A Meme - Five Questions About the Online Me

Ok fellow readers, who votes in favor of Caroline expanding a bit on meme’s?

I do!
If you’re here, it’s likely because you also like her honest, intelligent take on things.

Yes, Caroline, your next instinct should be to write an additional little blurb on these meme’s (with linkage).
Don’t mind the pressure while you’re already so busy ;-)

@NextInstinct - yup, I second that request!

Caroline - I’m intrigued by the “practising your writing” activity…are the blogs still out there? Or are they private? :-) What sort of things did you feel you needed to practise?

Caroline,

Thanks for playing along in this meme, I started it as part of HWH one year birthday celebration. I think it’s great to learn more about fellow bloggers.

I actually just stopped in from Monika’s blogging heroes post. Have been meaning to stop by for awhile to say hi. You’ve got a great blog here. I just subscribed to your feed :)

Heather

Wow! You’ve only been blogging for 10 weeks on this blog and you’ve got 528 subscribers and 11000 visitors!
That’s such an achievement!

Seriously, I like the frankness of the tone you use in your posts. And the way you update your readers. Laying things out step by step helps too.

Keep it up!
Samantha

Only ten weeks?! Wow Caroline! Just another great reason for people to subscribe to your blog as I did. You are fabulous! :)

@NextInstinct, Really, I don’t know anything more about meme’s than what I wrote in the post heh! This is the first time I have ever participated in one!

@Lea, well practise probably isn’t the right word. I wanted to write a blog, so I did but I was too scared to have anybody actually read them (I split one into three in the end) so I just let them sit there with me as the only reader :)

The main one was a health blog in which I documented my fat loss progress. I just dropped it like a hot potato in July when I started getting more into this online business. Plus I was pretty happy with my weight at that point so there wasn’t much else to say. You can see that one here:
http://carolines-quest-for-health.blogspot.com/

I also have a karate one but I rarely had anything to write about. You can see me in lots of very silly looking karate poses here:
http://carolines-higashi-journey.blogspot.com/

I also had a development diary for some software that never really got off the ground :(
http://mod-wars.blogspot.com/

Thankfully, I have done this blog properly :)

@Heather, hi :) Unfortunately your link didn’t work for me.

@Samantha, yeah I have been lucky with some recent publicity which accounts for the traffic and subs. I will explain all of that at the end of the month in the stats post.

@Lin, hehe thank you and welcome to my little corner of the blogosphere :)

I think the word ‘meme’ was invented by Richard Dawkins the British academic and science writer. It is meant to be the cultural equivalent of gene - the basic building blocks of a culture. It is roughly the equivalent of an idea or assumption.

It sounds like it has mutated in the on line world: to something like a discussion thread (what would the meme’s RNA be) that flows around the web instead of being on one site.

At the moment I am struggling to buid readerships for my blogs, so many thanks again for your post on posting strategy. This is still my biggest challenge (I don’t really see myself as a business person or as a marketer - limiting perhaps but this is my struggle point at the moment). More posts on how you built traffic to your site so quickly would be very welcome!

I had heard of a meme but didn’t really know what it was until now. Still a bit in the dark about it but it seems like a linking strategy.

Interesting that I would list exactly the same inspirational people. Steve Pavlina is the one who really got me inspired though - talk about making money! But he really writes some great stuff.

How do you get to where you are in 10 weeks, that is just amazing. My Alexa rank has gone form 9 mil to 300K in 3 months and I was happy, lets not debate Alexa I know everyone is not a fan, as for weight loss Ive been on Weight Watchers since April and lost 25 ilbs, 20 more to go…….

I’m not real big on memes, but I like this one and if I turned you down I’d feel bad :)

Thanks for the tag. Just did my part.

Caroline - I think you’re doing an absolutely stand up job with your blog. How you got your RSS reader growth is still a mystery to me, and I could definitely learn from you :)

Dev

Only 10 weeks is very impressive Caroline!

I wouldn’t call it information overload but lack of focus :-) I think you will do very well online because from your blog progress.

@Evan, thanks for that clarification!

@Making Sales,
@Dev,

Really I just got lucky - I promoted the Twitter guide and it got featured on Lifehacker, and ProBlogger and Yaro Starak both featured me on their blogs. This all happened within the space of a single week and from that loads of other people started talking about me. It was nothing special that I did :/

Hi Caroline,

I never knew that your blog is only 10 weeks old! I thought it was like 6 months old. I must say, you’ve achieved so much in only 2 months. Congrats…

By the way, don’t say you got lucky, you really wrote an excellent twitter guide. It just deserved to be promoted that much ;)

Thanks for clearing up what a meme really is. I have wondered about that as well. :)

Caroline,

Stay tuned because I’m going to end up doing a review on your blog. You’re such an inspiration!!

-Mike

interesting stuff. that meme is kind of like the emails that go around and ask dumb questions and you forward the answers and the recievers are supposed to the same. its lame, but at least this one creates backlinks and such.

interesting stuff. that meme is kind of like the emails that go around and ask dumb questions and you forward the answers and the recievers are supposed to the same. its lame, but at least this one creates backlinks and such.

It also gives your viewers a better understanding of who you are!

I think making negative comments like that is “lame.”

@Serge, actually yes it does remind me of those emails and I rarely respond to any of them. But I liked the sound of this meme and you forget one very important thing - it gives me a chance to talk about me! :D