RSS Thursday Thirteen #4: 13 Reasons to tell everyone about Markeroni
Filed in Thursday ThirteenAugust is Tell Everyone About Markeroni month, a concerted effort to tell the world about our neat little corner of the internet!
ETA: (if you do kindly TEAMM with us, please try to give a link to our home page: http://www.markeroni.com because this is the blog, not the home page. :)
In that spirit, then, here are thirteen reasons why Markeroni is cool and we’d be so grateful if you could tell your friends and/or blog about the site.
- You can find information about historical markers and historic landmarks in Australia, the USA, Canada and the British Isles.
- We already have 80,000 sites in our database that you can find, and more are being added almost daily. (There are two numbers associated with Markeroni: the number of landmarks we have already found, and the number we have input for you to find.)
- You can take part in our shared blog. More places to write–yay!
- We’re friendly and mellow and don’t take ourselves too seriously. Markeroni is for anyone interested in history, who takes part in treasure hunting games, or who likes to have a nice day out.
- You can get cute little stars after your name, like merit badges, for logging landmarks. What’s not to love? :-P
- Our stated goal is to eventually be able to donate 10% of our profits to historic preservation. We need more members to reach that goal.
- Eventually we want to expand to include landmarks everywhere in the world. Won’t that be cool?
- Lots of families take part with their family memberships.
- You get to run around the countryside wielding stuffed penguins, monkeys, Russian dolls and a variety of other mascots. (See: told you we don’t take ourselves too seriously.)
- It’s the most fun you can have with historical markers. Really. Trust us on this.
- If you have a competitive spirit you can be all competitivey. If you don’t, you can just landmark-hunt for the sheer joy and interestingness of what you learn.
- You really start to get a sense of your local history as you start to visit museums and piece together the individual snippets of history.
- You get to go to some really cool places, like this and and this and this.
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- Bending the Twigs
- Momma Writes About Books
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- Nancy Bond
- Vixen’s Den
- One Green Bus
- Around The Island
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20 Comments, Comment or Ping
SusieJ
This, I never knew. Thank you –
Aug 1st, 2007
JennieBoo
Well, I’m off to share….
Thanks for sharing.
Happy TT!
Aug 1st, 2007
Damozel
A great idea for a site—I didn’t realize—and very useful information in the T13. Good luck with this endeavor!
Aug 1st, 2007
pussreboots
When the kids are older. I just can’t commit to another site right now. LOL. Happy TT.
Aug 1st, 2007
Susan Helene Gottfried
What a cool thing you’ve got going here. I’ll definitely have to come back and check it out. Maybe even join.
Aug 1st, 2007
Suprina
Learn something new everyday…
Happy TT!
Aug 1st, 2007
Lori
Great list and thanks for the info:)
Aug 1st, 2007
Crimson Wife
Okay, I feel like a complete idiot, but what exactly is it that you do? I read your TT and the blurb on the “about” page but I’m still confused. Obviously it has something to do with landmarks but I have no idea what “snarfing” is…
Aug 1st, 2007
Marina
Nice plug for the site! I’ll get on my “chore list” as soon as the babysitter gets here tomorrow.
Happy T13!
Aug 1st, 2007
JHS
Clever!
Aug 1st, 2007
Milan - zzz
I like #7 since I’m belonging to that “everywhere in the world” part of the world. Love the idea & will come back for sure :)
Cheers!
Aug 2nd, 2007
Nancy Bond
Super idea…I’ll check it out!
Aug 2nd, 2007
TCM
SusieJ, JennieBoo, Damozel, Susan, Suprina, Lori, Marina, and JHS — thank you for stopping by! And, you’re welcome. Happy TT. :)
Nancy–welcome! *grin*
Milan: indeed! There was a point at which I had to say “enough!” because there’s only so much one person and a small team of volunteers can do. It will probably take a year or so before we get to that stage.
Crimson Wife: no, not at all! Not sure if you went to the main page (http://www.markeroni.com) as opposed to the blog page (here), but generally it boils down to this:
Note that sometimes you find the historical markers before we do, in which case you have to request them. We can’t always type fast enough. ;)
pussreboots: grin! You could always just lurk. ;)
Aug 2nd, 2007
Vixen
Here I just added you to my blogroll and I didn’t even know that August was Tell Everyone About Markeroni Month! Or did I????
My TT is up too.
http://vixensden.wordpress.com/2007/08/02/thursday-13-6/
Aug 2nd, 2007
beautyredefined
I just thought of another great reason to tell your local friends about Markeroni - more twins!
Aug 2nd, 2007
Mathew James Didier
Sharing WILL happen!
Aug 2nd, 2007
TCM
Vixen: That’s so cool! I have of course returned the favor. :)
beautyredefined: Yay for twins! :)
Aug 2nd, 2007
TCM
Mathew: thank you so much :)
Aug 2nd, 2007
Robin
So is this like geocaching but for historical markers? That sounds fun. I’ll have to look into this the next time we’re traveling in one of the countries you listed.
Aug 5th, 2007
TCM
Robin: A little bit, I guess! Though when you find new sites you can add them yourself or get them added. One day we hope to add the rest of the world, but that’s just too big and unmanageable right now. *grin*
Aug 8th, 2007
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