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Spoil-A-Blogger recently launched. The site set up to match bloggers into pairs, sort of like a Secret Pal. Each person gets to spoil the other blog partner. Now the pairs, as I understand it, are anonymous.
Spoil-a-Blogger!

If you have never played Secret Pals before, let me take a minute to tell you what you are getting yourself into... Now, I don't want to scare you, but there are some things you should know, and there is some prep work you are going to have to do. But don't worry! It's worth all the work! Now, lets get down to business!
Basics:

What do I need to give Gwen in order to participate?

Gwen needs your postal address. Don't worry. She isn't psycho, neither is your secret pal. Then Gwen needs your blog url. The person who gets you wants to read all about you! Gwen also needs TWO email addresses. One address is your permanent email address; you know the one you read all the time. Your secret pal will use this one when they write to you. The second one is a secret email address, that doesn't have your name associated with it. This one you will use to write to your secret pal (the person you are sending stuff to.) This way, you can remain anonymous.

Gwen wants to see this in the email:

* Your Name
* Your URL
* Your Mailing Address
* Your public email address
* Your secret email address

How the heck does this work, and who is it that is not supposed to know my identity?

You are keeping your identity secret from the person you are sending to. This is how the whole system works.

If there were only 4 participants, ‘A', ‘B', ‘C' and ‘D' I would have matched them up as such

A sends to B
B sends to C
C sends to D
D sends to A

If you were participant ‘B' you would know who ‘C' was but you would keep your identity secret from them. ‘A' would send to you but you wouldn't know who they were.

Do we reveal our identities at the end?

You bet! You want all those wonderful thank you's, don't you?

Will this form community? Create some new network links? Interesting to think about it as a possible community formation activity. I'm only sorry I didn't know about it in time enough to play!

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