Bloggers meet in the real world

Mrs. Heimlich Mortimer

Noon tomorrow there is a few of us local bloggers that will be grabbing some coffee at Liberty Cafe and hanging at Happy Delusions, both to be found at the top of South Third Street in downtown Renton. Randy Corman from Renton Community Update, Rich Zwicker from Renton425, Lynar Deluca from AllaboutRenton, Mary Clymer of Happy Delusions Weblog and hopefully Freakazoid Freddy from Displaced Hipster's Guide to Renton and representing The Picaroon will be Mrs. Mortimer, our Blog Monitor. She won't be able to stay for too long, however - Mortimer needs his hourly dose of prune juice these days to keep regular, and there is always the daily dusting to be done, and the cats to be hand fed and the laundry to be folded - well, you get the picture.

Renton Blog, I blog about Renton, blogging, blogger, shoot me a Renton glance will ya!!

Okay - so here's the story. I am at a meeting with other local Renton bloggers and users of Social Media at the Renton Historical Museum and a PR guy in the realm of corporate communications is also there, wild fingers flying on the Blackberry as we introduce ourselves to one another. Eric Berto aka GeekGiant, writer also of a techie blog, quickly types in Renton and Blog into the search engine he is using and my blog, The Picaroon, is no where to be found. Just a listing for some guy writing occasionally about real estate and Renton, and then something from the Seattlest(??) from 2006. WTF?

Luckily, Eric is highly approachable and I corner him, hit him with my ubiquitous Picaroon business card and ask him what I need to do to remedy this - like, NOW. I am still on a huge learning curve here in the blogosphere, so when he is telling me about the meta tags and the hypertext links, I am sorta there and racking my brain as to where I am still going wrong. But I am thinking - okay, go home, do your research, hit him up with that email he said you could send, see what you can do.

So, here it is - a shameless bit of self promotion in the world of BLOGS. I exist, I write, I write about Renton. I promise that in the weeks and months to come, I will make this process of finding me and this fine Renton Blog easier. I strive to try to bring home the Renton bacon to all of you. Or, at least, just my small slice of Renton life and a keen view from my home frying pan.

Ah, hey Eric - I hope you don't mind man - just trying to use the great tips you gave me and put them to good use.