Today's Armchair BEA topic is Ask the Experts. The topic is, "Ask a question or share a tip."
My questions are, "What's a Meme? Why would it be good to use it? When should you use it?"
If you have time, take a look at my latest review: Taste by Kate Evangelista and find a meme for it. That would probably be the most helpful- a real world type application of a meme. My mother said something like this, "You know you're middle aged when technology is unintuitive. You find yourself in hair pulling-type bouts of frustration. (Late adapter) You know you're old when technology is in active revolt against you- when people give up explaining and just do it for you provided you just stop complaining. (Never adapter)" Well, I'm at the middle aged point- so I don't get memes. I'm sure I've seen them, but I just can't recognize them.
If you answer, have pity, please be nice. Because this is me in 30 years:
Memes are common posts that are normally done on a weekly basis.
ReplyDeleteI participate in the Teaser Tuesday meme that was started by Should Be Reading (http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com/).
On Tuesdays, I post a two sentence (or so) teaser from my current read. Then I go to blogs I follow that also participate and read their teasers.
It's a way to share the love about books and build community among the bloggers.
Here's an example of recent one that I did. http://www.stuckinbooks.com/2012/05/teaser-tuesday-52912-giveaway-reminder.html I usually then tweet about my teaser to promote my blog and the author/book I choose.
Hope that helps.
Thanks for participating!
Here's my experts say post
Valerie
StuckInBooks
I agree with Valerie on everything :)
ReplyDeleteMemes are great to use to meet new bloggers and have fun commenting and finding blogs you wouldn't have found before.
Hi! You've probably seen memes around a lot before - a meme is any recurring "feature", created by a host blog and participated in via linky's on a regular basis (usually weekly). These Armchair BEA posts are kind of like memes, since we all talk about one topic and link our posts to the main page.
ReplyDeleteA really good example is Top Ten Tuesday:
http://brokeandbookish.blogspot.com/p/features.html
Some others are Book Blogger Hop, In My Mailbox, Sunday Salon, etc. I hope that helps!!!
Happy ABEA!
Yup, Valerie said it right. I also participate in Waiting on Wednesday from Breaking the Spine. It's a good meme to know upcoming books that other bloggers are looking forward to, and share book/s that you're waiting for too.
ReplyDeleteDropping by from Armchair BEA,
-Len of Musings of a Reader Happy
Thanks everyone. I understand what a meme is now. I feel kind of silly because after the examples people have given, I've pretty much seen a meme on most blogs I've visited. Thanks for visiting my blog, I'm planning to visit all of yours.
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