It seems like forever-ago that we paused Blog of the Month. Sometimes a change is as good as a holiday so we hope that the return of the #BOM finds you refreshed and with new ideas. We know it's a bit counterintuitive to start something new on April 1st and let me assure you, we're not taking you for fools. On the contrary, this is no joke!

But first

When I last wrote one of these posts, the Silver Blogger's community had around 1,6k members and it now sits at more than 2k! Also since then, your delegations have increased and are now standing at more than 9,5 HP. Not only does this add to our voting power but we also make use of @hivediscomod to make sure that curation rewards are properly distributed to delegators.

So, from us to you:

And with special thanks to our admin and tech guru @mondoshawan who sets this sort of thing up for us.

If you would also like to delegate, there's a nifty table to help you at the end of this post. Alternatively, you can do it from your wallet.

April theme:

April is the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere and autumn in the south. Sometimes the change of seasons makes fools of all of us with weird weather and, where I live, four seasons in one day, and eight in a week!

As you guessed month's theme -

April Fools Day - 1 April

In some cultures, it's traditional to play jokes on one's friends and co-workers on April 1st. This month, we'd like you to recount your most memorable April Fools' day. You don't have to have been responsible for the prank. You may have been on the receiving end or you may just have been a witness. It doesn't matter. Just share the memories that made you smile!

To enter - the rules haven't changed

How to enter your post for the Blog of the Month (#BoM) - the criteria remain the same -

Posts must be in English and obviously centre on the week’s theme or topic.
Prose must be a minimum of 350 words. If it’s a photo or graphic essay, the photos must be your original work and preferably with some sort of back-story to the images.
The blog must be posted in/from our community
The account must be a subscribed Silver Blogger
Use #BoM - blog of the month - as your first tag.
Share the link to your entry in the comments of this post.

Consider following the #BoM tag so that you can easily find, upvote, and comment on other contributions.

Reminders:

The updated community description is a guide to content we welcome in the Silver Bloggers' Community. Folk who post content that doesn't jive, will be encouraged to find an alternative and more comfortable space in which to play.

and

To keep things fair, as we move into May, June, July... the same person (account) may not win twice in succession.

In summary, the previous edition's winner may enter, but the contribution, like those of the judges' panel, will not be eligible for a prize.

Deadlines and prizes

The contest closes at midnight GMT (also known as UTC) on Tuesday 16 April 2023 and the winners will be announced later the following week.

The winner gets

50% of the liquid rewards from the post announcing the winners. His/her account will be set as a 50% beneficiary
10 Hive sponsored by the Silver Bloggers community
10 Hive that @lizelle sponsors

The runners-up win, too

Thanks to our founder Silver-Blonde Lizzie, the runners-up will also receive 5 Hive each, and thanks to our LeoThreads account, @silverlions.leo, the runners-up will each receive 10 LEO tokens.

All prizes will be sent directly to the winners' wallets.

Would you like to sponsor a prize?

If you would like to sponsor a prize, please comment on this post and tag one of the team: @lizelle, @fionasfavourites, @coquicoin or @tengolotodo or ping us in our Discord channel.

Theme suggestions

If you have topic suggestions, please tag one of the team (@lizelle, @fionasfavourites, @coquicoin, @tengolotodo) and leave them in the comments?

Themes can be anything you like within the Silver Threads preferred for this community. Content creators will, of course, make of them what they will.

Last words...no pressure

If you're a bit like me, and not a herd animal and I don't do well being pressured - by topics or deadlines, that's ok. The #bom and #silverprompts are intended to nudge and inspire. So even if you don't get your post done by the cut-off time, we will still consider it for curation (no prizes, though).

Speaking of curation, if you're inspired by other things, we look forward to reading your posts. We manually curate and recommend good content for support from OCD. The team also regularly picks quality posts and showcases them - read the most recent selection here - and do keep an eye open for the next Silver Prompts Selection which will soon be published.

Also, let me remind you that our community is working in collaboration with LeoThreads with our special curation account, @silverlions.leo. So every time our Silver Bloggers community members create a thread and use the #silverbloggers tag in their thread, they can expect a visit from our @silverlions.leo account. And we look forward to seeing your threads.

Finally

We would love to get more eyes on this post and all community posts from - @hive-106316 - our Silver Bloggers account. This is why we make a point of reblogging your posts. Please do the same?

Also -

Please Follow and interact with @hive-106316. Assuming you are (and even if you're not) a subscribed Silver Blogger please follow our "mother account". That way you're sure not to miss any updates, challenges, curation posts as well as brilliant subscriber posts that we re-blog.