Blog Community Building Practices
Last month I started thinking/writing about blog community. Looking at structures is one way in. Looking at practices is another. I often tell of how Seb Paquent welcomed me to blogging in 2004 and what it meant to me to jumpstart my practice, and connected me with people I did not even know were in my network.
Here is another one from our friends at Anecdote in Australia. - Thanks for participating. Shawn picked it up from David Maister. It is another form of Linky Love. In a nutshell, you regularly thank the people who comment on your blog.
Pretty neat and I'd count it as a community indicator!
Tags: community_indicators, blogcommunities
posted by Nancy White at 9:09 PM
4 Comments:
That really is a neat way to give some link love back. I know I truly appreciated your "welcome to blogging" post that you posted for me last year -- I was really appreciative.
I think another way of acknowledging commenters is to read their blog and comment on them from time to time. One of the things I've recently been doing is choosing some of my favorite Flickrers and blogging a photo with a link to their Flickr stream as well as their blog if they have one. I love it, because there are so many great folks on flickr who also blog, so it adds a new facet to the community.
Nancy, I'm so pleased to see that you picked up this conversation and you like the idea.
You might also enjoy a recent article by David Maister that's fundamentally about online community building.
(David Maister, btw, is a client. It's a great feeling when my blog and work worlds collide like this in such a pleasant, serendipitous way.)
Shaula, if I had read the comments all the way down, I would have discovered that it was your firm who gave David the idea!
Does it have a longer history?
Credit where credit's due: I got the idea from Stirling Newberry, one of my colleagues at BOPnews.
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