Six Degrees of Blogging

Most Excellent Blog Adventure

Today's visit begins at Troy Worman's Orbit Now site.  My goal is to link from Troy's site to someone I am not familiar with.  And then link from their site until I reach six degrees of separation.  Criteria for the journey are:

• The site must contain a blogroll
• I must find the site interesting
• I cannot link to a familiar name

I was surprised to see how many people do not have blogrolls.  I wasn't surprised to see how many people have a Seth Godin link.  Congratulations Troy on your two year blogging anniversary!

By the way, my mode of transportation today is a Schwinn Cruiser Deluxe.  Troy sends me over to
Anna Farmery's place, The Engaging Brand .  What a delightful concept here that Anna paints:  See the Person Not the Roll.  Anna doesn't have a large blogroll but I found a gem with her referral of Heidi Miller's Talk it Up place.  Can you believe how Heidi is designing her promotional material and biz cards?  Guts!

Heidi says, "visit Garr."  Garr Reynolds calls his corner, Presentation Zen .  Garr starts of this post on Learning From the Art of Comics:

"You know my philosophy: Keep reading and keep looking — we just never know where we'll find inspiration and knowledge if we open our eyes and go off the beaten path."

I've kept this thought close to my heart for years! 

Garr tells me about this young woman who helps to liberate people.  Pamela Slim does just that.  As with Heidi, Pamela is enlisting her readers for biz help.  Awesome!  You know, on the way over here, after beating off this guy who wanted me to deliver his newspapers ( I politely refused you know, I'm not into violence), I passed a boat load of businesses run by the connected generation .  They all appear to be operating much like Heidi and Pamela.  Smart women.

No, the final stop on my visit today is not some wild Australian Aborigine.  Although I have often wondered how someone could apply the six degrees of separation and find one of these bush folks.  Pamela says I should absolutely stop by Kristie T's place of biz .  What a great way to end my trip - landing on Kristie's words on gratitude.

Thanks for riding along on the Schwinn with me today! 

Comments

[Troy]

Great idea, David. I blog surf like this all the time, but have never recorded the results. I think I will give it a try. It sounds like fun.

Thanks for the link and much thanks for the congrats!

[Joy]

This is a VERY cool idea Dave. Are you going to make it a regular thing? I think you should. Thanks.

[Dave]

Your welcome Troy!

Pretty good idea Joy. Thanks!

[Rhea]

I love anything having to do with the Six Degrees concept. Very, very cool!

[Dave]

Thanks for stopping in Rhea! Since reading the Tipping Point in 2002, I've become a prisoner of everything Six Degress.

Here's a challenge for you: Try and get six degrees AWAY from Seth Godin. I love Seth and his point of view. But I think a deeper understanding can happen when one can get into 7 plus degrees.

[Rhea]

Oh, yes! "The Tipping Point." That's only one of my favorite books ever. I've already read it twice.

[Anna Farmery]

Thanks for the shout out for The Engaging Brand - much appreciated. Made me smile when you mentioned Pam as interviewing her on my podcast show this week...small, small world! You have jolted me as well to update my blogroll - haven't done it for ages, thanks for the motivation....

[Heidi]

Yes, thanks for the shout out! This is exactly how social networking works--we all help each other and muse over what we read. :-)

[dave]

Your welcome Heidi! Thanks for stopping by. If you have a chance, check out http://www.joyfuljubilantlearning.com/joyful_jubilant_learning/ This venture promises to be social networking at its finest.