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I had planned to launch into this new blogging venture of mine in special ops mode, but that's not working. I'll just have to come out and ask for suggestions and help right here on BlogHer. So here it goes: Are you a "mommyblogger" or "daddyblogger" (a blogger who focuses on parenting and family) who'd like more readers? You are! Then help yourself and help me as I get back in the "write" swing. Do the following meme post on your own blog, and tell me here at BlogHer so I can find you.
Me and Mine Meme 100 Directions:
- 1.) State the name of your blog, your real name or your online name, and link to your "about me" page.
2.) Say you want to be profiled on BlogHer as a family blogger and link back to this Me and Mine 100 original post, http://www.blogher.com/mommy-and-family-bloggers-promote-yourselves-me-and-mine-meme-100.
3.) Tell how long you've been blogging.
4.) Pass this meme on to three other bloggers that you think should be profiled/interviewed, and ask them to do the meme. (Kindly link to the bloggers you select.)
What's a meme? Look here for more information on memes.
What's up with the 100? Answer: I hope to do a hundred interviews by December 31, 2008. So, let me know about you or about a blogger you think is interesting. If you don't let me know about your blog or the bloggers you want to know about, then who will? Also, if you want to make sure I know you did the meme, then please leave a link to your "Me and Mine 100" meme on this post in the comments section.
WOW! I'm going out on a limb here. I've already wondered what if nobody wants to be interviewed or thinks enough of other bloggers to submit their names for interview. Naw, there's always somebody out there who will think of others if not of herself. I also wondered what if nobody does the meme? You know, some bloggers aren't fond of memes. Just look up "I hate memes" in a search engine. But there must be a few bloggers out there who still find memes entertaining.
Why am I doing this?
If you haven't seen my posts in a while, then it's not because you overlooked them. I haven't been blogging much lately. Despite being a professional writer, I haven't been writing much either. In fact, the last post I added to the Web was here at BlogHer a month ago and about dolls that teach social responsibility. I learned about them on television of all places!
The reality is that I haven't had the time in the last two months to surf the Net, much less read work by my fellow bloggers, and so, I feel out of touch. My lack of reading is not because I don't love to read my fellow bloggers but because I've been going through personal family evolution, you know, wading through challenges with aging parents, the angst of my teenager, the inclinations of my grown child, and the sometimes excessive dysfunction of extended family drama.
Nevertheless, the solution to getting back in the flow of blogging and writing came to me clearly last month. I saw interviewing other parenting/mommy bloggers as a win-win proposition in the blogosphere for me. I'll get to know other family and parenting bloggers better while helping them publicize their parenting/family blogs. The idea struck me as a good way to find out who's new and how veterans remain successful and energized. But, like I said, I haven't had time.
As mentioned, I thought I'd go about this in a quiet way, slowly contacting mommy and family bloggers to be interviewed, but I realized that if I do that, I'll never get to it. Furthermore, if I do it by my surfing alone then who I interview may be too influenced by my personal sphere of knowledge. In other words, I might succumb to interviewing only more well-known bloggers. Where's the fun in that?
I started checking out a few potential bloggers for interview today, however, and came across the blog Mommin' It Up! Ironically, what I saw was that one of its owners, Jenny, had already done at least once what I plan to do
