Meme: the one thing that I must say to the entire world
meme April 20th. 2008, 9:39pmAll right, brains. I’m creating a meme and I compel all of you fine readers and bloggers to join in.
The name of this meme is “the one thing that I MUST say to the entire world.”
It’s very simple: you have up to 150 characters to say a message to the world. You can do it in your blog, microblog, tumblelog, or whatever electronic medium. Please link back to this post so I can try to track the activity of this meme - trackbacks would be cool, too.
Here’s my one thing, as an example:
Leaders: accept that you are sometimes wrong. Do not suppress dissent. Publicly acknowledge your errors. Then work like mad to make things right or at least better.
In the desire to spread this well and good, I’m going to tag 20 people.
When you respond to the meme, please pass it on to at least 10 people.
Super bonus incentive:
If I get at least 100 responses to this meme, then I’ll volunteer to create an eBook and publish everyone’s responses (at least the ones that I can find!), with a link of their choice (i.e. blog URL, social networking page, etc.) included as well as their name.
Just think: we can spread good ideas while letting the world know about us!
So… here’s who I am tagging:
Don’t let me down…. 
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April 21st, 2008 at 8:45 am
Great idea Mark! Happy to oblige. I need a while to do it, as I am not feeling so well right this minute. (booo) But I’m definitely in.
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April 21st, 2008 at 9:29 am
@SpostareDuro - excellent - thanks!
April 21st, 2008 at 11:26 am
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April 21st, 2008 at 12:06 pm
If you weren’t sure when you saw the pingback..yup..its the same article posted on both sites.
I’d really like to see something come of this.
April 21st, 2008 at 12:18 pm
@spostareduro- excellent!
April 21st, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Cool idea Mark! Now I have to think of something profound to say and that could be harder than it appears.
April 21st, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Great idea, Mark. I shall endeavour to oblige, my good fellow.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:50 pm
@Kristen, @Nick - bring it on!
April 21st, 2008 at 7:27 pm
K, Mark…I’m doing it…
April 21st, 2008 at 7:39 pm
@Sammy_sunshine - that’s the spirit!
April 21st, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Hey Mark. You don’t have to post this comment..just trying to figure out if something went wrong with the pingback from my other site..Did the second one get caught by Akismet?
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April 22nd, 2008 at 1:30 am
I predict: fail
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:24 am
@Anon David - the beauty of your comment, of course, is if you’re proven to be wrong, we won’t be able to attribute the comment back to you.
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:27 am
Will do. Gives me something non work related to do for a change:)
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April 22nd, 2008 at 11:13 am
@Lisa - go for it!
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:32 pm
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I just responded to Sterling’s tag over
here.
April 25th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
@Ole Phat Stu - thanks!
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