Well, I guess I am since I was recently nominated by Darrell over at Alpha-Trilogy for the Power of Schmooze award.
Not sure why that is, as I’m really not all that active… but I do enjoy moving and chatting through the community. However, as part of the award you’re supposed to nominate five more bloggers who you think embodies the “Power of Schmooze” by posting comments and staying active on all the other blogs. As I look through the previous posts on that topic, I realize that the folks I’d nominate are already represented.
There are very obvious choices like Rex, over at the Deer Camp Blog. Rex is a regular ambassador of the blogosphere, welcoming and making friends with folks from all over the place… heck, who’d have thought there would be a blog for crossbow hunters from Peru? Or Rex’s friend, KeesKennis from Africa (he’s actually got a very cool site)… how does he meet these people? He schmoozes!
And there’s Jon Bryan, who has a wonderful site at Outdoor Odyssey… even if, for the life of me, I can’t seem to post a comment on his site. Maybe it’s my security settings or something, I dunno.
Others include Kristine from Gunslinger. Kristine is a marketing person, so getting out and getting know everyone is her job… but she does it well and seems to really enjoy it. I can hardly go to a blog’s comments section and not see a post or two with her name by it. In some circles, it may not be polite to say, “she gets around,” but I think it’s OK in the blogosphere, since the implication is totally different.
There are more, but again, they’ve all been nominated already. It seems somehow incestuous of me to continue to recirculate the same list of blogs.
Anyway, when I first saw this I took it as another meme… which is something I don’t generally participate in. I mean, it’s really not much different than a chain letter…
Read this and pass it on to five of your friends or you will die/have bad luck/lose all your hair/lose all your money/be eaten by aliens within five days.
But it makes me think about the community here… the outdoors bloggers that is… and how we seem to be growing and organizing. Whether it’s with the Outdoor Bloggers’ Summit, or simply by adding one another to our blogrolls, we’re linking up people and ideas and that’s a pretty cool thing.
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Phillip it is about community. I’m not one to pass on random memes either but, in this case it reinforced something that I think is really important, which is supporting each other.
As to my “getting around”, it is acceptable to say that when referring to the blogosphere. I do make the rounds quite regularly. I learn something new every day, and I love that. You’re exactly right, we’re linking up people and ideas and I think what we create will benefit everyone who loves the outdoors. How cool is that!