For most people it is the fastest way to promote votes for themselves by resteeming and also writing short dedicated posts. The slow, but possibly more effective way is to add comments to existing friends pointing them here.

All of this to say that if you have more effective ways to promote yourself (and by extension this post and the whole project) then that's fine. Use the chatrooms too!

Just to add, for everybody reading, you don't get disqualified for not following suggestions - you've been selected on the basis of your blog, not your marketing skills.