I never thought that I would use that first title word in a post. It is one I usually avoid. But it is the name of a blog created by Crystal who posts from Lake Horn, Mississippi. Crystal has three kids, but asserts that she cusses too much to be classified as a mommy blogger.
But she wants to go to the BlogHer conference in Chicago. For that reason, she has beseeched readers to support her in the Scrapblog-BlogHer contest, which has a grand prize of a free trip to the conference and she offers a special reward that sounds just a tad racy:
"The more views I get here, the more chance I have of getting it. And you all know what that means: I will thoroughly embarrass myself and then throw dignity to the wind when I report all the gory details to you. So, each click counts. And if I get it, I will tell you all what happened to me last night."
The team over at Scrapblog tells me that Crystal has driven more traffic by far--over 1000 clickthrus in three days, than any other individual. But this is a contest. I can't wait to see what happens when some other contest aspirant outdoes her.
A few days ago, I competed with another speaker at Starting the Conversation, a Social Media Club workshop.
To get more people to register than Deb Schultz, who offered folks a free drink after the workshop, I offered attendees a copy of Naked Conversations with a $20 bill as the bookmark. As it turned out Deb and I tied and Jeremiah Owyang blew right past us by one and he hadn't offered any bribes.
Thank God, we did not have to compete with Ms. Crystal. I can only imagine what she would have offered.
