Problogger is worried about passive readers. I was too, so I asked all my readers to de-lurk. A lot of them did 
But problogger says de-lurking isn’t enough, your readers need to act and they must be called into action by you (okay, by me, but you get what I mean).
For his challenge today, he offers a solid list of ways to get readers to act, including asking them to donate to a charity, purchasing a product you support, writing a comment (de-lurking post covered that!), hiring you for services or even asking readers to visit someone elses blog.
So I had to think about it. I get once chance – one shot to get you to listen and ask for you to do something. But what is it that I want you to do? Well, I could use it selfishly and ask you to donate to my goal to get to BlogWorld 2009 (it’s that green widget below recommended blogs) or to ask that you send out a tweet, recommending my work to someone you know (or hiring me yourself). But I trust my readers and know that if you could help, you would be (or at least I want to believe that so I will!).
So, I decided to use my ‘ask for action’ in a way that would benefit someone else (hopefully a lot of someone elses).
Here is your call to action:
Post a link in your comment to a blog or twitter profile of someone that you respect and enjoy reading, but that doesn’t have a lot of traffic/recognition. Tell us a bit about them, and why they deserve us to visit them. Then, visit at least 1 other commenter’s recommended person.
Lights! Camera! ACTION!
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Kirsten
Kirsten –
I’ve enjoyed reading your recaps of the Problogger 31 days program. I was doing well with it, then had to travel to be with my parents, and lost the handle on keeping up with the program.
I’d suggest that people visit Jan Harness’ Creative Instigation blog: http://creativeinstigation.blogspot.com
Jan is a great creative, strategic partner and brings an intersting perspective to all types of topics. Today, she counsels readers to spend some creative time with a dandelion.
Take care, and keep up the great work.
Mike Brown (@Brainzooming)
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Good Post. I need to try to get my readers to delurk as well. I’m getting mad traffic, according to google analytics anyway.
I too fell off the 31 days of to a better blog wagon. Just hard to keep up with at the moment.
Anywho, I’d suggest people visit http://www.twitter.com/joshdurham.
He’s a good friend of mine—very opinionated, but also very creative. He’s not afraid to speak his mind—which is a trait I admire.
Like I said, good post. Keep ‘em coming.
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On second thought, that headline does sound dirty. I bet you get a lot of traffic to this post.
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I thoroughly enjoy Tim Siedell’s Twitter feed. You can find it at http://twitter.com/badbanana.
He’s funny and topical all rolled into one. I often laugh out loud when he updates.
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One thing I love to do is highlight other people. It’s why I started my #blogfind in my blog. So this idea is fantatic.
I would recommend
http://rantsmusingstypewriters.blogspot.com/
He’s a newer blogger, and extremely talented with writing. He’s view on the world around him usually has me thinking and laughing.
Rebecca
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[...] way to learn. I have written a few ‘questioning’ posts in the past (I’ve asked readers to act, and test their creativity) and almost every post I write ends in a question. Actually, now that I [...]
I just recommended someone to you on FriendFeed so was pleasantly surprised to find this. I won’t say ‘great minds..’, but glad we’re on the same wavelength at least some of the time.
I recommend Peg Corwin of SCOREChicago. Not only is she social networking/marketing/business savvy, she’s also one of nicest people you’ll ever meet, online or off. http://scorechicago.wordpress.com/