Pay it Forward

Submitted by admin on April 8, 2010 - 9:22 am

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Bonjour!!

On a recent surf through the internet – I stumbled across a great idea organized by blogger Victoria of SFGirlbyBay called ‘Blog It Forward.’ I wanted to join, but they had already maxed out at 300 participants, and back in February, so what can I say? A day late and a dollar short?!

Not hardly!!

Life is what we create, so I got inspired and decided to organize a ‘Blog it Forward’ inspired event of my own – with a twist. And here’s what I’m thinking . . . .

1) Wouldn’t it be nice if I met some new great bloggers (I love all of you I currently know – you’re beyond FABULOUS!)

2) Wouldn’t it be great to share the love and readership around for all you fans of Duchess and intro you to some great new people too?

3) Wouldn’t it be nice if hope and love were the message of the day – and so our theme for this Duchess blogging experiment was to do something nice?

And an idea was born . . .

SO HERE IS THE SCOOP . . .

If you are a) female, b) a blogger, and c) looking to seriously participate in my Duchess event . . . then email me NOW!

jill@theduchessguide.com

Yep, that’s me.

And what I want to do is get a massive group of us together, organize us into groups of 10, hand out the group assignments at the end of the month, and assign each group a day.

What you will do is, on your group’s assigned day:

1) Everyone will use the same blog post title, ‘Random Acts of Blogging’

2) On your assigned day you will commit one senseless act of kindness for a total stranger – then blog about it.

3) At the end of your blog post you will reference the other people in your group by linking to their blogs in your post (so that your readers can see other bloggers random acts of kindness for the day)

4) That’s it . . .

I think it’s a really fun way to cross-pollinate readers, inspire each other and others and give back to a pretty fucking awesome world we live in . . . imagine if we get enough people participating (and I’m spreading out the date assignments for each group so it will go on for several weeks) how many senseless acts of kindness we can share!!

It will cost you nothing, I’m having a badge developed for your blog – for everyone who commits to participation, and there is a MAX of $10 for your random act of kindness, although money is not even necessary. It can be buying someone’s coffee in line behind you, carrying groceries, helping another woman with a baby while in line – it is almost better if it’s free and there are NO LIMITS to the great, free, charitable things you can do. The only caveat is that it has to be a stranger and you have to share with everyone. Maybe you’ll let someone cut in traffic (if you live in LA this is a HUGE act of kindness!) or share some of your talents with a stranger. Honestly, I’m not here to tell you what – in fact this is why this is so EXCITING to me is I can’t wait to hear all your what’s – but I think it’s a great idea. . . .

So again, this is truly open to all female bloggers, so email me, spread the word, ask your friends and favorite bloggers to sign-up too, it’s going to be AWESOME!!!

email me again at: jill@theduchessguide.com

Look forward to all of us doing something amazing here!!!

(Also be sure to check out the site for the original ‘Blog it Forward’ idea from Victoria at SFGirlbyBay l – HERE – it’s a beautiful Site and a Great Idea!!)

XoXo

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