All 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:

1. Kimberly Bock

2. Shana Albert

3. Scott Marshall

4. David Lind

5. Barbara Doduk

6. James Chartrand

7. Greg Davies

8. Ash Matheson

9. Steve Spalding

10. Sabrina Fowler-Ferguson Harnish

11. Colin Walker

12. Nick James

13. Jason Falls

14. Lisa Rousseau

15. Meg Fowler

16. Ruud Hein

17. Bill at Site Insights

18. Sterling (Chip) Camden

19. Michael Rawdon

20. Kristen Munson

Don’t let me down….  

My cool social media acquaintance Kristen tagged me with a meme (see the post title) so I decided to respond. I was tagged with this once before and responded. I was tagged a second time (I think) but I forgot to respond to that. And so, I’m responding to both Kristen and blogger X with this.

In keeping with the theme of Broadcasting Brain, I’m trying to restrict these 8 random things to be about communications and social media (broadly speaking – I’m including a couple of other creative endeavours):

1. In elementary school I played a shepherd boy in the annual Christmas concert. Unfortunately, my fly was open during the whole performance. At least I had clear underwear on.

2. I won second place an oratorical contest in sixth grade, then never competed again.

3. I gave a horrible, horrible speech (this wasn’t a competition) when I was student council president in my senior year of high school. I started it by saying “Welcome back students to another fun year” in a Stephen Wright-ish voice. It was awful. I tried to make up for it by winning 3rd place in a Liars contest later that year.

4. I once set off a panic at work by using the phrase “no showstoppers” in an E-Mail to some colleagues in France, who apparently misinterpreted the E-Mail to mean that there were problems on our project. Oops.

5. In 1994 I wrote an entry for Project Galactic Guide (sort of a real world version of the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy) about the longest covered bridge in the world.

6. Also in 1994, I wrote a silly little story/thing called “The Bobby Chronicles” that was somehow published online and was listed in John Labovitz’s e-zine-list. I appear to have lost any electronic copies of that document, but here’s what I submitted for the E-Zine listing:

“Tales and commentary about the lives of Generation X types trapped in rural New Brunswick, Canada. More often than not, the zine will be short, mostly factual, and not terribly serious. “Bobby” has several meanings, including ‘redneck’. This zine is -not- written from a redneck’s point of view. A stop on one of the dirt roads feeding into the info highway.”

It was an inside joke and you had to be there to get it, I guess. However, I was interviewed on the radio in 1994 or 1995 because of this E-Zine, which was quite bizarre at the time.

7. I used to belong to amateur press associations for many years. One of them, APA Centauri, is still active today.

8. I used to be part of a group that did some really small-scale improv a la “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” A few people still remember those times with great fondness to this very day.

So, in the spirit of this meme idea, I’m hereby tagging Nick, Steve, and Jeff.  Have at it, guys!