Comment Challenge Day 10: Comment Audit on My Blog
Posted by blk1 on May 11, 2008
Here’s Michele’s 6 Reasons People Aren’t Commenting on Your Blog
Time for my self-assessment:
1. You sound like a press release.
Okay, I don’t think this applies to me. I write about things I am passionate about. I’m not a company, or a business. I do write a lot about our writing project but I think my tone is very informal and hopefully open to comments and conversation by the HVWP community and beyond.
2. You sound like an infomercial.
I don’t think my blog sounds like an infomercial either. I hope it doesn’t sound like I’m selling anything. No products here.
3. You sound like a know-it-all.
I hope not.
Frustration seemed to create an amazing collaboration last year. I wondered about digital storytelling, about its process after returning unsuccessfully to the place I learned the basics.
Kevin Hodgson read my blog reflections and wondered about working to create a site for digital storytellers who were thinking and wondering as well.
How could we explore digital storytelling on the web, collaborating as a community?
Frustration, questions, reflections took us a long way….all the way to the ABC movie collaboration.
I hope the questions are continuing….
4. You haven’t showed them how.
This could be an important one. I remember when I saw Larry F.’s blog remodel and loved his small friendly photo on his sidebar and thanking his readers for stopping by. I borrowed the idea and added a request for a comment but I didn’t explain how to do that.
Whoops…
5. You haven’t created the right atmosphere.
I hope I am creating a comfortable home to visit often, spend time and maybe even leave something behind. I hope I am getting better at this.
I know a comfortable blog when I read one. I love leaving comments on those blogs.
6. You just don’t seem that into it.
I hope my passion comes across here. I love my blog.
So, I am I right here? Can anyone offer me some suggestions?
Bonnie
May 11th, 2008 at 7:26 am
I think your passion comes through with your blog and that it does reflect who you are.
No products?
Just experience and knowledge, and all of it free.
Peace
Kevin
May 11th, 2008 at 7:33 am
Thanks Kevin,
Yeah products in the ways that count.
I am thinking now about how I can make it easier for visitors to leave comments, just getting ready for the next challenge.
Nice gentle push over on your blog to get the boiler community, (exploding this week) to get us to explore blogs right in our back yard and get some conversations going.
That’s what I’m getting interested in.
Love these challenges!
Bonnie
May 12th, 2008 at 12:22 am
I can so relate to your early blogging experiences, Bonnie. In January I started a new blog, having decided that I wanted to go public with some issues I had been thinking about for a while. Somehow I thought that just making the decision to make my thoughts available online would open the door to the hordes of people who were waiting to read what I’d written and comment on it. Silly me! My big day so far was maybe six reads. It also took me a while to have the nerve to begin commenting on others’ blogs when I read something that I feel a response to. Like those writers were grown-ups and I”m just a kid and shouldn’t intervene until I’m more mature. Recently I’m getting braver about commenting.
Onward and Upward!
Lynn
May 12th, 2008 at 7:56 am
You know the more I read other blogs, the more I realize that WE ARE NOT ALONE and that feels good Lynne.
Bonnie