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Last year, my good
friend Heather from the blog SometimesI’m a Story took a ‘Fan Week’, a week where she focused solely on visiting
other people’s blogs and commenting on and sharing their posts. I thought it
was a fantastic idea. As a blogger, I know every visit, every comment, every
follow and every share of my blog posts is a big encouragement to me, and to
other bloggers I’m sure it must be the same. This March, Heather is holding a
Fan Month. Basically, we get to pick when in the month we’re going to be a fan
of other peoples’ blogs. If you’re interested in joining in, you can find all
the details here. Of course, I plan on joining in with Fan Month, and in light
of that, here are my answers to Heather’s five questions that have helped me
outline my involvement with Fan Month.
1. When do you plan on being a fan?
I really enjoyed the idea of a week of being a fan, so I
choose to make my fan week the first week of March; that is March 2nd
to March 8th. In that week, I will of course have posts scheduled to
post on this blog and will be answering comments, but that week will not be
about me and my blog. It’ll be about the rest of this amazing community we are
part of.
2. What goals will you set for yourself?
I’m starting small with this Fan Week. My goals are to
comment on at least five new blogs every day, and to share my three favourite
posts of the day on my Facebook Page. It’s a doable goal, and means that
I will visit quite a number of new blogs in that time, and hopefully share a
bit of encouragement too.
3. Are you going to set any rules for yourself? Exceptions to those rules?
Oh rules. I always break the rules anyway.
4. Where do you plan on sharing the great posts you read?
My plan is to share my favourite posts of each day on my
Facebook page. So if you would like to see what posts I’m reading next
week, you could hop over to my page and like it to get updates on where I’ve
been and the blogs I’ve seen during fan week. Maybe you’d even like to hop over
to the blogs I share and spread a bit of encouragement too.
5. Where could you be a fan outside the blogosphere?
This is actually a really good question. For me I think this
would take the form of making more of an effort to be interested in and help
with what my family members are doing. Everyone could do with a bit of attention
and encouragement sometimes, and where better to start than in the family?
So there you have it,
my declaration of fan week. Are you joining in with the fun? What are your
favourite blogs to read? Leave me some recommendations of blogs to visit in the
comments and give me somewhere to start this fan week!
