You Nominated Me For What???

When Kelsey first told me he had nominated ReinventingErica.com for A Blogger’s Choice Award for Best Geek Blog, I thought he was nuts. Who in the world would vote for my blog? Let’s face it — I really don’t blog that consistently. And while I do occasionally have a profound thought or two — I’m probably not all that feed worthy.

Kelsey nominated me just to help my rankings in Google (I’m currently #7 for the term “erica” — hoping to be #1 some day). We never thought people would actually vote — and never in a million years did we think that we would make it to the #4 spot (just below blogs like Boing-Boing and Lifehacker). But we have. And that inspired us to conduct a little experiment into the Power of Social Media.

How Powerful is Social Media For The Average Person?

We’ve decided to use this opportunity as a chance to test different social networks — and find out what works and what doesn’t. We’ll be documenting our efforts over the next few weeks, including who’s voting, how they learned about the competition, who’s blogging about it, and why — and whether they voted because they were personally contacted by one of us either online or in person — or because they saw a link on one of the Social Networking sites/Blogs. We’ll also compare the effects of off-line versus online communities. Are people more likely to vote if they meet us and talk to us face to face? Or is a video introduction or twitter link more effective?

We’ll be targeting networks like Twitter, VIRB, MySpace, YouTube, Viddler, Delicious, Flickr, Meetup, DIGG, and more. We’ll also be asking people to blog about it, and finally we’ll be talking about it at local community events such as Refresh, CSS Meetup, Netsquared, and more.

Christine and Greg our partners from The Method Agency will also be helping us get the word out. If you’d like to help us, feel free to blog about our efforts, or encourage your friends to vote.

If you have already voted, please feel free to leave a comment below telling us how you learned about the competition and why you decided to vote.

Haven’t Voted Yet?

You can use the following link to vote for this site. Please be sure to register and confirm your registration before voting.

http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/1474

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