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31 Day Comment Challenge: Days 26 – 31

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Note: 95% of this was written on a flight from San Juan to Philadelphia, so please excuse any spelling/grammatical errors or anything that just doesn’t make sense. I haven’t had time to really proofread this and I wanted to finish the challenge in a reasonable amount of time.
Day 26: Exploring Other Ways to Comment
Today, [...]

31 Day Comment Challenge: Days 19-25

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Day 19: Respond to a Commenter on Your Own Blog
This activity is supposed to be about responding to people who comment on your posts. The person who created the activity writes “if readers have made time to comment on your posts, you should always make sure to respond back (ideally to each reader) in the [...]

31 Day Comment Challenge: Days 15 – 18

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Day 15: Give a Comment Award
I’m supposed to recognize one or a few commenters on my blog today, and for whatever parameters I choose (they write good comments, they comment frequently, they make me think, etc.).
I’m going to recognize a few commenters who really challenge me and make me think. Many of the comments I [...]

31 Day Comment Challenge: Days 12 – 13

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Day 12: Make Sure Your Blog Technology is “Comment Friendly”
Last week, I examined the comment-friendliness of my posts. Today, I’m supposed to examine the comment-friendliness of the technologies I employ on my blog. Some blogs certainly do put up a lot of hurdles to people wanting to comment. For some reason, on Blogger blogs, I [...]

31 Day Comment Challenge: Days 8-11

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Rather than boring you to death with 31 Comment Challenge posts, I’m trying to condense a bunch of the activities into each post so if you’re bored, you can easily skip these.
Day 8: Comment on a blog outside of your niche
My husband is definitely a car guy. He watches car shows, reads car magazines, [...]

31 Day Comment Challenge: Days 2-7

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

In case you were wondering, I haven’t given up on the comment challenge! I’ve just been rather involved in the comment storm that’s taking place on my blog right now.
I definitely didn’t do all of these activities “by the book” but my goal with this is really to be a better blog citizen and think [...]

31 Day Comment Challenge: Day 1

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

The first activity in the comment challenge is to do a comment self-audit. Here’s mine:

How often do you comment on other blogs during a typical week?
It is so variable. Probably on average I comment on three blogs a week. Sometimes I don’t comment at all, sometimes I comment a lot. Sometimes my comments are [...]