This document provides an overview of interacting with readers on blogs and using blogosphere radar tools. It discusses writing blog posts that encourage comments, responding to comments, tracking comments through RSS or email feeds, and using ego feeds, conversation trackers, tagging and tools like Commentful to find topics for new blog posts by tracking conversations around keywords and tags. The final assignment is to write blog posts that invite comments using the strategies, set up ego feeds and search feeds for keywords and tags, use Commentful, and write a post based on what is found in the feeds.

1. Module 3:Your Blogosphere
Radar
Beth Kanter, Beth’s Blog

2. Beth Kanter, Presenter
Photo by Steve Goodman

3. Rebecca Krause-Hardie, Co-Moderator

4. Housekeeping Details

5. Logistics: Ask Questions
Type them in
here, click send
Otherwise, I’m talking
into a black hole!

6. Logistics: Muting
*6 to
*7 to Un- Mute
mute

7. After the Session …
• An evaluation survey from the
system
• Web page with links and
slides
• howtoblog.wikispaces.com

8. Wait for the Recording
Lady…

9. Module 3:Your Blogosphere
Radar
Beth Kanter, Beth’s Blog

10. Learning Objectives
• Interacting With Your Readers
• Ego Feeds
• Conversation Trackers
• Tags
• Finding Topics

11. Let’s Check in the Previous Two Assignments

12. Reading and Commenting
on other blogs
Quick Review
Questions or concerns?

13. Reading and Commenting on other
blogs
1. Have you been able to set up a reader?
2. Have you been able to find blogs?
3. Are you making it a habit to read blogs?
4. Have you been leaving comments on other
blogs?
5. What have you learned?
6. What challenges?

14. Module 2: The Art of
Blogging
Beth Kanter, Beth’s Blog

15. Writing Blog Posts
How was it to write your first few
blog posts?
How might you improve what you
did?
What would you do differently?
What feels uncomfortable or
unclear?

16. What is a Blogosphere Radar?
Beth Kanter, Beth’s Blog

17. Interacting with your
readers on your blog

18. How do write posts that
encourage comments?

19. How You End Your Post Really Matters

20. Invite Comments

22. Be Open Ended

23. Respond to your readers!

24. Set Boundaries

25. Be Humble
Be Gracious
Be Controversial!

26. Reward Commenters

27. How might you incorporate
some of these qualities
into your blog posts?

28. How to Respond to Comments

29. •Be honest and to the point
•Respond quickly
•Reply to every (rational) question
•If a commenter corrects you,
thank them and update

31. Tracking Your Comments

32. Your readers comments ….
…in RSS or Email

33. Comments left elsewhere ..

35. It’s all about the ego …

41. Repeat these searches
For keywords and
Topics

44. Conversation Trackers

46. Bookmarklet

47. Tagging

49. Assignment
1.Write posts that invite
comments using a few of the
strategies
2. Set up your ego feeds
3. Set up your keyword and tag
search feeds
4.Set up commentful
5. Write a post based on what
you found in the feeds