On Throwing a Stumble Upon Party
Mar 25th, 2008 by msdanielle
Yesterday’s little StumbleUpon party was a pretty good success. Thank you to everyone who left a comment! If you participated, feel free to go through the other commentators’ sites and stumble something for them if you have the time. I’ve come across some great blogs so far, and plan to get through the rest of them today. It was really refreshing for me and I wanted to give some feedback on my little experiment, and why it might be a good idea for you to try throwing a StumbleUpon party on your blog.
Find Out Who’s Reading Your Blog
There’s no sure way to know who’s reading your blog unless they make themselves known to you. Asking for your readers to volunteer a comment makes sure that they leave a footprint for you to follow.
Create Conversations
One of the best things about blogging is creating conversations with people you’d otherwise never meet. When you visit your readers’ blogs make sure to contribute to their content as well. The conversations are what make the blog come alive.
Stumble Quality Articles and Make SU a Better Place
By stumbling the articles that you find interesting, you’re contributing to the quality aspect of StumbleUpon. When people ask each other for stumbles, they’re promoting their own agenda, and some of this content might be lesser quality. Give the truly curious SU users something really thought-provoking, funny, or controversial to ponder.
Pay It Forward
Why not give something to those who take the time to read your blog? I’m so grateful that people still read my blog, I want to do something to get really involved every once in awhile in the midst of my workload. For myself a lot of the time I’m pulled away from my blog, so this gives me a way to really engage my little community very quickly. It’s fun!
Throwing a StumbleUpon party just creates a lot of buzz around your little piece of the blogosphere. Once you’ve done one you’ll see what I mean. Sure, some of your readers may stumble your content and give you some page views as well, but it’s part of the party. I’m not expecting anyone to stumble my site although they might since the thought is there. However, those extra page views are the icing on the cake. Imagine if everyone stumbled quality articles they found on their readers‘ sites. It’s just good karma.
A special shout-out goes to Karl Martinsson who posted this. See, you never know what you’ll find!
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It’s always good when readers make themselves known and we can visit their sites to see what they might be sharing with the world. It’s one of my favourite aspects of blogging!
With the success of this SU Party, others might be inspired to do similar things on their site and, hopefully, give you a little credit for getting the ball rolling. Perhaps the next time you host one of these, there will be several dozen new readers leaving comments and learning about each other
Congrats, Danielle!
i hope other people try it out and see what happens. it’s just fun
thanks jason!
Thank you for stopping by my blog. This was a great idea. I think when I get enough readers I may try something like this.
Can you give me some stumble? If you don’t mind…
Joke!
Great Danielle! I was not in yesterday unfortunately, but I will the next time
I really do need to keep up with my blog feeds better. Looks like I missed out on a neat party!
Hey, kind of (maybe) off topic. Where did you get your “Share This” widget? – better question… which is it?
i just switched it to Sociable. here’s the link
http://www.joostdevalk.nl/wordpress/sociable/
i don’t think the other one i was using did anything useful
Thanks a ton. I’ve been looking around for something decent.
-JKT
Thanks for the Stumble Party. Your Stumble of Megan Fox is bringing in some traffic. I gave the thumbs up to all the pages you stumbled. And yes number 5 on the insanity list would be really fun to do.
sweet. you get extra karma points for stumbling the other readers’ pages! it feels good, doesn’t it?
that is a solid idea. do you know how this originated? or did you invent the stumbling party? very cool … i want to start a “fumbling” party though…
Hey girl!!! I haven’t seen you for a long time…and now I see you are on entrecard!! I’ve missed stopping by!
hello!!
how’s it going? yes it’s been awhile indeed. got any good quizzes for me??
i like how danielle thinks of the community! I am going to start that as soon as my traffic is back up! thanks for the inspiration!
When’s the next stumble party?
i don’t know, they were just kind of random. you going to throw one on your blog?
Every time i vist your blog your banner reminds me of a friend of mine. Anyways, i can’t seem to recover my stumble password :S Im sure i have not changed it or anything. Hmmm…
A Stumble Party…what a GREAT idea! I am signing up for your feed so I don’t miss the next one
Long time no see……….Hope all’s well.
Hey someone please stumble my site… I’m despo!!??
I have used Stumbleupon…But I never known that it held kind of party…I think it’s interesting. I would like to try if any other opportunity.