I found out about a comment challenge from The MLxperience through Twitter.
It’s a lovely idea! One of my favorite parts of being involved in the biblioblogosphere are the connections I’ve made with people, but lately, with less commenting, I’ve not been doing as much of that. So here comes a month of commenting!
The first assignment is a self audit. Here it goes:
- How often do you comment on other blogs during a typical week?
Not as much as I should!
- Do you track your blog comments? How? What do you do with your tracking?
I do! I used co.mments, which has completely changed my commenting from being about me making an announcement and maybe never coming back to see what happened to commenting as a discussion. This is the only RSS feed I follow in my email reader. I also track comments for posts that I might want to comment on later, depending on how the conversation goes.
- Do you tend to comment at the same blogs or do you try to comment on at least one new blog per week?
This one varies with what’s going on in the internets and in my own life.
Welcome to the Comment Challenge Lauren. I also use co.mment to track my comments and feed it into my Google Reader. It’s had a big impact on my ability to respond to comments. I also use cocomment due to it’s community aspects.
Hi Lauren,
Welcome to the Comment Challenge. I’m working on the challenge as an individual and also with my class. We were busy today commenting to our blog partners all around the world. My students and I are always so excited when people read our blog posts. There is nothing more thrilling than receiving feedback on what you’ve written.
I’ve never used co.mment but it sounds interesting.
Kimberly
a.k.a classroomqueen
Thanks Sue and Kimberly! It looks like we’re in this exciting adventure together.
Lauren, I’m so glad you’re doing this, too!
As far as those questions go, I hardly ever comment on other blogs. I read alot, but….I don’t know, I end up hitting the back button alot. Would that be something like Commenters Remorse? And I use Twitter too much. There, I said it.
And I’d not kept up with my comments before I started using CoComment for the challenge. I’d started to do it on del.icio.us but it was kind of a pain. The CoComment browser extension does it for me though. Cool.
Some people are such prolific commenters and I’m really impressed by that. If I’m interested in something enough to comment, I tend to do it on my own blog and just link back to their post. But some of my own posts get so many comments that I feel badly for not reciprocating. I guess that’s why I decided to do this challenge as well. It’s an awesome idea!
Haha, Commenter Remorse and too much Twitter, I am SO there, Marianne!
I know what you mean, Meredith! So often I see my thoughts (or at least most of them) mentioned in the comments that I don’t add my own… and if my thoughts are particularly detailed or sufficiently different, I try to post and use trackback links. I’m glad you’re on board for the commenting challenge…. I think it’ll be a fun one. (I’ve already seen changes in my own blogging behavior because of it, fwiw!)