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Kennesaw, GA, October 22, 2008–From Oct. 26 through Nov. 1, the Bathroom Blogfest regroups for the third year to focus on the customer experience. During Bathroom Blogfest ’08 – Cleaning Up Forgotten Spaces Around Us, the Women of Wear-Dated will join women bloggers in the U.S., Canada and the UK to share observations about the effect of bathrooms and other forgotten spaces on the customer experience.

“We are excited about involving both The Carpetology Blog and Flooring The Consumer in Bathroom Blogfest 2008,” says Christine Whittemore, director, in-store innovation, Wear-Dated carpet fiber. “This offers us the opportunity to highlight great carpet-related customer experience examples for readers of The Carpetology Blog, and business relevant examples in Flooring The Consumer.”

Also participating in the 2008 Bathroom Blogfest are Shannon Bilby from WFCA’s Floor Talk! and Lisbeth Calandrino with her recently launched Lisbeth Calandrino blog. They join experts in marketing, customer service, customer experience, library sciences, life and bathrooms, who will post at least once during the Bathroom Blogfest and include the tag “#ladiesrooms08” to their posts, photos, videos and tweets.

The Bathroom Blogfest began in 2006 as the brainchild of Stephanie Weaver, Experienceology author and consultant, and Susan Abbott, a business consultant and consumer researcher in Toronto. Last year’s Blogfest featured posts on such diverse topics as Disney Land, family-owned businesses, bus stations and better automatic flushers. This year, the theme has been expanded to include all forgotten spaces, including entry ways, changing rooms, or any spaces that affect the customer experience but aren’t accorded the attention they deserve.

Participating bloggers for the Bathroom Blogfest ’08 include:

Susan Abbott at Customer Experience Crossroads http://www.customercrossroads.com ;

Katia Adams at Transcultural Marketing http://transcultural.wordpress.com;

Shannon Bilby at Floor Talk! http://floortalk.wfca.org/ ;

Laurence Borel at Blog Till You Drop http://blogtillyoudrop.wordpress.com;

Jo Brown and the blogging team at Kohler Talk http://www.us.kohler.com/mykohler/blog.jsp

Lisbeth Calandrino at Lisbeth Calandrino http://lisbethcalandrino.typepad.com/liz_biz_buzz/

Sara Cantor at The Curious Shopper http://curiousshopper.blogspot.com

Becky Carroll at Customers Rock! http://www.customersrock.net;

Katie Clark at Practical Katie http://practicalkatie.blogspot.com/;

Iris Shreve Garrott at Circulating http://circulating.wordpress.com/;

Ann Handley at Annarchy http://www.annhandley.com;

Marianna Hayes at Results Revolution http://www.resultsrevolution.com

Elizabeth Hise and C.B. Whittemore at The Carpetology Blog http://carpetology.blogspot.com;

Maria Palma at Customers Are Always http://www.CustomersAreAlways.com

Sandra Renshaw at Purple Wren http://www.purplewren.com/;

Kate Rutter at Adaptive Path http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/ ;

Claudia Schiepers at Life and its little pleasures http://claudiaschiepers.typepad.com;

Carolyn Townes at Becoming a Woman of Purpose http://spiritwomen.blogpsot.com;

Stephanie Weaver at Experienceology http://experienceology.blogspot.com;

C.B. Whittemore at Flooring The Consumer http://flooringtheconsumer.blogspot.com;

During Bathroom Blogfest 2008, look for photos and posts with the tags “#ladiesrooms08” on flickr, del.icio.us, Technorati, Twitter and Google and monitor this conversation about the customer experience, bathrooms and other forgotten spaces around us.