Comments on: Using Humor on Your Blog to Bring About Change

By: johnegood

johnegood — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:10:56 +0000

My Dad used to tell me that You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

It’s an old lesson but one that we all need to learn over and over again. And then get reminded of.

By: Herbert

Herbert — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:49:17 +0000

I have to say that I agree completely with what you say – and it definitely wouldn’t hurt to find more creative methods to outlet our feelings – whether it be anger or sadness.

I’ve implemented what I’d consider your concept (as I learned it from this article) and would like to thank you for always using your newfound knowledge to help us bloggers.

Keep up the great work.

By: Justin McKean

Justin McKean — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:24:57 +0000

Humor is hard. I respect someone who can make me laugh a lot more than someone who just talks at me.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:17:27 +0000

What you mean here is that “It’s easier to catch flies with honey than with vinegar.”

Eileen
Dedicated Elementary Teacher Overseas
elementaryteacher.wordpress.com

By: Mike Vizdos

Mike Vizdos — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:31:39 +0000

Hi,

I think you are right on with using humor to help promote change. Over a year ago I started using this in my blog (as a weekly comic strip) in my niche and wow…. it has brought about some major changes in how we do what we do in our industry.

Am I always correct? Nope.

Is it funny all the time? Nope.

Do I help people think? I hope so!

- mike vizdos
http://www.implementingscrum.com

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:30:03 +0000

Years ago I learned “you can draw more bees with honey, than you can with vinegar”, Your humor was the “honey”, ranting would have been the vinegar, and in the end, you are the hero.

By: Ades

Ades — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:21:09 +0000

I think both (anger and humor) are two edges. I think normal constructive criticism will work best.

By: Black Zedd

Black Zedd — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:04:46 +0000

You’re absolutely right. The fact that corporate executives often whine about their jobs persuades me to take the subject on the humorous side. And satirical too…

Reverse psychology anyone?

By: suresh

suresh — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:43:23 +0000

You have truly represented the heart of all blogspot bloggers.

Though the bucks we make from that specific restricted adds is small , the discrimination based on region is not acceptable.

Thank you for the fight on behalf of bloggers.

By: Anand

Anand — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:59:32 +0000

Hi Darren,

“In many cases all a rant really does is get something off your chest – but it puts things on someone else’s chest which can lead to them either to escalate the conflict or ignore you.”

Loved this line.

This line will save me from a lot of fights….Thanks for that.

How about a post on Famous Quotes by Darren…..(If it is not already done)

By: Garg the Unzola

Garg the Unzola — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:46:33 +0000

Humour?

What is this thing called humour?
Does it have a smell?

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By: Brisbane SEO Bootcamp

Brisbane SEO Bootcamp — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:11:08 +0000

The picture of Darren with his good mates Larry and Serge is a nice touch. Don’t you just love Photoshop?

By: Sangesh

Sangesh — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:27:25 +0000

Sure, humor does help to get close to your reader.

By: Chetan

Chetan — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:59:58 +0000

Haha Dear Adsense..

Did Adsense deny your proposal? They would accept it this 14th for you atleast ;)

By: Andy MacDonald - SEO & Marketing Tips

Andy MacDonald - SEO & Marketing Tips — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:57:58 +0000

WOW, a way of blogging in such a way i had never even thought of before. yes i try to use humor, but in such a way that you have makes you a genius. I would never have thought of putting my points across in that sort of way and it has taught me to take a step back, and look at possible ways to approach a subject, rather than jumping in feet first.

Thanks Darren. Your posts continue to amaze me.

By: Welcome to Paradise

Welcome to Paradise — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:43:54 +0000

Hello Darren,

You make your point be heard and in a strong way. And yes, I like the way that you make your points to be heard, maybe my using humor or other means as well.

Best of luck to you.

By: Orfej

Orfej — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:50:11 +0000

Humor is good option for blog but sometimes irony or sarcasm can do a lot of bad things.Sometimes verbally attack can harm blog.But, jokes is my options and I like because I saw a lot of new plugins with jokes publishing.

By: Caryn

Caryn — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:59:18 +0000

I’ve learned that lesson the difficult way–through experience. But it’s amazing how many people still haven’t learned it, and seem to think that the best way to make someone do what they want is to verbally attack them from the beginning. And you’re right–the most common responses to that are anger or, barring that, ignoring the attacker. Not the result that they wanted. So now I start off by being polite, then firm.

By: Erica Ross-Krieger

Erica Ross-Krieger — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:15:48 +0000

Nice. And. I think your real brilliance resides not so much in the humor itself but in the way you opted for taking a breath and heeding the small voice in your head (I think its location is actually your heart:) Oh that we all would do more of this…

By: Lid

Lid — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:36:54 +0000

it does work – even for baby sites ;)

We did the same thing with Automattic.

After several hours of mucking about in forums, FAQs, WordPress Codex, Google et al, we got jack of getting conflicting answers to how to successfully redirect a WordPress.com blog so we could host it ourselves.

While we love the software and intended to use it on our site, there was no easy way (that we could find) to do this.

Finally, we posted a silly – but fun – letter that was titled “Open letter to Automattic”

The next morning, our hero Matt came and told us what to do – he was the first commenter, but it sparked others into beginning a conversation, asking questions, looking for feedback etc., which was fantastic.

Since then we’ve actually written a how to, but boy, it would be so nice if they just made it clearer in the FAQs – maybe it’s time for another letter…