Crossleft Call 9/9
Submitted by Jim Ramelis on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 14:13
Crossleft Call Tuesday, September 9th at 8:30 P.M. Eastern time, that is 7:30 P.M. Central time, 6:30 P.M. Mountain time, and 5:30 P.M. Pacific time.
Dial 218-339-2500 extension 727705#
Proposed Agenda
1. Three New Featured Bloggers
2. A kind Christian method to deal with Featured Bloggers who no longer blog
What other issues do you have?
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I'll miss it (as usual)
Of course, THIS month I'd probably remember and not forget, but I'll be in Istanbul. And, just because I love y'all, I'll eat a little more hummus for you, and price just one more carpet in your honor. Antique carpet, of course.
As for the blogger question, I don't think we can write a script for this. You've got to talk back and forth with the remiss blogger for a bit, find out why and get a feel for if this warning is going to get the blogger back on the straight and narrow. Or else just say, "Janet, you haven't been blogging much lately, can we take yer ugly mug off the front page?" The point isn't to rotate featured bloggers quicker, but I think the point is to get more blog posts written. No matter what you had planned for my mug shot, lighting a fire under me is always entertaining and usually effective. (I haven't had access to my email for the last two weeks, problems on my end, so if fires have been started under my bloggin' fingers in email, well, someday I'll figure out what's wrong and fix it.)
In my case, well, it's summer, and summer in Texas is its own excuse. But my really truly flat out honest reason is that I start out each evening with several blog topic ideas floating in my head, not fleshed out or researched or anything but ideas. But I don't want to write anything until I see what everybody has said about topics here, uh and on the daily kos and all the other places I read, and then I come back here and read through our topics again and usually post all my ideas as replies to people. Or at least all the good ideas. The bad ones never get written because it's hot and it's now really late and they aren't good ideas anyway. Or if you don't like that excuse, true as it might be, give me a few hours and I'll thing of more excuses.
But I swear I'll do better whether I'm a featured blogger or not. I'll try to do better because I DO have things to say, if I can just think of them.
Janet
Janet, did you ever think of writing humor? You can be prety funny. People who make people laugh can make lots of money and make a statement.
I have a weather issue too. I haven't been as productive lately as usual. We had winter until Mid-May in Michigan's Upper Penninsula.June was 50,60 and drizzly. Summer didn't come until July and now its has cooled right down already. I have been doing all those things that people who live in more temperate climates do and never think about. Things like having a cookout and inviting some neighbors over, taking your kids to a baseball game, going fishing,sitting on someones porch and talking without getting snowed on, etc. We had a 2 month summer this year and I think we all just went a little nuts when the warmth and light finally came.It effected my kids too. They are teens but can't drive yet and were particualrly demanding this year. We live way out in the sticks so they have to be driven everywhere. If you don't channel them into something productive, they will fight and do negative things.The local yokels said of last winter 'This wasn't no Al Gore winter this year, this was a real old fashioned winter".It used to think it was funny that Swedes danced around the Maypole naked after a long winter but now I understand why.
More for Agenda
Rich mentioned a couple of things on another post that should be added:
Creation of a Crossleft Board &
501 (c) 4 status for Crossleft
Have You Asked the Feature Bloggers Why?
I think the first thing would be to ask the featured bloggers why they're no longer blogging? I'm sure this has probably already been done, just offering up my idea re 1st step. My next thought would come after I knew why they were no longer blogging...
Asking Why
Asking why does seem to be a logical first step. I haven't did that because I want a feel for what exactly my next step is, depending on the answer the blogger gives me. To use extremes as obvious examples, if the answer is "I am not blogging any longer because I no longer have any interest in Crossleft", my response is going to be much different than if the response is "I have been laid up the hospital and have family problems, but I will get going soon again."
If someone is just too busy and tells me they are unlikely to blog in the future, the answer I expect to hear most often, do I have fellow Crossleft members support in asking them if it would be okay if they stepped down as featured bloggers, and came back at such a time when they felt they were going to contribute again?
I am trying to get a consensus. Perhaps most Crossleft prefer I do nothing whatsoever, including asking some of the featured bloggers that no longer blog if they intend to blog again soon. I am trying to give the site a little more life by putting recent blogs on the front page and now having featured bloggers that actually blog on the site on the front page.