Comments on: Strategic Commenting: No blog is an island

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:22:30 +0000

The underlying assumption in your message is that we blog for attention, either for commercial reasons or for kudos. In the first case the gist seems to be that it is OK to be commercial as long as our comments are relevant to the discussion, in other words to see our contributions and those of others as a form of currency is legitimate. I don’t share this assumption, and I feel it is worthwhile to comment on it. And with reference to this and the kudos issue, I would suggest that if you have to publicise yourself because others aren’t, then you aren’t setting the world alight. If your blog is sufficiently interesting people will share it with each other. If it isn’t get used to it, self publicity wont work, people get wise to it. To me the auto repair example is a case in point. You present it as a measured sensible way to publicise your blog. It may be measured, even ostensibly polite, but to me it reads as an invasion of the others created space for your own purposes.
I wonder if there are cultural issues at work here. I see what you propose as worrying, invasive, and built on an assumption that intellectual interaction of any kind is a legitimate target for “commercial” or “self-publicising” activity. Most of your commenters seem to view your position as natural however. Curious.

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By: mike

mike — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:39:45 +0000

Im gonna try commenting on blogs for a year. About 300-400 blogs per month.

This should bring in some big traffic after 12 months.

By: Kristina

Kristina — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:49:56 +0000

This was an amazing post Amy! I’m very new at blogging and this past week I’ve gotten really discouraged that no one has been reading my blog. This post showed me to actually take the initiative to do something to gain more readers. I will definitely be sharing this blog with my fellow students. Thank you so much for the advice!

By: anon

anon — Tue, 08 May 2007 17:35:31 +0000

This is great Amy ! You don’t really sit down and think about things like this, but now most people will be ! Here’s a Consumer Generated Site generating Buzz for Ford Motor Company Ltd and the Ford Escape Hybrid.

http://www.escapepollution.com

It’s pretty creative.

By: Ed Kohler

Ed Kohler — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:33:59 +0000

Great post, Amy. It’s hard to have a conversation without engaging interested readers and future contributors.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 02:13:35 +0000

Amy, first let me say “thank you”! You have opened my eyes in the respect of correctly using my company blog. I’ve gone as far as not only bookmark this page, but save it on my computer as well, so that I may refer back to it. In running my online business, Down Home Living Products & Gifts, I thought it would be nice to have a blog for my visitors and customers. In 2 months, I’ve only had one customer and two visitors make comments. It’s quite depressing. I had never thought in responding, or even offering any other topics other than what the customer/visitor might suggest. After I post this, I plan to make some drastic changes, not only in the way that I run my blog, but in the way I advertise it as well. Thanks again for your “well put” article!

By: Dennis Galayda

Dennis Galayda — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:55:59 +0000

My background is advertising so this is an extremely interesting and eye-opening topic. It applies tried,true and traditional communication methods in a new medium,(relatively speaking),helping, (if need be) to enhance or compliment the other, more traditional mediums in “getting one’s message out”. The beauty in Amy’s approach is it’s simplicity. I feel I’ve learned a bit more today. Thanks

By: Sam Houston

Sam Houston — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 01:57:11 +0000

I’m also a new blogger of about six weeks experience and I have to admit to becoming discouraged in recent days despite having picked up a few loyal readers during that time. At times I feel as if I’m talking to myself…but that’s not all bad because it makes me consider the logic of my position on world politics and the cheaters and liars I try to expose in my blog.

Thanks for the tips on building readership. It’s given me new hope that this will ultimately be worth the effort.

Sam

By: Dalene Bradford

Dalene Bradford — Wed, 24 May 2006 03:34:51 +0000

Thanks SO much for this article. Your advice was clear and precise. Doing this not only helps build community but it helped me take your blog thoughts on an issue one step further. John Jantsch had written about the need to document a company’s domain name (and not leave it with web developers to keep up with). I mentioned this good advice in my blog, added a checklist for documenting web assets that I found on TechSoup. John then mentioned this resource in his blog. I get it!

Now, can you write an equally helpful article explaining tags? As a “baby blogger” I’m moving into toddlerhood. Using tags might push me into kindergarten.