Ultimate Blog Party 2009 — Time to Party!!!
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Welcome to the Party!
The Ultimate Blog Party is about building online friendships.
It’s simple to join the fun and lots of ways you can get involved — from simply reading this post, to publishing your own party post on your blog and signing one of the Mr. Linky link lists near the end of this post.
So come on in and enjoy the party. We are Susan and Janice, the twin bloggers behind 5 Minutes for Mom. Since 2006, we’ve been blogging here and running two online toy stores — a pedal car store and a rocking horse store.
We each have two young children. Janice has a seven year old boy Jackson and a one and a half year old toddler Olivia. I have two little girls, Julia who is almost four and my toddler Sophia is two weeks younger than Janice’s girl Olivia.
We love our online life and the best part is our online friendships.
5 Minutes for Mom is really for everyone… not just moms.
We want to give a HUGE welcome to all women (and men too) whether or not you have children.
We use the term “Mom” to include everyone who loves children and is interested in the types of things that generally interest moms.
We especially want to include moms-to-be and women struggling to become moms.
In our recent poll of whether the Ultimate Blog Party should be for women only, the votes were quite split. It looks like the general consensus is we want to be welcoming but remember that the focus of the party is for bloggers to build genuine online friends and increase their readership in a fun, organic way.
So, we want YOU to party with us, whether you’re a mom, grandma, a dad or a single gal.
We reserve the right to remove any links from the list that are spammy, offensive or don’t fit the nature of our party.
How to party with us:
(Simplified version. Details here.)
- Read and comment on THIS post to be entered in the draw for PRIZES.
- If you have a blog, write a party post on your site, include a UBP 09 BUTTON, and tell us which prizes you want if you win.
- Add your blog url AND/OR your facebook link AND/OR your twitter link to the appropriate Mr. Linky below.
- Visit tons of blogs, facebook pages and follow new twitter friends from the Mr. Linkies. (To be eligible for prizes, we ask that you visit and comment on at least 20 blogs.)
Scroll down for two slideshows, a video and all the Links to Friends!
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Come On In…
We have so much stuff happening this week!!! A whole WEEK of fun!
As well as our traditional Mr. Linky style partying, we have two Twitter parties (a SiteWarming and a #GNO,) one Tweet Up in Orlando, and we’ve got LIVE STREAMING entertainment from three UBP In Real Life Parties (#ubpirl.)
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Time to Link Up and Start Blog Hopping
Pull up a chair, have a cupcake, a glass of wine and enjoy the blogosphere. And thanks to my gracious neighbor who brought over fabulous Yellow Tail Wine for our bash.
Whatever you like to eat or drink, just be merry and enjoy the party.
This year we have MULTIPLE Mr. Linkies.
Find ONE blog category that best suits you and link up.
You can ALSO add your facebook profile and your twitter profile to the bottom two linkies.
1. Family Friendly Blog
2. Not So Family Friendly Blog
3. Mompreneur (Includes Store Blogs and Business Blogs)
4. Dad Blogger
5. Facebook
6. Twitter
Thank you for partying with us! Keep blog hopping and making friends.
We’ve closed comments on this post as the entry deadline for prizes was Friday Mar, 27th, 2009.
1377 Comments
I never get invited to parties:( I tried to crash this one, but I’m too late. Darn, it. Now you’ve got my address so I’m totally gonna cry if I don’t get invited to the next one!
Just wanted to pop back in to say THANK YOU for such a FUN BLOG PARTY. Y’all were great hostesses and we sure appreciated all the hard work you put in to make this happen! I’m already looking forward to next year!
Gosh I spent all week doing the UBP and I just realized I haven’t left a comment here! Thanks for the great party!
I hope I have posted in the right place. Just in case, my top 3 choices are INTL56, INTL20, and INTL49. My remaining choices are (in order) 89, 58, 1, USC12, 21, 19, 91, USC47, 84, 44, USC10, 22, 5, 106, INTL1, INTL56, 16. Thanks for hosting such a spectacular event!
Can’t believe that the party’s over!
Still haven’t gotten time to do as much party hopping as I wanted to, so thanks for keeping the linkies up! 
great idea, thanks for the invite, and what a great blog site
I’m not sure if my last comment went through, so trying to leave another comment… this party rocks!
I have been sitting here drinkina a glass of Pinot Noir and having a blast partying!! Thank you for the chance to get to know so many bloggers.
So many blogs, so little time. Coupled with the script errors has been a little time consuming, but you gals throw a GREAT blog party! Thanks for hosting!
what fun the party was!
I’ll take any prize if I win! If it ends up being something I can’t use, I’ll pass it on to someone who can, because I love to give things away, too
Thanks for a fabulous UBP ‘09!!!
hey thanks for hosting the UBP this year it is my third year…i wish i would have gotten a better chance to know more bloggers but we have been so sick
Thanks again for hosting! I did have fun with the blogs I visited!
I am so new to blogging I don’t have a clue what I am doing and don’t really have the time to find out what I’m doing wrong. For Pete’s sake, I don’t even have a theme for my blog yet. Is that nuts or what.
At any rate I have a post up and maybe I can win something. I am definitely saving the blogger list because there are so many interesting blogs that I want to revisit.
Thanks for a fabulous UBP ‘09!!!
This Ultimate Blog Party has been amazing!! I am not a blogger, but I found out about the party through my daughter, who is an avid blogger! I have been commenting like crazy on tons of blogs…it is so much fun and so addicting too! I’m hoping by leaving this comment that I might be included in the prize drawings! My top picks would be the $50 gift card from Target (#19, 21, 22), the $25 gift card from Old Navy (118), and the $25 gift card from Shutterfly (99). I would love any of the following prizes too: 26, 91, 62, 58, 14, 11, 34, 44, 52, 83, 103, 109, 113, 130, 1. Thank you so much for all the hard work, time, and effort that went into hosting this blog party. I can’t wait until next year!!
YEah, I finally got my computer to work! Thank you!! I was hoping I would get to comment before time is up–but hey better late than never right?? Awesome week-I loved blog hopping and getting to know everyone!!
Thanks for the Great Party! I had a blast : )
Thank you so much to all who came by my blog and visited.. I really wish I would have had time to visit more myself. I was at the Relay for Life tonight and didn’t get a chance to. I had a blast and I hope more will come by and still take a look. I’m brand new so bare with me as I don’t know exactly what I’m doing.. lol
Many Blessings to all..
Martha (Spring, Tx)
Oh My Stars – what a week – I tried to visit 50 blogs per day this week . . . I wanted to get through the list of bloggers and on Mon I thought I could do it!!!! But each day I came here, there were SO MANY MORE blogs to see!!!!!!!! I did visit well over 300 NEW blogs!! I LOVED this and I am going to keep visiting all these new and fabulous women that I didn’t know were out there. I was so busy with UBP that I didn’t even get to join Wordless Wednesday this week!!!!
What a fun week!!!!!!!!!
Not sure if I remembered to comment!
Txs for an awesome UBP! It was my 1st time attending, but it was definitely not my last!
I wish I would have seen this sooner. Great idea!
Oh, dear~ I hope I’m not posting too late to be in the prize draw~ I read the “How To Win The Prize You Really Want” on the prize page, before the party, when I went about donating my two prizes, and it only mentioned bloggers posts, not comments~
I’ve been hopping around and visiting, and thought I’d check back tonight before I go to bed(later than I should)
Agggg…. I didn’t know I needed to comment here. (OOPS!)
Oh well, I’ll hope there is a little grace for a first-timer.
If not, maybe next time….
Okay so I thought I had already posted on here, but I can’t find me. Then again there are over 1400 posts. So I may be closer to the top.
Anywho.. I have loved being a part of the UBP’09. This was my first Blog Party and I’ve had a GREAT time. This was a GREAT idea 5M4M!!
So be sure to check out my Party back at my blog.
Groovewoman
can’t wait until next year.
glad i could participate. i can’t wait to keep reading the blogs.. next year i promise to be closer to the top
that's way too many blogs
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