Come One, Come All!

I was invited by a new-found blogger friend Tom to join this year's Second Annual Community Network Meme 2011 and I am inviting you all to join too! I have heard of memes in the past but I always thought that they are for "professional bloggers" only. Anyway, I am so excited to join this year because it is the perfect chance for me to meet and get to know other bloggers!

The idea of a meme is to post a set of questions that many bloggers will answer and post it on their blog on the same day and time. After which, everyone will visit other bloggers, read their answers and comment on their responses. Here's how it works: (repost from Tom's site)

1. If you want to participate, send a message to Tom using his contact page and in turn he will email you a copy of the meme questions.

2. You will compose your answers in a post along with the Meme graphic (grab from above) and schedule the post for December 11th at 12.01 am based on your time zone. Last year everyone posted at 12.01 but with 24 time zones we spent a lot of time waiting for some blogs to get posted. This year all posts will be simultaneous (data to be posted at a later date) based on time zones and not clocks.

3. A master list of everyone participating will be generated and posted along with your answers in December so you will be able to pick whose blogs you would like to visit.

Community Network Rules of Participation:

- You must agree not to post your answers until everyone else does.
- You must agree that you will visit at least five blog links that you have never visited before and leave a comment on their responses.
- You must answer each of the twenty questions and do so with more than a simple yes or no response.
- You must post the entire Master Meme Blog List of blogs participating, regardless of how long the list may grow to be, below your answered questions.
- You must title your post the same as everyone else, “Community Network Meme 2011″.
- You must direct all interested parties to Morning Erection’s Contact Page to get the questions. You may not give them a copy of yours. Remember, we are trying to avoid Sunday Stealing from stealing and posting before December 11th.
- You must promote the Community Network Meme at least once on Facebook or some other form of social media, even if it is just your own blog to get more bloggers to participate. Provide the link back to your original post so they can post this in its entirety on their blogs, just like we did.
- If you would like to participate and write the post in your language and not English, feel free to translate it or you could post both translations.
- Make sure to either vote for or like the post appropriately if on the WordPress platform.

This is gonna be fun! See you! :)