Scraps Of Mind

Scrapbooking Social Media Love-in

Last month Darren Rowse from Problogger ran a Social Media Love-in for his readers. And following in his footsteps, I thought I’d set up one for on-line scrapbookers.

The object of the exercise was to help all his readers to connect with each other on the social media sites that they belonged to. They could then network better amongst the community and support each other’s blogs by notifying their friends when they post something extra good on their blogs, or when they find something good on someone else’s blog, so that their friends can read and share their social media love. That will help their blogs to grow and increase their traffic.

The social media game needs to be played carefully. registering with social media sites like StumbleUpon and Digg and then just submitting your own material is not a good strategy. You need to interact with the community and spread your love around if you want to reap the benefits of other people’s love.

Darren’s project was a huge success. receiving over 600 comments in the first 24 hours.

The thing is, scrapbooking tends to be a pretty focused niche. Non-scrapbookers frequently don’t ‘get it’ and so being part of a general blogging related network will usually not really help in your own networking efforts. You need to connect with other like minded souls.

Which is where this Scrapbooking Social Media Love-in comes in.

As a scrapbooker and cardmaker I encourage you to list your profile addresses for the social media sites that you belong to in the comment section.

Then go and visit everyone else’s and add them to your friends list. And start building relationships that will benefit both of you. What goes around comes around and I have found that giving to others in the blogosphere will send benefits back to you.

Make sure that you check the Subscribe to Comments box when you leave your details. That way you’ll be notified when someone leaves their details after you and you can add them to your friends too.

So to get the ball rolling, here are the addresses you can find me on most social media sites. My user ID is karooch pretty much everywhere.

Kirtsy (if you’re not a member of this site (and your female) then you really should be.

http://www.kirtsy.com/user.php?login=karooch

StumbleUpon

http://karooch.stumbleupon.com/about/

Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=624863962

YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/user/karooch

Delicious

http://delicious.com/karooch

Propeller

http://www.propeller.com/member/karooch/

Digg

http://digg.com/users/karooch

Mixx

http://www.mixx.com/users/karen90132

So now you list your profiles in the comments and then go and add everybody else’s profiles as your friends. Don’t forget to check the Subscribe to Comments box so you can get the ones that come after yours.

And while your at it, why not let your own blog readers know about this, or even share it with your own social media friends.  And let’s start some Scrapbooking Loving!