Entrecard – nice little game

I’ve mentioned that I’m using Entrecard to promote my blog before.  You’ll notice that in my sidebar just under the subscribe button I’ve put an extra widget linking to a neat little game Joe Tech is running.  It works just like a poker/slot machine and its a little bit of fun.  I’ve played twice and so far won over 100 credits.

And while on the subject of Entrecard, just after I posted the bit above, Andrew tagged me in the Chain Drop 8 above the fold meme for Entrecarders.  This is actually quite topical as I was thinking earlier on today when doing a run of Entrecard drops how much easier it is to do when the card is “above the fold”.  By “above the fold” I mean visible in the initial screenful of the page on my screen.  That makes it so much easier to find the Entrecard, and means I don’t have to go scrolling down the page, or worse still, having to search for the widget in among 50 other widgets in the sidebar – believe me, the Entrecard can be damn hard to find in some cases.  Yes, having it near the top does suit chain droppers better, and they may not bother reading your blog, but hey thats just a fact of life.  Just because you have it near the bottom of your page doesn’t make the “drop and run” people any more likely to read your content … just harder for them to achieve their mission of getting maximum drops as quickly as possible.

Now for me to tag 8 bloggers with their cards above the fold.  Here goes:

• By The Sea
• About Every Little Thing – StickFigureLis
• A Little Piece of Me – Claire (and Willy) … and if you go there today my card is there (woo!!!)
• Jamaipanese.Com
• Joe Tech – of course, I should mention his cool poker machine game again
• Gorilla Sushi – funny blog, and have advertised on my blog a few times, so I thought I’d throw a link your way
• Tina at Mummifiedx5 – a fellow Aussie blogger
• Andrew at Get a Real Blog – ha, ha, chucking the ball back to you …. now find another 8!!

Now I’m not a great meme person, I usually ignore them, so don’t feel bad if you don’t continue this meme.  I just liked this one, thought it was a bit of fun, and why not spread the link love.