Darren Rowse of ProBlogger has declared today an unofficial Blogger Appreciation Day with the aim of spreading acts of random kindness and encouragement amongst bloggers. Darren was prompted to start this initiative because of messages he had received from bloggers who were feeling disheartened.
I often talk of social networking and its value in bringing us visitors, backlinks and increasing our rankings. Certainly an increase in subscriber count, visitor numbers or pagerank can be encouraging and a boost to the ego but I can get that from the static websites I build. The beauty of blogging for me is being able to enjoy the more personal benefits of a network of blogging friends. Without those people who have offered me their help, support, encouragement and kindness I am sure I would not be blogging today. I am going to show my appreciation by updating my blogroll which is very much out of date.
We can all show our gratitude on an ongoing basis by making an effort to visit our friend’s blogs regularly and leaving comments and help them out where we can – which can range from praise for a good post, giving them some link love in our own blogs and helping them promote their sites with Stumbles, Diggs or whatever is their favorite favoriting site.
Thanks Darren, it is good to be reminded to take care of the important things in life, with busy schedules it is too easy to neglect showing appreciation for the people in our lives.
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Happy Blogger Appreciation Day!
My blogroll is always terribly out of date but whenever I start thinking about doing stuff on my own blog I find other stuff online that I want to do more (like read blogs!)
Good luck with the task!
Very cool idea.
Happy Blogger Appreciation Day!
I had no idea that it was unofficial blogger appreciation day.
Sigh.
Sometimes I think I’m not a great blogger to not keep up with this stuff but I’m here and I’m appreciating you so I must be doing ok
lol
Thanks Bettina
I think I am not a great blogger about blogging – or I would have given more notice of this
Thanks for sharing this information. I just have started blogging very recently and I am already amazed with some very worm responses. Blogging is definitely worth of try. Thanks and wonderful blog you have here.
Hi there,
First time vistor and very impressed with the site! Happy belated unofficial blogger appreciation day.
Thank you and welcome to my little home on the web.
Oh I missed this. Oh well. Hope you had a good day
The day was almost over when I found out about it myself – I need to follow ProBlogger more closely – on twitter as well as the blog these days.
Thanks for the nice words of the encouragement, and for the comment on my blog, I appreciate your insight.
This is a nice initiative, too bad it doesn’t last long enough for everyone to catch up. Why don’t we have a monthly Blogger Appreciation Day?
I think as bloggers we tend to do a lot of patting each other on the back in the normal course of things
An annual event sounds like a good idea though.
Hope you had a great Happy Blogger Appreciation Day, belated as it is.
You’re appreciated Sue.
Bloggers are some of the nicest people I’ve met online. I’ve only been blogging for a couple months, and I have been helped a lot, even by the “cool kids”. Starting a blog is nerve-racking to say the least, and being a n00b just adds to it. To all the helpful bloggers out there, thank you, and Happy Blogger Appreciation Day.
I am in the process of updating my Blogroll too.
The first thing I do every day is visit the blogs (and COMMENT!! LOL) of people who have commented on my blog. I appreciate every single person that takes the time to read my drivel. So I guess I am doing this every day!
Wish I knew about this though, I could have done something more.
I am in the process of putting up a blogroll on my blogger blog …
excellent post – without our commenters /readers we wouldn’t keep blogging.
I appreciate you too.I learn a lot from your techy posts.
hello happy Appreciation day…
Hi Sueblimely!
I’m in the process of building up a blogroll, and am really enjoying reading a lot of great Aussie blogs – of which yours is one
So even though I am extremely late to Appreciation Day, please accept my appreciationessness (that’s SO not a word!)of your blog – it’s so informative
Sorry I missed this. I wish that I would have known about it sooner so that I could have blogged about it. I will have to do this next year and maybe even hold a contest for all bloggers.
drop and comments..
is that OK?
p/s: entrecard…
thanks in advance for approve me..
I’ve built my entire blog around appreciating the work of others, so everyday is blogger appreciation day for me
I think thats a great idea.
Darren is doing great stuffs for the bloggers community. look at his current posts.
The day was almost over when I found out about it myself – I need to follow ProBlogger more closely