Weekly Challenge 3--What's Your Tag Line?

[Michele Martin]

You've probably heard of the elevator speech--the 30 second speech that you should be ready to give to anyone to describe who you are and what you do.

This week's challenge is to come up with the blog equivalent of a 30-second elevator speech--a tag line. Your tag line should help us know instantly what your blog is about. It should also be something that tells us why your blog is unique--it should grab us. I'm also going to say that it can't be any longer than a sentence, and not a long sentence either. Your goal is to be able to capture the essence of both your blog and you as a blogger in that tag line.

When you have your tag line, come back here and share it with the rest of us. If you have one already, put it in comments here and let us tell you what we think of it.

As always, have fun!

[Robin]

I guess I'll go first. Someone has to do it. The tag line is what follows the colon. I guess that's obvious, right?

A Poem a Day: Writers in the Schools (WITS) Celebrates Kids, in the...

Big Window: A Quick Glimpse at Something Beautiful

The Other Mother: Letters from the Outposts of Lesbian Parenting

[Christine Martell]

Robin,
A Poem a Day: Writers in the Schools (WITS) Celebrates Kids:
.....really like the celebrates kids, especially for a poetry blog

Big Window: A Quick Glimpse at Something Beautiful
.....Didn't know what this was, and I being the visual type, expected photography

The Other Mother: Letters from the Outposts of Lesbian Parenting
.....Love this one; first for the other, and second for the outpost. So captures what I have heard of the experience of lesbian mothering

[Robin]

One got cut off, for some reason. It's actually:

A Poem a Day: Writers in the Schools (WITS) Celebrates Kids in their Own Words.

[Michele Martin]

I like that one a lot. "Kids in their Own Words"--good.

[Christine Martell]

As I thought about this, I began to wonder about my tag......and whether it's more about my business or my blog? And can I even separate the two? Anyway

VisualsSpeak: Inspiring communication through visuals

[Robin]

Hi Christine, I like your blog. One thought on your tag line is that you probably don't need the use the word "visuals" twice. Maybe the second time it could be imagery or design? I like the words "inspiring" and "speak" more than the words "communication" and "visuals." My 2 cents. For free! Robin

[Christine Martell]

The communication kind of formal. So off to my favorite word idea machine, The Visual Thesaurus. You can see the cool word map you get from it attached below.
How about: Inspiring connection through images? Inspiring connection through photographs?

[Cammy Bean]

"Inspiring connection through images" sounds more poetic (and inspiring) than "through photographs"...

[Michele Martin]

I like "inspiring connection through images"--gives you more flexibility.

[Robin]

Have you seen this tool? It's similar to the one you used only more expansive. And more wobbly! Here's the link: http://www.visuwords.com/

[Christine Martell]

No, I haven't seen it before. Thanks, I love to find new visual plaything, it really helps to expand my thinking. Got to go play with it...

[Simon Brown]

Hi Michelle, I've decided that I'm going to start a Blog to collaborate in writing a conference paper.

The Blog will be posted at the VeMentoring network, and will point to a Wiki at the TAFE Qld VeLearning Network (passwrod=VLN).

The paper's deadline is 13th October, and the conference presentation 16th November.

I've decided to Blog at Ning because of the active community here.

The tagline is The VeM Voyage : Journey to a Statewide Learning Community