The blog is the new way to meet and greet.
The water cooler is out.
This is great it expands the range to thousands of people who may have better ideas than anyone in your office.
If you have a website this is a opportunity to make new contacts and draw more attention to your site.
Here are a few simple ideas that will make you a more effective blog contributor.
If you follow this good advise you will soon get better results.
First the blog post has a main topic.
Stay on that topic.
If you drift you will lose.
Stay on topic and add real value to the discussion.
Discussing your pet idea is not in order here.
People what topic driven matter.
You can comment very effectively by picking out the keywords of the original post.
And using them to frame the conversation to a full explanation or questions that are needed to be clear.
Sometime people are interested in you take, this is great but keep it to are reasonable league The same goes for commenting on comments.
Use keyword and idea and stay focused on the main point of the blog post it you get off on something unrelated no one is helped.
This is a carnal sin in blogging that often happens when commenting on comments.
So stay on topic.
This is not the place to be a hard core political partisan unless it is a political blog.
People what to read about your story on the topic.
This a the place to share those stories.
And they make great comments.
Make your experience a teaching moment that will lead others to a better experience.
Blogging 101 calls for a careful hand in grammar and spelling.
If you are not good at this then use software that will help you do better.
Comments are revealing so don't let poor grammar spoil them.