Celebrate National DeLurking Week – leave a comment

January 12, 2009 by John Dilbeck · 27 Comments
Filed under: Aweber Autoresponders, Blogging, Marketing 

I have my Macintosh set up with multiple accounts that are optimized for particular tasks. When I sign into one account, it opens with a predetermined set of applications waiting for me to get right to work. My browser’s home page on one account will be different than it is on another account. As I can identify something that I’ll be doing often enough, I’ll set up a new account and optimize it for that task.

Now, I said all of that to give you a bit of background on how I operate. This morning, I signed into my main marketing account and it loaded a text editor with a couple dozen documents open and my iCal calendar application. In this version of my calendar, I’m subscribed to a marketing calendar maintained by Aweber.com. Someone at Aweber regularly updates this calendar with interesting holidays, events, and observances, and some have some good marketing ideas associated with them.

This morning, I saw a band across the entire week, celebrating National DeLurking Week.

Here’s what the calendar says:

It’s time to get active online. You’ve got 51 weeks a year to read webpages without making your presence known, but this week, be sure to comment wherever possible! DeLurk and come out of the shadows!

National DeLurking Week is celebrated the second full week of January, running from Monday through Sunday.

One of the goals of most bloggers is to start a conversation on their blog. Otherwise, it feels like we’re just standing on a mountain and shouting into a fog bank.

I’ve been lucky and have developed some friendships with other bloggers around the world. I am positive this would not have happened if we didn’t comment on each others’ blogs. Sometimes we agree, sometimes we disagree, but we always learn from each other.

In fact, making it easy for someone to comment about what I write about was the major determining factor that finally motivated me to leave my previous primary blog and develop this one. It is set up to encourage your comments and, in return, you get links to your latest blog posts and/or websites. I think that’s only fair.

So, are you planning to celebrate National DeLurking Week?

Leave a comment somewhere. Make a new friend. Learn something or share what you’ve already learned.

Now, don’t just leave a “good post” comment. Leave something substantive, something that will enhance the conversation.

Lurkers, this is the week to come out of the shadows!

Act on your dream!

JD

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