How to make people commenting on your blog?

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1. Slide 1: KEYNOTE AT LONDON BLOGGER MEETUP 24 JUNE 2008 XAVIER DAMMAN COMMON CREATIVE
2. Slide 2: You can blog in the wind
3. Slide 3: But better to get feedback
4. Slide 4: ? How to motivate visitors to comment
5. Slide 6: 1 Open discussion
6. Slide 7: • Ask questions • Be open ended • Make it easy to comment
7. Slide 10: 2 Answer (almost) all comments
8. Slide 11: 3 Keep previous commenters in the loo
9. Slide 12: 3 Keep previous commenters in the loop
10. Slide 13: Subscribe-to- comments Enables commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent entries http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe-to-comments/
11. Slide 14: Reward your commenters 4
12. Slide 15: • Highlight comments in your post • Weekly roundup of the best comments • Give something back, an incentive to comment
13. Slide 16: CommentLuv Place a link to the commenters’ last post under their comments http://www.fiddyp.co.uk/commentluv-wordpress-plugin/
14. Slide 17: 5 Allow originality
15. Slide 18: Seesmic Video commenting plugin If your visitors are too lazy to write down their thoughts! http://wiki.seesmic.com/Wp-plugin
16. Slide 19: I have too many now! How to keep them sorted?
17. Slide 21: 142 comments
18. Slide 22: while ( TRUE ) { reading(); }
19. Slide 23: We can do better!
20. Slide 25: A Wordpress plugin which displays a Tag Cloud over all discussions
21. Slide 27: Typical discussion “Why SUV invade European cities?” 76 responses
22. Slide 28: 76 Responses to “Why SUV invade European cities?” against SUV defend SUV nobel planes reject responsibility ! Ant Says: October 4th, 2007 at 4:12 pm againstagainst SUV, nobel SUV, nobel “I fully agree with you guys, 4x4 used in urban cities should get the Nobel” ! Matt Says: October 4th, 2007 at 4:37 pm defend SUV, planes “Why do you bother innocent 4x4 drivers? Planes used to pollute much more!” ! Xavier Says: October 5th, 2007 at 11:07 am against against SUV,responsibility responsibility SUV, reject planes,reject “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 against SUV, hybrid,green cars “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 against SUV, nobel “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”
23. Slide 29: 76 Responses to “Why SUV invade European cities?” against SUV defend SUV nobel planes reject responsibility ! Ant Says: October 4th, 2007 at 4:12 pm againstagainst SUV, nobel SUV, nobel Overview “I fully agree with you guys, 4x4 used in urban cities should get the Nobel” of the ! Matt Says: discussion at a glance October 4th, 2007 at 4:37 pm defend SUV, planes “Why do you bother innocent 4x4 drivers? Planes used to pollute much more!” ! Xavier Says: October 5th, 2007 at 11:07 am against against SUV,responsibility responsibility SUV, reject planes,reject “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 against SUV, hybrid,green cars “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 against SUV, nobel “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”
24. Slide 30: 76 Responses to “Why SUV invade European cities?” against SUV defend SUV nobel planes reject responsibility ! Ant Says: October 4th, 2007 at 4:12 pm againstagainst SUV, nobel SUV, nobel “I fully agree with you guys, 4x4 used in urban cities should get the Nobel” ! Matt Says: October 4th, 2007 at 4:37 pm defend SUV, planes “Why do you bother innocent 4x4 drivers? Planes used to pollute much more!” ! Xavier Says: October 5th, 2007 at 11:07 am against against SUV,responsibility responsibility SUV, reject planes,reject “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 against SUV, hybrid,green cars “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 against SUV, nobel “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”
25. Slide 31: 76 Responses to “Why SUV invade European cities?” against SUV defend SUV nobel planes reject responsibility ! Matt Says: October 4th, 2007 at 4:37 pm defendagainst SUV, nobel SUV, planes “Why do you bother innocent 4x4 drivers? Planes used to pollute much more!” ! Xavier Says: October 5th, 2007 at 11:07 am against SUV, planes “Of course planes pollute much more. However, if everybody puts the responsibility on someone else, nothing will change.”
26. Slide 32: 76 Responses to “Why SUV invade European cities?” against SUV defend SUV nobel planes reject responsibility ! Xavier Says: October 5th, 2007 at 11:07 am againstagainst SUV, nobel SUV, planes “Of course planes pollute much more. However, if everybody puts the responsibility on someone else, nothing will change.”
27. Slide 35: • Autocompletion • Based on previous tags • Web semantic
28. Slide 36: KEYNOTE AT LONDON BLOGGER MEETUP 24 JUNE 2008 XAVIER DAMMAN COMMON CREATIVE HTTP://WWW.COMMENTAG.COM
29. Slide 37: Thank you!
30. Slide 38: Any questions?
31. Slide 39: Why people would tag their comments?
32. Slide 40: No tags, no visibility
33. Slide 41: When people upload video on YouTUBE...
34. Slide 42: they tag them
35. Slide 43: People spend time writing comments
36. Slide 44: Writing time 0 25 50 75 100
37. Slide 45: If no one reads your comment,
38. Slide 46: you’ve wasted your time!
39. Slide 47: Writing Tagging time 0 25 50 75 100
40. Slide 48: Any more questions?
41. Slide 49: Sure?
42. Slide 50: KEYNOTE AT LONDON BLOGGER MEETUP 24 JUNE 2008 XAVIER DAMMAN COMMON CREATIVE HTTP://WWW.COMMENTAG.COM
43. Slide 51: Illustrations • photo blowing: • infinite loop: kurafire spursfan_ace • reward: bunkosquad • pissenlit: vanessao • original: • sleeping: pasteler0 subliminalpudding • letter: pinprick • many letters: elemente • toilet: lricecsp Thanks all these guys for their great pictures!
44. Slide 52: KEYNOTE AT LONDON BLOGGER MEETUP 24 JUNE 2008 XAVIER DAMMAN COMMON CREATIVE HTTP://WWW.COMMENTAG.COM