The Carnival of Circular Communication - 1st Edition
Welcome to the first ever edition of the Carnival of Communication. Within the realm of circular communication the posts that made this edition will teach you about everything from writing great headlines to getting great interviews as well as how community starts with communication, how to make the most of your Google Mail and how to navigate the seven C’s. A great thank you goes out to everyone who sent in his or her post as well as to you reading this. I hope you enjoy the following articles and take away as much from reading them as I did.
10 Great Quotes Expanding the Concept of Community
The concept of community comes from having something in common. A common place, interest, distinction or the like. Communities are thus a form of order. Without them there would perhaps not be chaos, but things would certainly be more chaotic. T.S. Eliot went so far as to state: “What life have you if you have not life together? There is no life that is not in community.” This statement is about as far as you can come from the stale formal definition of the concept which simply states the cold facts.
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 …
Comments or No Comments That Is the Question - or Is It?
Apparently is there about once a year an omnipresent war on words going on about whether a blog that doesn’t allow comments is indeed a blog. As with most heated discussions is the interesting aspect not so much who is right or wrong, but what you can learn from it. The real substance lies in the middle so to speak. It is thus more interesting to look at why you would lean in one direction or the other as in which direction you are actually leaning. Matthew Ingram, one of the most prominent bloggers who was against calling a blog …
Why You Should Blog With Community in Mind and How to do it
Basically can you see blogging as being about publishing or about community. If you believe blogging to be merely about publishing is content production the main purpose and occupation. You may interact with others when looking for inspiration and when researching just as you will probably be contacted by people when you do something right (and definitely when you do something wrong). However, is blogging from this perspective mostly one-way communication. A much richer scenario offers the community perspective (or should I call it the circular communication perspective?) where the content acts as the foundation and where as much as …
