Change Your Verbiage

Using terms like rockstar, superstar, nova star or anything to do with celestial bodies weirds me out.

Side Note: I’m still on the fence, however, about the word “awesomesauce.”

If you think you’ve stumbled upon the next Chris Brogan, please keep it to yourself. I am not looking for another Chris Brogan because he already exists. There’s no need to find his social media/online doppelganger.

Let’s tone down the Blogging Rockstar treasure hunt and appreciate what (new) writers have to offer.

Readers are constantly (and consistently) searching for material that is new, appealing, fresh, inspiring or different. Choose to highlight the differences instead of the commonalities amongst other writers  – it’s what makes learning about other bloggers so fun.

Guest Posts

I love a good guest post. I especially love it when a writer I regularly follow posts for another blog I keep up with (even if I don’t comment). Yet, one of my more favorite things to see is a writer posting outside normal niche.

Or, what’s even better?

Interviewing someone outside your normal subject content.

Interviews

Jun Loazya’s interviews with fellow bloggers are one of the more interesting approaches to blogger highlighting.  Loazya’s videos expose audiences to insightful conversations from bloggers about their content and writing. It’s nothing new to interview bloggers, but I love the access Jun provides. If only there were more

Elisa Doucette over at Ophelia’s Webb deeply profiles writers she likes and admires through her much-loved Blog Crush Series. Learning about other writers you may not be familiar breaks up what I like to call “blogger’s eye.”* Elisa adeptly focuses the writer’s best content with a well written path of links and references.

It’s like blog juice concentrate – except no nasty pulp.

Side Note: As of writing this post, Elisa’s blog site is undergoing some major repair, I’ll add a link once it’s back up!

Such a strategy rocks my socks far more than an absent-minded laundry list of underrated, best of, marketing hot shots, social media darlings or insert-adjective-here lists.

Whatever. Just sayin’.

Tweets

If you’re on Twitter, then tweet/auto feed posts from your favorite bloggers. I do this a lot. Granted, I may sound like a robot sometimes, but it doesn’t stop me from curating good work I believe my followers will enjoy.

Besides, it gets the word, supports fellow (and smaller) bloggers and breaks the monotony of tweeting the latest Life Hacker post.

*Bloggers Eye – a curious disorder going beyond solely tuning into the works of favorite writers/bloggers. Those who suffer from the affects develop a narrow minded cliquishness. They avoid exposing themselves to various content by narrowly circling ideas that most closely model their own or appeal to their sensibilities. Side affects range from loss of innovation, boringness and not being confronted with challenging ideas.