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Blogging 118: Trackbacks

By Lee Aase | Published: November 10, 2008
As I said in Blogging 117, blogs enable conversations, and one key way those happen is through comments. And comments you leave on other blogs have the additional benefit, if you comment thoughtfully, of encouraging readers of those blogs (and perhaps the authors) to visit your blog and see what you have to say. Trackbacks [...]
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Blogging 117: Attracting Blog Visitors through Comments

By Lee Aase | Published: November 7, 2008
Blogs are a conversational medium. As we learned in Blogging 101, a blog is essentially a newspaper. Two major factors that set blogs apart are: Anyone can be a publisher, and Within reason, every letter to the editor is published. I say “within reason” because some people go out and leave meaningless or off-topic comments [...]
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Blogging 103: Commenting on Blogs

By Lee Aase | Published: August 15, 2008
In one sense, a blog is just a Web site. A Web site that, because of easy-to-use and free software like WordPress, anyone can publish. You could decide to use WordPress.com as your content-management system, to produce your own one-way Web site. All you would have to do is turn off the comments feature, either [...]
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Blogging 113: Comments Policies for Blogs

By Lee Aase | Published: May 1, 2008
In Charlene Li’s presentation yesterday, she showed the JNJ BTW blog, and its comments policy, which reads in part: All comments will be reviewed before posting. Since this blog is about Johnson & Johnson, comments that don’t directly relate to the Company or to topics covered on this blog won’t be posted. That said, some [...]
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