Blog Pack Anyone?
Ever heard of a “Blog Pack”? I hadn’t either until yesterday. The basic concept is that people with similar interests all band together in blog-land to help each other out. It is essentially a bloggers networking process. Through this process you join a group that creates a feed file for your RSS Reader called an OPML file (don’t ask, I can’t explain how it works…but it does). You import the file feed into your reader and all the blog feeds from those who join the pack are then created in a separate folder for you to investigate, read, and participate in. This process is intended to build your personal network and introduce you to some like-minded people in your area of interest.
Michael at Remarkablogger wrote an article on the Blog Pack concept and Chris Garrett initiated one this week. Read their articles and as of this morning there is still time to join if you are interested.
In the short time since joining, I have discovered some interesting new blogs that I will likely continue to follow and of course there are ones I will purge from my reader in short order. At this point I already see the benefit for my blogging network as my readers are up and so is my Twitter Feed, so it is a worthwhile venture. I anticipate the benefits will continue going forward as the community develops and I will comment further after some more intereaction with this process.
If you have had a positive or negative experience with a Blog Pack I welcome you to share your story too…
Filed under: Blogging, Branding, Networking | Tagged: Blog Pack, Blogging, Marketing, Networking
Thanks for the mention
It’s worth pointing out that nobody expects members to read all the backlog of posts, follow every twitter conversation 
It’s more an opportunity to discover, as you have, those connections, great posts and hidden gems we might have overlooked in the past, and at the same time do each other favors such as stumbles, bookmarks etc 
You are welcome Chris and thanks for the initiative to start the Pack. I agree completely. One couldn’t possibly read all these new blogs but it has been an easy way to find some interesting new bloggers and expand the reach of my own.