Dwayne Melancon over at Genuine Curiosity has a great post entitled “Tinkering in the Garage of my Mind.” The general idea of the post is to develop conversations with people that you meet on airplanes, Starbucks and generally anyplace in public. His post is further amplified by the positive experience he had when going through Lisa Haneberg’s “2 Weeks 2 A Breakthrough” process in which he was encouraged to talk about his goals with everyone he encountered, and even enlist their help. That was way out of his comfort zone, but yielded powerful results.
I really like this idea but I thought of an interesting twist. How about handing out business cards for your favorite blogs to people that you meet? It would be easy to create cards with either one name on them or a group of names. Can you imagine the look on someones face when you hand them a “Slacker Manager” card? How about an “Open Loops” card with Berts cool logo on it. People would be sure to click on a Ho‘ohana card from Talking Story just to find out what it means.
You could even hold up a few and have someone pick one like a card trick… pick a card… any card..
I have learned so much from blogs and I realize so few people know about them. When I mention that I blog, most people don’t have a clue what I’m talking about. I think this would be a great way to introduce people to the wonderful world of weblogging.
I have some blank business cards sitting on my desk… maybe I’ll fire up publisher and give it a go…
Let me know what you think…
