Dwayne Melancon over at Genuine Curiosity has a great post entitled “Tinkering in the Garage of my Mind.” The general idea of the post is to develop conversations with people that you meet on airplanes, Starbucks and generally anyplace in public. His post is further amplified by the positive experience he had when going through Lisa Haneberg’s “2 Weeks 2 A Breakthrough” process in which he was encouraged to talk about his goals with everyone he encountered, and even enlist their help. That was way out of his comfort zone, but yielded powerful results.
I really like this idea but I thought of an interesting twist. How about handing out business cards for your favorite blogs to people that you meet? It would be easy to create cards with either one name on them or a group of names. Can you imagine the look on someones face when you hand them a “Slacker Manager” card? How about an “Open Loops” card with Berts cool logo on it. People would be sure to click on a Ho‘ohana card from Talking Story just to find out what it means.
You could even hold up a few and have someone pick one like a card trick… pick a card… any card..
I have learned so much from blogs and I realize so few people know about them. When I mention that I blog, most people don’t have a clue what I’m talking about. I think this would be a great way to introduce people to the wonderful world of weblogging.
I have some blank business cards sitting on my desk… maybe I’ll fire up publisher and give it a go…
Let me know what you think…
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Wow John, this is a very generous idea!
More and more I find myself asking other managers about reading blogs, and as you point out, there are still so many who have never heard of them. I’ve always given out a listing of recommended reading in my classes, and up to now the list has only had books and specific online maagazine articles - adding blogs is a good idea.
Rosa
It is amazing Rosa, as popular as blogging is supposed to be, most people have never visited one. I think business cards and e-mail links might help. I found out about blogging in a audio book that I bought on Itunes. Supposedly there are 30,000 new blogs created every day. Seems like a well kept secret to me..
John
What a wonderful brainchild!
I continue to be amazed by the number of people who don’t know what a weblog is. I think I will mark up some cards of my own. But what blogs would I start with?
I’m curious. Which five blogs would you choose to represent the entire Blogosphere in an advertising campaign?
Thanks for the kind words Troy. If I had to pick five blogs it would probably be ones from my links list. I’ve looked at the top 100 blogs on Technorati and I really don’t care for a lot of them. Your site is clean and I really like your tagline “Orbit Now: Don’t wait for permission to succeed!”
It is unfortunate that many people do wait for permission… usually from themselves.
Keep up the great work!
John