Tuesday Chatter: Promote Thyself!

No writerly post today, so you’re invited to share a link to your blog, or to a blog you like

arrr, Mateys!

(or both, but no more than one of each) on the thread.

Bonus round: I’ll check in here this evening, look at any links that are shared while I’m working today, and think about featuring one or more of them in the post here on Thursday.

Have a great day!

Mississippians are working for Marriage Equality tomorrow. I’m supporting them. So can you.

This is from the Campaign for Southern Equality’s blog:

On Tuesday, March 25th in Jackson, Mississippi same-sex couples will apply for marriage licenses as part of the WE DO Campaign. Jessica and Amber are one of the those couples that will bravely walk into the Hinds County Courthouse and ask to be treated as full and equal citizens.

This is happening at 9:30 tomorrow. Here’s a direct link to the post. It includes a photo of Jessica and Amber, and a statement from Jessica.

If you wish to help, here are some things you can do:

1. Send these couples a message of support through the Southern Equality website.

2. Share the status update from their Facebook page announcing this event.

3. Watch their Facebook page and @CSElive tomorrow and share the relevant status updates and Tweets.

4. If you can’t be online while this is going on but would like to help, don’t sweat it. Keep in mind that a single social media share is only seen by a small portion of its potential audience. It’s helpful to share updates or write about it tomorrow evening, the next day, or even later. That’s how we keep ideas in play and find new readers for stories once we’ve done all we can with a single blog.

I hope everyone has a great week. I’ll have more on this later; we’ll also have plenty of our usual fare this week, as well.

Image via Southern Equality Facebook page.

Surprise Post!

I’m just going to put this here, because you need to see it, and so does everyone else. The Monster will be participating in this event, and I hope others of you will join in.

Our Thunderclap posted. Now I share this link for two days.

Our Thunderclap posted a few minutes ago with 112 supporters, which means it was Tweeted and posted to a lot more than 112 Facebook and Tumblr accounts.

I am spending the next two days sharing this link to Sam’s Indiegogo page, because he gets to keep anything we can raise for him between now and then. You can view the trailer for Rolling with Kings at the link. But not to worry, I have regular posts lined up, too.

It was not easy to get 112 supporters for this in 8 days, and I will have a lot to say about how we went about it and what we learned, eventually.

A big thanks to all our supporters.