Comment Challenge Day 12: Make Sure Your Blog Technology is “Comment Friendly”

In today’s activity, you’ll be looking at how the technology on your blog may or may not be inviting comments. Check out this post about some of the difficulties Silvia has seen in trying to leave comments at other blogs and make sure that your blog isn’t having these problems. Also review Sue Waters’ post [...]

Comment Challenge Day 11: Write a Blog Comment Policy

In this activity, you’re going to write a comment policy for your blog. If you have one already, you’re going to review it and make any revisions you think are necessary after reviewing some of the following articles and thinking through what you’ve learned from your own experiences as a commenter.

Does Your Blog Have [...]

Comment Challenge Day 10: Do a Comment Audit on Your Own Blog

For today’s task, review this post on 6 Reasons People Aren’t Commenting on Your Blog. Then audit your blog to see if you’re falling into any of these traps. If you’re feeling particularly brave, ask a fellow blogger or even your readers to give you feedback on how well you’re doing at making people feel [...]

Comment Challenge Day Nine: Should We Be Commenting on Blogs?

Check out this article and the many references to bloggers who think that comments should be disabled on blogs. Read through those posts and consider whether or not you think it’s better to build community through comments or through conversations occurring across blogs–or maybe a combination of both. What, to your mind, is the [...]

Comment Challenge Day 8: Comment on a Blog Outside of Your Core Niche

In today’s challenge, you’re going to find and comment on a blog that is outside of your normal interest areas.
Today I found came across a blog  post and I can’t even remember how I got there.  The blog is called e-politics which places outside of my usual blog reading in the edublogosphere.  However, one [...]

Comment Challenge Day 6: Engage Another Commenter in Discussion

For today’s task, courtesy of Bill Ferriter, you are going to engage another commenter in conversation. Find a post where other people have commented before you and then respond to something one of the commenters has said.
Is it cheating if the post you find is on your own blog?  
It took me several [...]