A while back, Joe over at Working at Home on the Internet included me in on a new meme that has been going round. It was started by Mack Collier of The Viral Garden as a means to get deserving bloggers up the Technorati charts .
Of course, because of my recent server meltdown (and some other issues) it has taken me a bit to get back to this. And in the mean time I’ve been tagged by folks such as Ben Yoskovitz, Starbucker, Robyn McMaster, Jodee Bock, and Kirsten Harrell.
My favorite tag in this meme so far came from Ellen Webber who told a great story along with the meme. I love snowmobiling and I can relate. (I mean not that I do much of that here in Savannah. But I grew up in snow country.)
Here’s what Mack said when he started this thing.
The idea is to create a meme built around giving link-love to the blogs that deserve it… What YOU can do is simply create a new post on your blog, but CUT AND PASTE the list I have below, and then ADD any blogs you feel aren’t getting their due either. It can be 1 blog, or a hundred(or none if you simply want to repost the same list), but the idea is, find those great blogs that, for whatever reason, you feel aren’t getting their due, link-wise.
So without further ado, here are the links with a few extra tasty tidbits of my own at the bottom. Enjoy!
Shotgun Marketing Blog
BrandSizzle
bizsolutionsplus
Customers Rock!
Being Peter Kim
Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman’s Blog About Surprise
Billions With Zero Knowledge
Working at Home on the Internet
MapleLeaf 2.0
darrenbarefoot.com
NewsPaperGrl
The Copywriting Maven
Hee-Haw Marketing
Scott Burkett’s Pothole on the Infobahn
Multi-Cult Classics
Logic + Emotion
Branding & Marketing
Popcorn n Roses
On Influence & Automation
Bulls**tobserver
Servant of Chaos
converstations
eSoup
Presentation Zen
Dmitry Linkov
aialone
John Wagner
Nick Rice
CKs Blog
Design Sojourn
Frozen Puck
The Sartorialist
Small Surfaces
Africa Unchained
Perspective
gDiapers
Marketing Nirvana
Bob Sutton
¡Hola! Oi! Hi!
Shut Up and Drink the Kool-Aid!
Women, Art, Life: Weaving It All Together
Community Guy
Social Media on the fly
Successful Blog
SuccessCREEations
Instigator Blog
The Future of the Web
QAQNA
You Already Know This Stuff
Talking Story
Make It Great!
Simplicity Mary’s Blog
Carpe Factum
Christine Kane
Ramblings from a Glass Half Full
Brain Based Biz
Home Business Wiz
Leading Questions
Web Metrics Guru
HolyMoma!
turned out
Purple Wren
OrbitNow!
TechBuzz
Chris, your story is soooooo good — what an inspiration to start another busy day! brillian…. Thanks. It was fun to find it here :-0
Ellen, I was just in Chicago a couple weeks ago and I was given an extra appreciation for my wife’s philosophy of Live Warm, Vacation Cold!
Riding a Skidoo through the arctic tundra sounds cooooolllddd!
This has been an incredibly fun exercise and has increased my blog’s visibility a ton! Thanks so much for participating.
Warmest Regards,
Doug
Doug, I’m really not much of a memer. But then now I’ve gone and joined in on two of them in two weeks! Go figure.
Chris, it is so cold that you cannot stay out for more than 5 minutes with skin exposed. Gas freezes where I was and dog teams are main transportation there. the Inuit people are fabulous and warm enough to make up for cold weather! I was there two years when I taught for McGill University. Great experience and fun to share the stories:-)
I believe it, Ellen. I grew up in very rural upstate New York and the guy down the (dirt) road from us raised sled dogs. He did the Iditarod a few times and paid me to take care of the dogs he had to leave behind in NY when he was racing. The stories he’d come back with would make me cold in July!
Thanks for the link! I linked you back.
Cheers!
Hi Chris, we already had a short discussion at Liz’s blog where I met you the other day. [We were at opposite ends of the spectrum about transfat.
] Thanks for the link here and I’ll be back to check things out on your site.
Chris, how do you get your picture into the slot. I look funny with a question mark!!
Hey Anne, You’re most welcome. That’s the way this thing works.
Robyn! I prefer to think of it not as us being on opposite ends, but as two people with different perspectives discussing an idea for better understanding all around.
(For those of you who missed it, we’re talking about a post over at Successful-Blog.)
I’m using MyBlogLog to generate the avatars. If you want a photo up instead of a question mark, you can go over there, open an account and upload a photo of your own!
I gotta say I’m a fan of their service. I’ve been using them for a while for some stats on my blog and this past summer they added a TON of features to enhance community, including the avitars.
I had a bit of a struggle when I first installed the “Recent Readers” thingy in the right side bar. I posted a little vent about my frustration and Eric from over there jumped right in, offered up some suggestions, and it’s all worked wonderfully ever since.
Best of all it’s free! And I really like free.
As you can see, Chris, I followed your directions and my picture now appears! Great stuff and thanks so much.
Thanks for spreading the Z-list!
Together we are power!
Hey Dmitry! Glad to support all us “little guys”. By the way you picked a beautiful theme for your blog. Good stuff.
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