getting Kids to Help with Chores

Spread the word!! Let your friends know about these popular posts on the Catholic Bloggers Network
and help promote Catholic Bloggers!

The new Monthly Round-Up for JULY will be
UP and RUNNING on July 1st!
Make sure that you add your posts and visit often!!
You can also always revisit our Archives!

…You could also sign up to our Catholic Bloggers Mailing List to receive the INFREQUENT Catholic Bloggers Network News Flash for current events, link-ups and features at Catholic Bloggers Network.


There is STILL TIME to join the MEET and GREET
Catholic Bloggers Directory!
Fill out the MEET and GREET form before we finish compiling it…for awesome promotion of your Catholic blog and media links!

Tell your subscribers about the Catholic Bloggers Network and help us increase traffic and promote all these awesome blogs! We have 517 awesome Catholic blogs linked up so far!





Monica is a wife, Mom of 5+ kids, a designer, an architecture school survivor, an author and a crafter who thinks it’s cool to be Catholic! Check out the Arma Dei Shoppe for solid Catholic, fun teaching tools and gifts to celebrate and teach the Catholic Faith and subscribe to Equipping Catholic Families for family-building and Faith-centered crafts!

Do you want do use inlinkz thumbnail link-ups on your blog too?