Your Alphabloggers:
Carol Sill 
Isabella J. Mori 
Today you can find me over at Reader Appreciation Project, where I wrote a guest post on appreciating those readers who we sometimes forget – fellow bloggers.
Reader Appreciation Project is a great blog that concentrates exclusively on how to best appreciate and interact with our readers. Example posts treat topics such as
Most posts are followed by a good comment conversation. If you’re wanting to build more and deeper community on your blog, Reader Appreciation Project is a great source of information.
People, I like blogging so much - what did I do before this medium came along?
There are so many things you can do with blogging. Here’s a terrific project by my friend David Alexander (yet another person I met through Stumbleupon). David has a blog, Planet Thoughts, about Global Warming, Peak Oil, Resource Depletion, and Sustainable Living. David is really committed to this, he doesn’t just talk about it, he’s also taking action. Here’s his project:
We all want to do what we can to reduce the global warming gases that get emitted, especially in our own areas of living and working, where we have the most direct influence. To add another dimension, it would be great to congratulate others who are doing something to help the environment.
For these reasons, we have created the Super-Cars Shout Out Competition™ (SCSOC). This contest allows you to place a simple, colorful flier on high mileage cars that you encounter, showing the vehicle owner that she or he
has done something worthy by choosing a leading-edge (in fuel efficiency) vehicle.
… when you are outside look for vehicles that are on the list of high-efficiency vehicles, those that officially achieve at least 40 mpg US (16.74 kmpl) on the highway. Place a flier on the windshield, keeping it as straight as possible, then step back and take a clear photograph showing the flier, and enough of the car to determine the make and model.
Here are the instructions in point form:
1. Download and print one or more of our fliers (recycled paper preferred)
2. Find a 40+ mpg US (16.74 kmpl) car from our list (or make a request that one be added)
3. Place our flier under the windshield wiper
4. Use a digital camera or good cell phone to photograph
5. Upload the image or images to the PlanetThoughts.org Web site
(and 6: Wait to see whether you’ve won the contest. Yes, you can win up to $500 with this. Go here to look it up. The contest is up until June 2)
Anyone can participate, from anywhere: from Alaska to Argentina, from Tokyo to the Tuscany.
I have to confess that I’m not much of a picture taker at all but this is such an interesting and important project, I’ll commit do doing this at least once before June 2. And I bet my partner Carol, who is much more of an image person, will participate, too. After all, here in Vancouver we like to think of ourselves as environmentally conscious people. Time to walk our talk!
Talking of which, let’s drum up some more participants. I’m calling on some of my Vancouver connections: The King of Compost, Al the Bokashiman; Nancy Zimmerman, our super-enlightened money coach; Beyond Robson, one of our “all about Vancouver” blogs; our green writer Mr. Narvey and of course our transit camp hero, Paul Hillsdon. Oh, and even though he’s not in Vancouver, my buddy Kilroy, I know he likes taking pictures.
People already involved in this are Sustainablog, A New Green Earth and Pelf-ism is contagious.
(This post was included in the Green Living Carnival)
In developing our mission statement for Alphablogs we kept mentioning fun. Well, comics are fun - so I put this one together to illustrate a coffee session on increasing blog traffic that we did in late November. We documented the meeting in a standard way in this previous post, which also includes more information and content. What do you think? Does the comic make you want to find out more?
One of our blogging friends here in Vancouver, InspirationBit, alerted us to a group writing project about blogging goals for 2008. What a great idea! So Carol and I sat down and came up with … tada! Five goals for 2008.
department and Isabella has a Masters Degree in distance education). And of course we’ll also see how we can adapt what John Chow of “Make Money Online” fame and infamy has to say. One thing we’re really interested in is ethical monetization. (I know some think that learning from John Chow and ethical monetization are mutually exclusive – we’re happy to engage in a conversation about that)(Image by bloggerdeblog)