Comments on: Blogging FAQ, Part 3: Building a community

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:30:55 +0000

Hope I could be of some help! Cheers!

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:23:44 +0000

How you use Twitter is up to you. I’ve seen some bloggers have separate accounts for their blog and for their chitchat. My totally unprofessional and biased opinion is that using the same account for your chitchat and post advertising is a lot better for publicity. Just jump into conversations, Tweet about cool sites you find, share some reflections on life and the game.

By: Lument

Lument — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 10:39:08 +0000

Yar, I use twitter (@officerchat). Have Twittelator on my iPhone and primarily use it from there. For the most part I enjoy Twitter but I’m still not sure of how much my blogging is about me or about the subject (guild leadership). There is the approach of it being very personal and then there is the method of it being a resource. Blogs can of course be a combination of the two to varying degrees. I tend to be more favored toward ‘resource’ than ‘personal’ for my actual blogs which doesn’t really translate well to Twitter. Still figuring out how I can use Twitter as a personal medium while the blog being a resource medium.

Does that make sense? Thoughts?

By: Chase

Chase — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:41:25 +0000

Very well done, great tips and loads of info. My blog gets some traffic but never any comments, I am hope that the tips here generate some comments and some banter. Thanks!!!

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:31:52 +0000

Anytime!

Do you use Twitter? I can’t remember… A lot of the socializing between bloggers takes place there. It’s like a giant public MSN messenger. (I’m not on all that often, I find Twitter kind of annoying, but if you want to chat with other bloggers, that’s the go-to place) Blog Azeroth also has a chatroom with a good reputation (the general chat forums has instructions of how to use it), but I don’t know if it’s still active.

By: Lument

Lument — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:37:23 +0000

Great tips! Advice along these lines has helped me tremendously as I am still warming up to blogging. I’ve always read 100+ blogs but taking the plunge to write myself felt daunting. Sometimes support in the community feels afar but when received it is very exciting. As ever, thank you for your friendliness and encouragement

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:21:18 +0000

I totally see it as a rite of passage too. When I came across a blog post about me, written by a stranger, and how I was a fail, horrible, terribad paladin, I cheered: Fame at last!

By: Calli

Calli — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:04:36 +0000

I’ve had one troll in almost three years of blogging. It’s not much, and he wasn’t a very good troll, but he’s MY troll and I’m proud of him! Getting a troll’s like rite of passage for a blogger, you know you’ve made it when you start getting trolled!

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:38:09 +0000

Looks like your blog is coming along really nicely! It takes awhile to find your voice and build a network so keep up the good work and the rest will come!

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:35:49 +0000

Aww thanks