Declare Yourself an A-List Blogger

You thought for people to call you an A-lister you will have to work hard and build your blog into a noticeable name? Honestly, I used to share your opinion but that has changed today when I found out that to become an A-lister you can simply join a new blog network called exactly “A-List Bloggers Network”. That’s it, no more hard work involved, really.

The people behind the network mention that it “debuted last week at ASAE with a dozen or so contributors” (all of them A-listers, I believe, though I have only found one familiar name among the contributors). Right now a simple search on Google does not produce any sites linking to alistbloggers.org so the A-listers do not seem to have received any visibility for their network as of yet.

To my disappointment the letter “A” in the name does not stand for what we are accustomed to call A-listers. Instead, here “A” stands for “associations” and the network is supposed to make “association leaders think” by publishing posts related to various professional associations and organizations. Right now all the posts I looked through are actually republished from main blogs of the 14 contributors that have chosen to join the network with this pretty strange name for whatever reasons they may have.

All the pages of the blog invite everyone to join so I believe in the near future everyone will be able to easily declare him/herself an A-lister by joining the network and contributing posts related to some associations from time to time. But unfortunately the instructions on how to join seem to be terribly incomplete and lack the instructions on where to apply so it is not clear what the criteria to select A-listers will be.

But if we believe that a name chosen for a project can determine the project’s future, this one is absolutely doomed to succeed. Whatever it eventually develops into, it will be interesting to see what success bloggers can achieve by declaring themselves A-listers from the very beginning.