11 Great Quotes Highlighting the Concept of Conversation

A conversation is communication by two or more people. It is often on a particular topic, but doesn’t have to be. A conversation is thus the expression of concepts involving both the abstract and the concrete. The art of conversation requires knowledge, practice, and patience, but anyone can learn to relax and enjoy a great conversation. In fact conversations can in some respects be seen as the ideal form of communication, since they allow people with different views and backgrounds to learn from each other.

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 …

Favorites from Probloggers Top 5 Group Writing Project (Part 3)

I screened the entire list from Probloggers Top 5 - Group Writing Project for posts that were relevant to the subject area of this blog (read communication, blogging, community, conversation, interaction, etc.) and this is the third batch of recommended reads in no particular order:

Building a Blog Community
“I look at my blog from the perspective of a professional storyteller. I want to tell a good story when I write, and I want to entertain my audience. My main hope is that people will keep coming back. I hope that blogging friends I make will connect with other blogging …