BlogTag – You’re It
I realised recently that the London Bloggers Meetup community has become really quite large. In fact at the last count there are 574 of us! That’s an awful lot of bloggers and it’s great that we are all coming together either online of offline with one thing in common, blogging.
However, it got me to thinking how few of your blogs I’ve actually read. I don’t know whether this is a time issue, or whether I just keep reading the same blogs all the time, or if it’s because there are just so many of us in the community that I haven’t got around to it yet. In reality it’s probably a mixture of all of the above.
In any case, one thing’s for sure, I want to get to know everyone’s blogs a little better and to become a little better connected both on and off line. So what better way than to do that than with a game of blog tag. Thanks by the way to Farhan for this fantastic idea!
How does it work.
1. I’m going to choose three blogs from the members list, which I’ll read and write a short intro blog post about – see below.
2. I will include a link / trackback to each blog and tag my post with each blog / blogger’s name
3. I will also tag my post with ‘LBM BlogTag’
4. When you spot you have been tagged, you have to write about three other LBM member blogs (click for members list) that have not already been written about and so on…
5. You will also need to include a trackback to this post to help me monitor when everyone’s blog has been tagged
If everyone participates, we should cover all 574 members blogs (well, those who have included a blog in their profile in any case) within a few weeks..
So here goes, the three blogs to be tagged are:
Thanks Farhan for this great idea. When I found your blog I realised two things very quickly:
1. I hadn’t been there before
2. You write about social communities so I shouldn’t be at all surprised you had a great idea like this
I hope this little project will help to rebalance your social currency, giving you a little back, filling up that depleted account and building your reservoir of Twollars. I like some of your predictions for the year ahead, which some might say are already becoming true. Is Facebook still struggling to show value to its advertisers, is Twitter taking over, a yes on both counts I believe. Will FriendFeed and other platforms designed to aggregate and organise your social media kick-off, I strongly hope so. Will 2009 be the year of the “Social Browser” let’s wait and see.
I will definitely be reading Farhan’s blog again, not only because he writes about everything in such well thought out detail, but I am sure there are a lot of ideas I can glean from Farhan’s writing to help me with the various community building projects I am involved in. Thanks Farhan.
Consider yourself tagged!
Epicurienne probably needs very little introduction to regular LBM’ers. She often pops down to our monthly socials and more importantly she frequently wins a prize. It started with a trip to Amsterdam for the Blog08 event, but then she went on to win a trip in the Stella Artois airship and more recently a T-Shirt from the Fashion Targets Breast Cancer folks. I have to say, the second I pulled Epicurienne’s name out of the hat for the T-Shirt I just couldn’t believe my eyes, how could she win again! The suggestion from her brother that there might be something going on probably expresses the shock in more clarity – just to clarify, there isn’t anything going on.. : – ). Well, there probably couldn’t be a nicer winner, so it seems fair play to me.
Epicirienne’s blog is actually a pretty entertaining read. It’s generally about life, travel , food, fashion and all sorts to be honest. But really, cold spaghetti, that truly is a “Snack of Shame”!
Chris Applegate
Now on to my third blog and I’ve plumped for the interesting world of “marketing wonk” Chris Applegate. Chris has been around LBM for a while and much to my delight brought his client Berocca along last year with a few free samples and a host of free beers. I’ve got to say I’m not sure I’ll be enjoying a Guinness with Berocca again, but a cocktail perhaps worth investigating Mr Diageo – think of the health benefits of a Guinness packed full of life giving vitamins.
In any case, Chris’ blog qwghlm is another interesting read, particularly if you like controversial and highly opinionated political comment – see latest post about a petition for Gordon Brown to resign, which, if you’ve signed makes you a “fucking idiot”, at leats in Chris’ eyes. Chris was behind the even more controversial video of Hitler’s membership of BNP when the BNP lost its membership database last year. If you haven’t see it, it is very funny.
So Chris, consider yourself tagged too. Who will you choose to tag next..?
Happy BlogTagging folks!
- Getting to know you…London Bloggers’ Meetup Blogtag « Epicurienne
- London Bloggers: Blog tag « Timinator
- London Bloggers: Blog Tag « The Seldom Seen Kid
- Timinator
Andy – hey! Thanks for tagging me. What a great idea to get to know each other’s blogs. I only just realised I’d been tagged today. Woops! Will try and post my response soon. Re: prizes, like I said the last time I saw you, I never used to win anything until I joined LBM. I think it’s the universe’s response to the fact that I love blogging and bloggers and the blogosphere and everything bloggy. Positive energy, dude!
Love the LBM group, but any plans to host anything on other days of the week at all?
Hi Phil,
Generally we aim for the last Tuesday of the month, but this sometimes moves around. The summer party for LBM will probably be on a Thursday in July, more details coming soon!
Cheers,
Andy