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Why have a multilingual blog

Claire had a busy week, and we didn’t manage to visit all our friends because she monopolized the computer. We evoked her lack of time this week, and we again heard the following remarks, more or less directly :
– This blog takes you a great deal of time, and that yield you nothing, why do you do it ?
– Why to tire you to translate your articles ? It would be simpler to mew just in French, no ?
– You do things the hard way for not much…
– Don’t you mind to make mistakes in articles which everybody can see ?

Well, yes, a blog takes time, and a multilingual blog even more. And no, we don’t mind to make language mistakes.

We have a blog because we like communicating and sharing. We share a few of us and a little of our knowledge on the everyday life with cats. We also share our crushes for certain products intended for humans or for cats.

We have a multilingual blog because we adore languages, and because we like exchanging with cats of other horizons. We translate ourself our articles. We are not tall travelers, but the knowledge of a language is a first approach of other one and his culture. By visiting blogs of various countries, we perceived differences of culture, sensibility, a vision of cat and an approach of blogging very varied. We even know specific words relative to cats in each language, but those are untranslatable in the others ! And it’s fascinating. We don’t hide that German, English, and Italian are not our mother tongues, and we don’t mind that you correct friendly our most unrefined errors, as when we use a word instead of an other one for example.

This additional effort is widely rewarded by the friendly relations we were able to develop in different parts of the world. Even thousands of kilometers away, several of these relations turned into real friendship : it’s what brought for example Claire, big non-traveler, to jump without hesitating in a plane to England to meet Mr Bumpy‘s mom who was arriving from Australia. It’s only a question of time so that she lands at a BlogPaws conference !

And you, why do you have a blog ?

How to fire the best of BlogPaws Conference

… if you cannot go there !

BlogPaws is an English-speaking platform for pet lovers wich goals are to gather them, to inform them, to educate them in the use of the social media, to professionalize for those who wish it, and to put them in touch with the brands which they buy.

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BlogPaws Conference takes place once a year in the United States. This unique conference allows bloggers (sometimes accompanied with their favorite animal), brands of products for animals, photographers, writers, journalists, experts in marketing, sponsors, experts in social networks, veterinarians, pet care organizations, … to meet. Each helps the other one to develop his blog, to earn money with it, to get organized better, to have one better design, to promote his product, to support his cause, or little quite at the same time !

Claire would like to go, but there for the moment, she cannot. That’s the way it is. She knows that she will go once in her life, but she doesn’t just know when. So, what’s to be done ?

You can complain and moan : every time you see or every time you hear about BlogPaws Conference, let well understand how much you are to be pitied not to be able to go there, and complain abundantly. If you’re good at thisl, you will lose a large part of your subscribers and of your contacts in record time.
You can do nothing : you are dying to participate in the conference, but as it’s not possible, you never evoke this envy or a temporary regret, and you do just like that. Guaranteed frustration.
You can use all that BlogPaws proposes as various resources to continue to learn, to inform yourself, and to stay in the race : that’s what Claire tries to do since she’s a member of the community.

What resources ? There are so much… Here is an overview :

the blog : articles are always source of reflection or inspiration
the professional bloggers network
the gains opportunities by running campaigns for brands of pet food or pet articles (or their owner)
the active, great community : direct contact between bloggers, professionals and non-professionals, is incredibly easy and friendly
the newsgroups about fascinating subjects
the activities on various social networks : sharing on : sharing on Facebook, chat on Twitter, hangouts on Google+
the YouTube channel on which you can watch and watch again chosen moments of the previous conferences and the past hangouts

And it’s all year long !

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Concatulations to the finalists

That’s it, the finalists for the Nose-To-Nose Awards were announced. We’re not a member of it, but we’re happy to see that several of our favourite bloggers were chosen in various categories :

Chronicles of Zee and Zoey – we like the quality of her texts and her photos
Cat in the Fridge – we like her active commitment for needy cats and her videos
Glogirly – we like her sense of humor, the exceptional quality of her photos, her commitment for needy cats, and her generosity
Island Cats – we like her sense of humor, her photos, and her product reviews
Cat Chat with Caren and Cody – we like her enthusiasm, her sense of humor, her photos, and her commitment for needy cats
Pawsitively Pets – we like her unconditional love for all kinds of animals and the quality of the information which we find on her blog

The complete list of the finalists is here. It’s the opportunity to discover blogs which we don’t still know !