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.
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
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