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I used to dread friends and family days at my sister’s church and my mom’s. Since I’m family, I was automatically on the invite list and I got dragged to church with a whole bunch of other people’s friends and family who hadn’t been to church since the last friends and family day. Particularly cocky preachers would take the opportunity to lecture their visitors for never going to church. I would only half-listen since I was chasing a then-toddler Jon Alex up and down the aisles as he was on the hunt for snacks and juice. Man, I’m glad that’s over. I’d never do that to anybody.

Except, er, um: today is friends and family day at lovelinks!

Invite a friend who’s been on the outskirts of lovelinks, kinda curious what it’s all about, but too preoccupied with other things to care that much about it. Who cares? We care. We’ve seen firsthand the community that springs up around regular lovelinkers. More than a couple of you had that one friend visiting your blog for months when no one else even knew about it. You linked with lovelinks and—bam—you’re hanging out at the water cooler on Twitter looking all cool and in the know.

Share that today with someone who needs it.

They don’t need to follow me on Twitter, but they need to follow somebody who tweets the lovelinks. How about this: make sure the friends you bring are following you. That should do it.

Tell them that it’s also a good idea to comment on the participating blogs. Just linking up will get their blogs a few extra hits, but the goal is to turn hits into community. That’s my main problem with Stumble Upon, I’ve figured out. Receiving 50 hits at 10 seconds each isn’t really my thing. Five visitors who stick around for 10 minutes, that’s more like it. Anyway, making a day of it on the various lovelinks blogs is like a seaside picnic without having to wait 25 years to inherit your favorite aunt’s cottage. We’re available for immediate move in.

I’ll have a useful, fun surprise for whoever brings in the most lovelinks virgins with a minimum of three by Friday. Ask them to leave a note in comments letting me know who invited them. Snacks and juice for the antsy ones.

Lovelinks #28 is open for submissions.



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