If you’ve followed my blog at all, you know that, for the past four years or so, I’ve been participating in something called ABC Wednesday, in which people, literally from around the world, post an item – pictures, poems, essays that in someway describe each letter of the alphabet, in turn.
It was started about six years ago by one Denise Nesbitt from England. Initially, she was doing it all – writing the weekly introductions, visiting all the folks who came to the site, making sure they were abiding by the rules. At some point, she recruited a team of her followers to do some of the intro writing and visiting, which eventually included me.
Then a couple of rounds ago, she was wondering if she should give it up because she was getting a little burned out. So I became the administrator, assigning who reads which posts, making sure somebody is writing the introductions (and writing them myself, when necessary), and inserting the link that allows everyone to participate. Also having to play bad cop when someone grossly violates the simple rules.
I remember my first post, K is for the Keating Five. It was somewhat political, I suppose, and unlike what other people were writing, so I wasn’t sure how well it would be accepted; I guess it was fine.
The Netiquette for the site is this:
1. Post something on your non-commercial blog/webpage having something to do with the letter of the week. Use your imagination. Put a link to ABC Wednesday in your post and/or put up the logo.
2. Come to the ABC Wednesday site and link the SPECIFIC link to the Linky thing. It’ll be available around 4 p.m., Greenwich Mean Time each Tuesday, which is 11 a.m. or noon in the Eastern part of the United States.
3. Try and visit at least 5 other participants…and comment on their posts. The more sites you do visit, the more comments you will probably get.
Bloggers, consider giving it a try if this sounds interesting. We’ll be starting with A again in a couple of weeks.
I participated since the very beginning ! I like this meme (or theme)!
Though I won’t be around next round, I would still participate from time to time, I love this meme as well. Just been so busy lately.
I shall certainly participate in the next round. This meme gave me the opportunity to meet six bloggers in the course of several years, which was always very nice. I also learned a lot of new things. I think this meme is one of the most informative ones. I do hope that many of you will continue taking part in our weekly worldly webmeetings. Let’s see each other again in round thirteen. Many thanks to Mrs.Denise Nesbitt and Roger.