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I read through hundreds of post on blogging and post the best here. I do the digging so you don’t have to.
I am using Blog Bridge RSS Reader. I have all my memes in one guide (category).
This makes it super easy to scroll all the entries in one place.
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That’s one reason I like Blog Bridge. Here are more reasons:
There are many choices out there but Blog Bridge offers an unsurpassed set of productivity increasing, information distilling, eyeball-pleasing capabilities.
Legend:
- Attention statistics and metrics (release 5.13)
- Micropublishing - post directly to your own blog
- A built-in meme tracker (release 5.13)
- Beautiful album layout for Photo feeds
- SmartFeeds - standing searches modeled after iTunes Smart Playlists
- Dynamic subscription to OPML reading lists
- Publish industry-standard OPML Reading Lists
- Huge collection of Feeds and Reading Lists to get you started
- Direct integration with del.icio.us
- Wide integration with numerous other services, like Amazon, Google, Technorati and Flickr.
What is a meme? If you spend anytime browsing homeschool or Christian blogs you’ve probably seen Marriage Monday, Wordless Wednesday or Thankful Thursday. These are memes (pronounced like theme with an m) a meme is an idea that is shared and passed from blog to blog.
Memes are FUN and each time you join one you are promoting your blog and getting higher ranks on search engines.
I was looking through all the memes by day and was having a hard time keeping them straight, so I compiled a list of those I would like to take part in (those suitable for Christian homeschool moms) and made a linked scrapbook page. Proving that: 1. I’ll scrapbook anything. 2. I get confused easily and need everything in one place. You may want to bookmark this page to have all links to all your memes in one place.
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Blog Meme List by Daily Themes
This is a quick reference meme list for daily themes. Visit the blog meme hub for details or to grab required code or sign up.
Super Simple Spiritual Sunday This is a great place to start. No brain work or study involved. Simply keep track of blog posts you enjoyed during the week and post the list on Sunday with this pretty pink and yellow image and go to Heartofwisdom.com/blog to post your link. Make it seven links and you can also joinSunday Seven below (2 birds, 1 stone!)
Sunday Seven: Share your joys, your blessings and your burdens. List seven things going on in your life this week. Go back to the hub and comment on the current week’s thread so that other Sunday Seven-ers can visit you.
Marriage Monday: Blog about your marriage. Visit the Fruit In Season, the Marriage Monday Blog Hub for weekly marriage themes. This site uses Auto-Linkies for anyone interested in posting a lengthy answer to the questions posed for each Marriage Monday. Bloggers can link their name and website directly to the Marriage Monday post for that week. Comments are welcome as well.
Meal Plan Monday. Plan your menu each week with others by joining Laura, the passionate organizer at http://orgjunkie.blogspot.com.
Tuesday In Other Words: Christian Women Online give you a quote to make you think (and write about). Copy the current quote and use it as a journal writing prompt for your blog entry on Tuesdays. Add your URL to theMr. Linky’s auto links when your post is ready on Tuesday.
Tackle it Tuesday: Celebrate little steps of victory in your housework. Each Tuesday moms post a before and after pictures of a project or trouble area that they tackled that week. The project can be little or big – whatever you want. Basically it is about giving incentive, deadlines and satisfaction in getting our household tasks done.
Works for Me Wednesday: Wednesday you post a little tip you’ve learned–whether on parenting, or cleaning, or computers…basically anything that has “worked for you” in making your life easier. You post a link back to WFMW post, and enter your link in the “Mr. Linky” form at the bottom of the Rocks in My Dryer list.
Word Filled Wednesday: The purpose of Word filled Wednesday is to share God’s word through photos & a verse!
Wordless Wednesday: Post an image on your blog that needs no explanation. Go to Wordless Wednesday.com and enter your link in Mister Linky’s Autolink Widget to share with other Wordless Wednesday-ers.
Thankful Thursday: Count your blessings every Thursday. What a great way to pick up your mood than to make a list of things you are grateful for. Grab the code from Sting my Heart and get added to the blogroll. (I’ve combined Thursday 13 with Thankful Thursdays by listing 13 blessings.)
Thursday Thirteen: This began as a shorter version of “100 things” every week- to help bloggers get to know fellow bloggers. In order to get on the blogroll, you need to be a Thursday Thirteen regular, and you need to have the blogroll displayed on your blog. That may lead to problems because this is not a Christian list. You can always post 13 things without joining the blogroll.
Booking Through Thursday: This is not a book review meme, it is a meme about reading. Each week visit the hub to get a questions about reading. Copy the questions, paste them into your blog and answer them. When you’re done, go back to the hub to post a comment or trackback letting everyone know so they can read your responses.
Photo Friday: A weekly challenge. Each week Photo Friday posts a photo assignment. Your mission is the creative interpretation of the week’s theme. When you’re done, post the picture you took to your website and submit your link to Photo Friday. It’s not a competition. Anyone with a camera and a place on the Internet to post pictures can participate.
Fruit of the Spirit Friday: I started this meme. You have three options. 1. Write about one of the fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. 2. Write about a person who exhibits fruit or 3. Answer the 7 discussion questions.
I’m hosting a fun March Meme now at Heart at Home. What’s On Your Refrigerator? Meme
We all have refrigerators and most of us have personal items on the doors that reveal a little about our lives. The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone a little bit better. It will help your readers get to know you and help you to get to know other bloggers.
To make it more fun we are offering TWO bloggers a prize! Both winners will receive Clutter’s Last Stand.
- FIRST PRIZE: The first winner will be the person with the most interesting fridge.
- SECOND PRIZE: The second will be from a random drawing.
The best way to get blog visitors is to join a Blog meme.
Super Simple Spritual Sunday is an easy, quick, no brainer way to spread spiritual encouragement, get to know the blogging community as well as introduce the blogging community to your blog!
I was thinking of all the great encouraging posts I run across duing the week and how to organize and share them. The result is this SSSS Blog Meme. Want to meet other bloggers? There is no better way than to join a blog meme. If you don’t know what a meme is read about it here.
1. During the week keep a list of your very favorite spritual encouraging blog posts with links (best to keep in your blog draft). Start today! If you don’t know of any blogs go to Blog Search and type in Christian homeschool or a similar term. Use my blogrolls.
2. Post your list of links on Sunday (morning is best). Visit and comment on SSSS blogs.
3. If you want to use the image above, copy and paste the code in the box below in to the code section of your post.
4. Go to HeartofWsidom.com/blog to add your link to Mr. Linky (super simple!)
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