Comments on: Let’s Talk

By: Bill Gaskins

Bill Gaskins — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:25:27 +0000

Thanks for reminding me how important commenting is on people’s blogs I read. I read a lot of blogs and I am guilty for not leaving comments. I will try to improve in that area. Thanks for waking me up.

Bill

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:46:51 +0000

I couldn’t agree more about the importance of commenting on the posts of others as a step in building your own blog. Among those outside the blogosphere as well as many new bloggers, there is a misconception of the blogger as someone standing on a soapbox shouting at everyone else. To those who understand it and practice, it quickly becomes evident that blogging is actually much more conversational. It’s a two-way street. It took me a while to learn that but once I did, I found more comments on my own posts and more visits to my blog in general.

By: Cathy Nelson

Cathy Nelson — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:15:51 +0000

@Steve–thanks for visiting and leaving “me” a comment. I really don’t think I need the challenge but it does give me something to focus on as well as food for thought as I prepare for staff developments or conference presentations. The challenge is reminding me of many things I now take for granted in blogging. So I do appreciate the effort here. And now I can say OMG I got a comment from THE Teach42!!

By: Steve Dembo

Steve Dembo — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:30:35 +0000

Ya know, I never really thought much about the comments RSS feed. I like to subscribe to comments that I’ve left via email, but didn’t really think much about the RSS feed. I’ve edited off of Teach42, but when I work on my sidebar (future challenge) I’ll be adding that back in.

And thanks for sharing your experience commenting. I often have people asking me how to get people to read their blogs. The first piece of advice I always give them is that if they want people to read their blog, they should be spending a good chunk of time commenting on other people’s. It makes the personal connection and then people follow your links back.

Great tips!

By: Cathy Nelson

Cathy Nelson — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:53:25 +0000

@Jim – In the wordpress dashboard go to design–>theme–> and add meta to the side bar. It will add both feeds plus a link to site admin and wordpress. I have it on mine in the lower right. Some themes out there have both feeds as a part of their set up, but my theme (Misty Look) did not, so i added the meta widget in–which provides the feeds.

By: Jim Beeghley

Jim Beeghley — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:27:10 +0000

Hi Cathy,

I never thought about adding a feed for my comments. I personally don’t usually subscribe to comments of other blogs but simply check back if I have infact posted a comment. I will have to learn how to do that with my current WordPress theme / configuration. This has been a big learning curve for me going from Blogger to my own hosted WordPress installation.

Thanks again,
Jim Beeghley
Teaching the Civil War with Technology
http://blog.teachthecivilwar.com

PS: We will be spending Christmas in Myrtle Beach.