how to make people commenting on your blog?
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Keynote presentation at the Blogger Time Meetup London about how to foster discussions on your blog.TRANSCRIPT
KEYNOTE AT LONDON
BLOGGER MEETUP
24 JUNE 2008
XAVIER DAMMAN
COMMON CREATIVE
You can blog in the wind
But better
get
feedbackto
How to motivate
visitors
commentto ?
Opendiscussion 1
• Ask questions
• Be open ended
• Make it easy to comment
Answer(almost) all
2comments
Keep previous
3commentersin the loo
Keep previous
3commentersin the loop
Enables commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of
subsequent entries
Subscribe-to-comments
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe-to-comments/
your 4Reward
commenters
• Highlight comments in your post
• Weekly roundup of the best comments
• Give something back,an incentive to comment
CommentLuvPlace a link
to the commenters’ last post under their comments
http://www.fiddyp.co.uk/commentluv-wordpress-plugin/
5originalityAllow
SeesmicVideo commenting plugin
If your visitors are too lazy to write down their thoughts!
http://wiki.seesmic.com/Wp-plugin
I have too many now!How to keep them sorted?
142 comments
while ( TRUE ){
reading();}
We can do better!
A Wordpress pluginwhich displays a Tag Cloud
over all discussions
Typical discussion“Why SUV invade European cities?”
76
responses
76 Responses to “Why SUV invade European cities?”
against SUV, nobel
against SUV, planes,reject responsibility
!Ant Says:October 4th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
“I fully agree with you guys, 4x4 used in urban cities should get the Nobel”
!Matt Says:October 4th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
“Why do you bother innocent 4x4 drivers? Planes used to pollute much more!”
!Xavier Says:October 5th, 2007 at 11:07 am
“Of course planes pollute much more. However, if everybody puts the responsibility on someone else, nothing will change.”
!Toyota lover Says:October 5th, 2007 at 12:21 am
“Have you ever heard about the new Toyota Prius? An hybrid car which only rejects 104gr of CO2/km. You may find more informations on toyota.com/prius”
! Funki Says: October 5th, 2007 at 12:21 am
“Yeah, the Prius sounds great. But I don’t like that much its design... I’m looking forward for more hybrid models so that we’ll have somewhat a kinda choice”
against SUV defend SUV nobel planes reject responsibility
against SUV, nobel
against SUV, nobel
defend SUV, planes
against SUV, reject responsibility
against SUV, hybrid,green cars
76 Responses to “Why SUV invade European cities?”
against SUV, nobel
against SUV, planes,reject responsibility
!Ant Says:October 4th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
“I fully agree with you guys, 4x4 used in urban cities should get the Nobel”
!Matt Says:October 4th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
“Why do you bother innocent 4x4 drivers? Planes used to pollute much more!”
!Xavier Says:October 5th, 2007 at 11:07 am
“Of course planes pollute much more. However, if everybody puts the responsibility on someone else, nothing will change.”
!Toyota lover Says:October 5th, 2007 at 12:21 am
“Have you ever heard about the new Toyota Prius? An hybrid car which only rejects 104gr of CO2/km. You may find more informations on toyota.com/prius”
! Funki Says: October 5th, 2007 at 12:21 am
“Yeah, the Prius sounds great. But I don’t like that much its design... I’m looking forward for more hybrid models so that we’ll have somewhat a kinda choice”
against SUV defend SUV nobel planes reject responsibility
against SUV, nobel
against SUV, nobel
defend SUV, planes
against SUV, reject responsibility
against SUV, hybrid,green cars
Overview of the discussion at a glance
76 Responses to “Why SUV invade European cities?”
against SUV, nobel
against SUV, planes,reject responsibility
!Ant Says:October 4th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
“I fully agree with you guys, 4x4 used in urban cities should get the Nobel”
!Matt Says:October 4th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
“Why do you bother innocent 4x4 drivers? Planes used to pollute much more!”
!Xavier Says:October 5th, 2007 at 11:07 am
“Of course planes pollute much more. However, if everybody puts the responsibility on someone else, nothing will change.”
!Toyota lover Says:October 5th, 2007 at 12:21 am
“Have you ever heard about the new Toyota Prius? An hybrid car which only rejects 104gr of CO2/km. You may find more informations on toyota.com/prius”
! Funki Says: October 5th, 2007 at 12:21 am
“Yeah, the Prius sounds great. But I don’t like that much its design... I’m looking forward for more hybrid models so that we’ll have somewhat a kinda choice”
against SUV defend SUV nobel planes reject responsibility
against SUV, nobel
against SUV, nobel
defend SUV, planes
against SUV, reject responsibility
against SUV, hybrid,green cars
76 Responses to “Why SUV invade European cities?”
against SUV, nobel
!Matt Says:October 4th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
“Why do you bother innocent 4x4 drivers? Planes used to pollute much more!”
!Xavier Says:October 5th, 2007 at 11:07 am
“Of course planes pollute much more. However, if everybody puts the responsibility on someone else, nothing will change.”
against SUV defend SUV nobel planes reject responsibility
defend SUV, planes
against SUV, planes
76 Responses to “Why SUV invade European cities?”
against SUV, nobel
!Xavier Says:October 5th, 2007 at 11:07 am
“Of course planes pollute much more. However, if everybody puts the responsibility on someone else, nothing will change.”
against SUV defend SUV nobel planes reject responsibility
against SUV, planes
• Autocompletion
• Based on previous tags
• Web semantic
XAVIER DAMMAN
COMMON CREATIVE HTTP://WWW.COMMENTAG.COM
KEYNOTE AT LONDON
BLOGGER MEETUP
24 JUNE 2008
Thank you!
Any questions?
Why people would tag their comments?
No tags, no visibility
When people upload video on YouTUBE...
they tag them
People spend time writing comments
time
0 25 50 75 100
Writing
If no one reads your comment,
you’ve wasted your time!
time
0 25 50 75 100
Writing Tagging
Any more questions?
Sure?
XAVIER DAMMAN
COMMON CREATIVE HTTP://WWW.COMMENTAG.COM
KEYNOTE AT LONDON
BLOGGER MEETUP
24 JUNE 2008
Illustrations
• photo blowing: spursfan_ace
• pissenlit: vanessao
• sleeping: pasteler0
• letter: pinprick
• toilet: lricecsp
• infinite loop: kurafire
• reward: bunkosquad
• original: subliminalpudding
• many letters: elemente
Thanks all these guys for their great pictures!
XAVIER DAMMAN
COMMON CREATIVE HTTP://WWW.COMMENTAG.COM
KEYNOTE AT LONDON
BLOGGER MEETUP
24 JUNE 2008