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Blogging, Tagging, and Memes

October 23, 2007 | Filed Under Blogging, Social Networking 

When you’re blogging…even for business…you will occasionally cross the line into the personal. But it’s your choice how personal you want to get. (Your branding plays a part in this!)

Memes are fun little questionnaires, and when someone fills one out they have to pick three people to fill them out as well. That’s called tagging…and the people who are picked have been “tagged” - make sense?

Well this all came out because Tammy Munson over at New Media VA tagged me for a Meme. This gives me exposure on her blog, because she has my name with a link back to my page…and when I talk about her I’ll link back to her webpage…giving her a link and exposure on my blog.

It’s a very non-intrusive way to do the whole “you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” thing.

The subject of this Meme is “Seven things you may not know about me”

So here goes:

1. My favorite sound is the one a 2400 baud modem makes.
2. I’ve been blogging since November 10th, 1999.
3. I LOVE football (Go Bears!)
4. My local microbrewery was named Best Small Brewpub at the Great American Beer Festival.
5. I was raised by my great-grandmother.
6. I love planes. I especially love take-offs and landings when I’m on a plane.
7. My favorite color is pink.

The reason Memes are great is that when you find one on a blog where you know the author, if you then end up at a conference or networking event together…you have something to talk about beyond the weather and the food. This is valuable information that can enable you to make a personal connection with someone much sooner, and the faster you can make that connection, the more likely they are to remember your name when they have a need for your services (or are looking for someone to invite to the Bears game with an extra ticket.)

This is how friends are made.

I’d like to tag:
Kelly McCausey
Tishia Lee
Patty Dost

Now you wait a few…and they should have their responses up. (That’s how it works in a perfect world. You will find that people won’t always post your Meme…but that’s okay…)

Edited to add: And sometimes you’ll have smarty-pants comments that people have already been tagged and you’re a little too late….so you add someone that you should have thought of in the first place and should IN NO WAY feel like a second choice. In my case, that awesome person is:
LaTara Ham-Ying of Vegan Family Living

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