Structure How You Deal With Comments to Find the Right Response
Having previously written about how I embrace comments and why as well as how commenters should be commenting is it time to tackle what your role as blogger is when responding to comments and not least what you do if they despite all your good intentions don’t comment as they ideally should. Making clear, at least to yourself, how you will deal with comments is something you do well by doing before you get overwhelmed with them.
10 Tips That Will Make Anyone a Better Commenter
Part of the blogging platform is the comment feature that give readers of a particular article the ability to provide instant feedback. I have previously revealed why I am a strong believer in allowing comments on blogs. In Comments or No Comments That Is the Question - or Is It? I argued that comments add to the experience and make it more enjoyable. Furthermore does it help grow and expand communities on and across blogs. For this to work do we all have to honor our responsibility. As a blogger should you always try to aim high and give …
Write About Blogging for the Carnival of Circular Communication
Welcome to the first of hopefully many rounds of the Carnival of Circular Communication. I am so excited about this that I could hardly wait to get it up and running. As explained on the page dedicated to the carnival is this a perfect fit between blog and carnival. The Carnival of Circular Communication is slightly different from most Blog Carnivals as it has both an overall theme and underlying themes. It seemed like the most logical solution for making something lasting while keeping it interesting and relevant for everyone. While the overall theme is the same as for this …
How Blog Carnivals Boost Communities and Make Dreams Come True
Imagine that you could have what you write appear in a magazine. While that is a dream that many shares is it also one that few are able to fulfill. Now imagine being the managing editor and/or publisher of a magazine. Although probably a dream for less writers the more incredible nonetheless. In the Blogosphere there is a form for community events equivalent to magazines called Blog Carnivals. What makes them similar to a magazine is that they are dedicated to a particular topic or theme and that they are published on a regular schedule. Each edition is a special …
Extending the Circle of Communication With Asides
After reading about Asides on Alister Cameron’s blog yesterday I was excited about the idea of being able to add shorter posts without disrupting the flow or compromising the the purpose of the blog which is to publish more subtantial and lenghty articles. Asides is I believe originally an idea from Matt Mullenweg, but after looking things over I decided to implement them with the help of the Sideblog Wordpress Plugin. While Alister Cameron (and Matt Mullenweg) have them listed chronologically with his regular articles while using a different design of each to differentiate them have I …
