Blogging101: how to administer comments in Blogger

Over at the Lake Erie Moose Society site, I've posted a brief tutorial about allowing comments in the Blogger system.

I'm a firm believer in the power of commenting to build community, and I still wish I had an RSS reader that would at least display how many comments have been made on the posts I'm reading. But the workaround of subscribing to RSS feeds of comment streams I've posted in seems to be adequate.

3 comments:

  1. have you thought about trying discus?

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  2. Thanks Jeff. Did you announce this posting on FB? I know there are some bloggers who use Blogger.

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  3. Hi Rob, thanks for stopping by. A couple fellow Cleveland bloggers use Disqus, but not really enough of them to make it worth tracking my comments on a Disqus profile. The same is true of Backtype. It's a strangely fragmented technology - all blogging platforms provide commenting mechanisms, but they're all different.

    Donna, I don't think I pushed this one over from the Ning site to Facebook. When I did the last one, the Facebook posting came through as me, not as Lake Erie Moose (presumably because I was logged in to FB as me). Figured I'd let somebody else do it - or just bring it up at the next meeting.

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