How many posts do you have languishing in your archives? Great posts that will never be dusted off and brought out to breathe again! Maybe you created fabulous content before you had lots of followers, or maybe you have been blogging for years and your current followers haven't seen your older material.
I have a plan.
Blog Gems - Air Your Archives is a forthnighly linky list where I will give a prompt and you select a post from your archives that fits the prompt. You do not have to create content for the prompt, unless you want to. All you have to do is copy and paste the url of the post into the linky list. Voila, an old post gets a second shot!
To take part:
1. Follow my blog to get future Blog Gem posting information and linkys.
2. Grab the Blog Gem button and place it on your sidebar (html code here)
Putting the button on your blog is not a dealbreaker, some people just don't like doing it and I have no problem with that at all. What I will say is that something like this can't be successful without 'word of mouth' so I would appreciate if you could find another way to let people know that this is available and they are welcome to join in.
3. Enter your link.
4. Read and comment on the submissions of the two blogs posted before you on the linky list. (Please!)
5. Help me spread the word by telling your blogging friends, sharing buttons at end of post.
Everyone has to start blogging somewhere. We have been hopping to each others blogs for a while now so I thought it might be nice to see where and how we all started out blogging.
Now, point us all in the direction of a your first public post:
Please read and comment on the two blogs that post before you on the linky list.
Happy Christmas!
Allison at Life in a Pink Fibro and I have gotten together to generate some cross-hemisphere linky love. Allison runs Weekend Rewind every weekend and is also based on posting up your favourite oldies. I have taken part this week and it is one of the friendliest bloghops I have ever taken part in! Her linky is closed now, but will be open again next weekend. Remember to go have a look!
Maxabella also does a lovely linky each week called 'I'm grateful for.....', I recommend that one too.
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23 comments:
Great idea, Jen! Admitting I fudged a bit - I linked the 2nd 'actual' post but the first 'real' post. Notice that I only managed one post a month back then, and basically, no one read my blog - the first comment came months later.
Thanks for another 'gems' opportunity. Barbara
Great idea but I cheated a little too and used my 2nd post as I'd linked up my first a couple of weeks ago!
I can't believe it was less than a year ago that my father was dying and I started blogging. I am such a blogger - what took me so long to figure that out and land here? Anyway... here is the beginning of squashedmom at The Squashed Bologna.
And thanks again for doing this, it's brilliant!
Your timing is uncanny. I was prompted into blogging by a book tour hosted by StirrupQueens.com nearly 4 years ago. Meliss was a stranger who changed my life when I googled the name of a book I'd just read.
And my most current post is hosting a book tour for Melissa and her newly released book, "Life from Scratch." Very much full circle :-).
I agree with Varda that your BlogGems idea is brilliant.
Hah, read it correctly this time! :-)
Love this idea. Reading my first post made me realize how far we've come in our house. thank you.
I visited Laura and Varda's first posts and found them inspiring as always :) and when no one is tugging on me, I'll visit the rest!
Hope I did the link right :-)
Has it been a fortnight already? I love that every fortnight I get to use the word fortnight.
Alrighty Lynn, enough with the fortnight.
Thanks for letting us air again Jen!
Oh, and the only reason I have comments on this first post is because I put it as my About Me page.
Oh yikes! Not my first one? Please don't make me post that!!
Oh hell...I'll trudge off and have a look so :-P
xx jazzy
Somehow I've been blogging for 6 months, I had no idea! Thanks for this idea, the only people who read my first post were close friends and family- not a single comment!
I always get such a laugh out of the comments on the Blog Gems posts. Cheating is ok so don't worry, Jazzy, you can put up your second one if you really want and just for Lynn 'fortnight fortnight fortnight'.
This one is for a bit of a laugh, and to see how much we have changed or progressed since we started blogging so I think it will be good to look back. We are all in the same position and maybe cringing a bit but lets just have fun :D
Thanks everyone for joining in :)
Jen
Great idea, I was thinking that the other day actually as occasionally I have a read of old posts just to see what was going on with the girls. it's a nice reminder. At the moment I'm trying to reduce images on my blog as it's a bit chaotic, so I hope you don't mind if I don't put the button on just yet - but I will do once I've got rid of some crap! I'll post about it too to spread the word. xxx
Im such a blond at times...i added the wrong link.... sorry.... so Im adding two links cause you wnat my first post ...oh my goodness
I love my first ever post, so pleased to add it!
Ugh. I'm kind of embarrassed by my first post. I have learned a lot about blogging since I put it up. Back then, I thought it was about writing. Now I know better. :-) But I''m game. Sort of.
This seemed like a good idea until I read my first post again. I certainly hope my posts have improved. I am posting the first one, so I hope those who read it will realize I had no idea of how to blog just three short months ago.
I loved "Teaching the Boy" which is the post two above mine. As I've said before, I never had the patience to homeschool although I did consider it when by daughter was bullied. Honestly, she did not want her mom as a teacher either.
I also like the Autism Blogs Directory post. Kim and Kathleen, it is to the point and it accurately describes why you set up the directory. Thanks again for doing this.
@PinkFibro and DSWalker, every single one of us is in the same position, we were all new to blogging at some point, don't worry about it, this is meant to be fun and let us all get to know each other better:) Jen
Jen,
Thanks for doing this! I always enjoy finding new blogs.
Blog gems is really taking off now isn't it - so many entries this week!!!
Mines really boring and makes me cringe a bit when I read it back lol
Great idea to go back to our first posts. Thanks and I'm glad to be a part of Blog Gems!
This is my first time to join a blog hop or anything like that. I'm such a blog virgin. Anyway, I can't wait to read some of these awesome blogs that I wouldn't have found otherwise!
I'm new to this whole blogging thing too. What a fun idea. My first blog post wasn't very long ago, I hope that's ok.
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