Comments on: Who do you Blog for?: Tips for Increasing the Conversation

By: Jan Herder

Jan Herder — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:59:34 +0000

Hey, being new to blogging, the point is well taken. I don’t have any tips to offer. I’m not at all sure who it is I blog for at this point.
I’m not even sure why I blog. As a member of SLED I’m just getting over being a newbie, especially as a digital immigrant with a really, really heavy accent. Somehow it comes back to my teaching and the paradigm shift occuring there. I found myself trying to leverage Facebook in order to find and engage my students. But then how was i to talk the web2.0 talk if i wasn’t walking the walk? Now that I’ve started everything is different –in the blogging–and i find my self on a self reflective journey. Oddly I don’t feel shy about saying what’s on my mind. If this is relevant or even appropriate for my teaching I have no idea–so I’m not linking it to my Facebook groups just yet.

By: BlogSchmog » Blog Fatigue

BlogSchmog » Blog Fatigue — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:00:45 +0000

[...] Building a community is an important activity to help push through the frustration phase into a higher level of expectation. I look at it not as an end goal but as a buffer against inactivity: The more people paying attention, the more hooks to stay engaged. It helps, too, to reinvent your blog—visually—from time to time. With BlogSchmog, I missed my own August deadline to give the site a face lift (and in the process change the configuration a bit to better help promote our work). At some point, it might become vital to invest the time to read Nick Carroll’s Law of the Blog about the legal aspects of this medium. All that seems terribly formal and heavy, though, to the point of mutating the motivation to blog into something unnatural. [...]

By: Aleister Kronos

Aleister Kronos — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:59:14 +0000

I do wonder sometimes whether writing blogs becomes some sort of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. I know there are times (and more of them as time goes on) when I am doing posts for the sake of doing posts.

It’s not like I get paid for it. I just do it.

By: Akela Talamasca

Akela Talamasca — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:29:03 +0000

Actually, I do love comments, but my posts are monologues. I do it to ensure that I’m writing daily, so the muscles don’t atrophy. Also, now that I’m narrating my posts, it kinda serves as a proof-of-concept for any voiceover work I might do.

However, Vox doesn’t allow comments from people who aren’t Vox users! WTF? So if anyone can recommend a free service that lets me put up a photo and a soundfile alongside the text (as here: http://akelatalamasca.vox.com), I’d be obliged!

By: Aleister Kronos

Aleister Kronos — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:11:01 +0000

Putting comments on other blogs (like this one).
Using a blogroll.
Posting to Stumbleupon
Using pingoat.com, pingomatic.com and other pinging services (eg: Google Blog Ping).
Having a MyBlogLog account.

All of which may do me some good… but in all honesty, not much, since my traffic numbers won’t clog the internet. The vast majority of hits on my blog come via Google.

I don’t use ads, either. I’m not that obsessed with driving traffic.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:14:50 +0000

I comment on blogs that I am interested in and I check out the sites of other people who are also commenting…I figure we must have something in common or we wouldn’t find ourselves commenting on the same blog. Probably 90% of my blog friends have been found in this way. Probably 10% are as a result of being registered at sites like BlogHer.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:02:16 +0000

Comment on other blogs.

I have one long standing, high traffic blog. The audience has been built up over a long time, largely by finding other similar blogs and commenting there.

My new blog is struggling for visitors, so as well as employing your suggestions, I’m trying to be ‘more visible’ within that particular blog arena.

By: PaleFire

PaleFire — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:49:55 +0000

I bookmarked this for future use!!!