Building a Community Around your Blog 2 - Let the Comments be your Content!
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Building a community around your blog involves engaging readers beyond comments by making interactivity a key element. Strategies include keeping barriers low for participation, promoting influencer roles, and providing content monitoring to prevent negativity. Ultimately, understanding the community's needs and using tools like plugins can enhance reader loyalty and interaction.
Building a Community Around your Blog 2 - Let the Comments be your Content!
- 1. Building a Community Around your Blog 2 Let the Comments be your Content! @digibomb
- 2. First, a quick recap ... Check out par t 1
- 3. If readers h ave a personal attachm ent to you and other reade rs of your blog they’ll be more likely to return agai n and again ...
- 4. The pro blem with blogs
- 5. 1 Community is only in the comments, and that is ver y limited!
- 6. 1 Community is only in the comments, and that is ver y limited! Reade rs are forced to discuss the topic at hand. No new discussions. No interaction. 2
- 8. Anybody?
- 9. Stop speaking and listen! Let the comments be your content.
- 10. Interac tivity engages readers a nd creates a positive impression
- 11. Interac tivity engages readers a nd creates a positive impression A sense of community creates loyal readers
- 12. Interac tivity engages readers a nd creates a Readers who like you positive impression will help you out in various ways A sense of community creates loyal readers
- 13. Interac tivity engages readers a nd creates a Readers who like you positive impression will help you out in various ways A sense of community creates loyal readers Even if your community is small, it p rovides you with an o ppor tunity to get to kno w your readers
- 14. Where do I start?
- 15. Bork! You need the right ingredients!
- 16. 1 Notifications
- 17. Let users know what’s going on
- 18. Let users know what’s going on Give them a reason to come back
- 19. 2 Keep the barriers low
- 20. Easy to enter
- 21. Easy to enter Easy to post
- 22. 3 Monitor content
- 23. Prevent trolling What a bunch of crap. This site sucks and your question is stupid.don’t bother com ing here for anything
- 24. Prevent trolling What a bunch of crap. This site sucks and your question is stupid.don’t bother com ing here for anything R emove noise Title: How this work?
- 25. 4 Promote Influencers
- 26. Give members jobs It’s amazing how many people don’t want to just read and consume – they want to be a part of building something that matters. Jobs can be anything from moderators, contributors, documenters, or recruiters.
- 27. 5 Be a cheer leader
- 28. Answer questions and manage user expectations
- 29. Answer questions and manage user expectations Give feedback regularly
- 30. Answer questions and manage user expectations Give feedback regularly Mention milestones in newsletters, etc.
- 31. Answer questions and manage user expectations Give feedback regularly Mention milestones in newsletters, etc. Remember: The community belongs to the community!
- 32. 6 Give your readers homework
- 33. Tips and tricks
- 34. Tips and tricks Tutorials
- 35. Tips and tricks Tutorials Ask questions
- 36. Tips and tricks Survey and poll Tutorials Ask questions
- 37. 7 One last tip
- 38. Determine who your community is and what they want
- 39. Determine who your community is and what they want Uploads Notifications Voting Shares Badges Follows Signatures Attachments
- 41. Get the plugin!
- 42. Get the plugin! So easy a Caveman can do it.
- 43. Dow nload the plugin from WordPress.org
- 44. What’s inclu ded in the suite <embed> Vanilla plugin – Allows you to embed your Vanilla forum into WordPress with a single line of code. Discussions widget – Displays recent discussions. Activity widget - Displays recent activity. Users widget – Displays recently active user profile photos.
- 45. ... then download Vanilla
- 46. Download for FREE Signup for FREE at VanillaForums.org at VanillaForums.com or
- 47. The sweetest forum on the web!
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