When I started the What’s Up Wednesdays series here on Beyond the Rhetoric, the concept of a “speedlink” on a blog was slowly increasing in popularity. That popularity has since waned, but I still feel there is value in linking out to other blogs around the web. It’s my small way of giving back to the Internet community at large. We’re not competing; we’re cooperating. And that’s how we can achieve common success.
That’s similar to the idea to the Occupy Wall Street movement that has since expanded to Occupy Vancouver, Occupy London, and Occupy all sorts of other places. Raul Pacheco chimes in with his his thoughts on the movement. We all have a voice and we should all be heard.
What about the success of a single company? Ray Ebersole discusses the first post-Steve Jobs era at Apple, saying how the company failed its first test under Tim Cook. The rollout of iOS5 was fraught with problems and down servers, forcing iUsers to wait hours on end for an update that shouldn’t have taken that long at all. It took Ray twelve tries!
Over on Daily Writing Tips, Mark Nichol helps us improve our writing by offering ten terms for common people. When describing the masses, it helps to expand your vocabulary beyond simply calling them the common people. Many of these terms can be somewhat derogatory in nature, like peons and riffraff, but other terms can be a little more neutral. Just make sure the plebeians can understand you. 😉
In order to achieve a common success, we all need to keep our eyes on the prize. Charnita Fance outlines five tools to stay focused in her post on Blogging Tips. These are primarily web tools to keep you from getting distracted and going off track, but we also have to remember that simply having too many ideas can cloud your judgement too. There is no such thing as multitasking.
And finally, even though Buzz Bishop has moved away from Vancouver for some time, he still misses home. He may have left for greener pastures, but it’s all this green around us that he misses the most. Thankfully for him, Calgarians have the Douglas Fir Trail in Edworthy Park. It’s not really the same as the Grouse Grind, but it almost feels like home. Almost.
I’m a huge fan of linking out to folks in posts. Many of the clients I work with see them as a little link-baity, but I think they get more attention and are valuable ways to mention others. It’s almost as if the posts are twitter follow-friday editions. I’m a fan. Keep it up.
Very good thought Michael. I link a lot of times to just what I am talking about, but BTR is the most linked blog that I use in my posts. I have also linked John a few times, and Ed Darnell in Texas for his education blog, but I do not have the readership to ask for submissions to speedlink.
Although I don’t know what would happen if I did ask for submissions on Twitter.
To be honest, most of the posts I share on What’s Up Wednesdays come from my Google Reader. I do ask for submissions via Twitter, though, since I’m always on the lookout for new and interesting blogs to read (even if my Reader is always overflowing with unread content).