Written on January 18th, 2009 at 12:01 am by Darren Rowse
Use Gravatars to Add Personality to Your Blog
In this post Jack Gamble from Babeled sheds some light on a handy service - Gravatars which is a tool that many people are adding to their blogs (I’ve got it operating in the comments section of both TwiTip and Digital Photography School at present).
An important thing to remember as you develop your blog is [...]
Written on December 20th, 2008 at 12:12 am by Jeff Chandler
Save Time By Auto Filling Comment Forms
In this post Jeff Chandlerhighlights a cool tool for auto filling in comment forms on blogs.
Ok Problogger faithful, I’m going to keep it short and sweet this week by telling you about a cool FireFox extension which is sure to save you some time in the long run. Generally, every blog out on the web [...]
Written on October 28th, 2008 at 06:10 am by Darren Rowse
Reflections on 48 Hours of Inviting Readers to Comment ‘Spam’ My Blog
OK - so I didn’t ask people to comment ’spam’ my blog - I asked them to ‘pitch’ us with their blog. Here’s what I learned from the experience….
On the spur of the moment over the weekend I decided to run a little experiment here on ProBlogger where I invited readers to leave a comment [...]
Written on October 19th, 2008 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
What Name Do You Leave Comments on Blogs Under?
Here’s a question for discussion this weekend:
Do you use your real name when leaving comments on a blog or do you use ‘keywords’?
I was moderating comments last night here on ProBlogger and noticed almost a 60/40 split between these approaches (with 60% using ‘real’ names).
My personal preference is to leave my real name - that’s [...]
Written on October 12th, 2008 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
Should Blogs Have Comments?
Should blogs have comments?
It is a question that comes up fairly regularly in blogging circles and one that different bloggers take different approaches to.
Most bloggers have them - they’re on by default when they set their blog up and they never switch them off. They see the comments as adding a lot to the blog [...]
Written on October 2nd, 2008 at 07:10 am by Darren Rowse
10 Prolific Bloggers Share Tips on Generating Conversation on Blogs
Yesterday I gave 13 tips for having great conversations on a blog. As a followup to that I shot an email to a number of bloggers that have a habit of having active comment sections to ask them how they make their blogs more conversational.
As expected - their responses were rich and full of goodness! [...]
Written on October 1st, 2008 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
13 Tips on How to Have Great Conversations On Your Blog
Lately I’ve been suggesting 11 points to take a little extra time in the posting process on a blog. We’ve looked at everything from choosing topics, to crafting titles, to calls to action, to promoting your posts.
The point of this series is simply that when you take a little extra time at each of these [...]
Written on August 16th, 2008 at 05:08 am by Darren Rowse
Comment Moderation - How Do You Do It?
Today I came across a post on one of the NYT blogs on how the blogger there, Marci Alboher, moderates comments on her blog - via Steve Rubel.
In the post Marci shares a few reasons why she doesn’t allow comments to go up:
1. It is too long (even though it might be well-written and make [...]
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