It’s now EIGHT years ago that Denise Nesbitt from across the pond in England created a meme called ABC Wednesday. People, literally from around the world, post an item – pictures, poems, essays – that in some way describe each letter of the alphabet, in turn. I’ve been participating since the letter K in Round 5.
Denise recruited a team of her followers to do some of the intro writing and visiting, which eventually included me because doing it all was too exhausting.
Three years ago, she ceded the role of administrator to me. This means that I assign who reads which posts, making sure somebody is writing the introductions (and writing them myself, when necessary) and inserting the link that allows everyone to participate.
The Netiquette for the site is this:
1. Post something on your non-commercial blog/webpage having something to do with the letter of the week. Use your imagination. Put a link to ABC Wednesday in your post and/or put up the logo.
2. Come to the ABC Wednesday site and link the SPECIFIC link to the Linky thing. It’ll be available around 4 p.m., Greenwich Mean Time each Tuesday, which is 11 a.m. or noon in the Eastern part of the United States.
3. Try and visit at least 5 other participants, and comment on their posts. The more sites you do visit, the more comments you will probably get.
Now, as the cliché goes, all good things must come to an end, and Denise and Roger have decided that ABC Wednesday should conclude, for a variety of reasons. The good news is that it won’t be until the end of Round 20, or four more trips through the alphabet.
We have discovered that there are folks who participate in a round, then drop out for a bit. Others start a round, but don’t complete. We think this will be an opportunity to invite those folks to participate once again.
Or maybe you have friends who have THOUGHT about tying ABC Wednesday but have not. THIS would be a good time to start.
Here’s a deep, dark secret: you don’t HAVE to participate every week. I think it’s advantageous to do so – it generates a lot of comments for me, but then again, I visit practically everyone who posts.
Bloggers, consider giving ABC Wednesday a try, if this sounds interesting. The A comes up the week of July 13, so you have some time to think about it. Write to me a rogerogreen (AT) gmail (DOT) com for more details.