The other day I signed on as a search guide on the new assisted-search engine chacha.com, where guides help searchers find what they're looking for. One of the keywords I chose for myself was "bookcrossing." I was a bit surprised it was even in the system given that you can only search on what has been searched already, but there it was. So I added it to my list of topics.
Subsequently, I received training searches (from other experienced guides who were randomly assigned the bookcrossing topic to ask about). And, since none of the guides really knew what it was, the question was invariably, "What's bookcrossing?" So I got really good at calling up bookcrossing.com, bookcrossing.livejournal.com, and the Wikipedia entry on Bookcrossing really fast, along with making a copy-pastable text blurb, to answer that question. So far, every guide who's trained me has been really impressed, with a number of them saying, "Hey, that's something I'd really enjoy!" So, that's me: popularizing bookcrossing one chacha.com guide at a time. Here's more information on chacha.com, from my journal. http://www.terrania.us/journal/2006/09/doing-cha-cha.html (If anyone who is good at searching would like an invitation to be a chacha guide themselves, email me off-list; I'll be happy to send you one as long as you're serious about wanting to do it. The pay rate isn't huge, but if you're going to be sitting in front of the computer all day anyway it's kind of a neat thing to do.) Have you told a friend today? http://bookcrossing.com/tellafriend Archives and email list settings: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCrossing Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCrossing/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCrossing/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
