Chris Brogan declared Monday, April 28th World Comment Day. Rather than blog today, he said, go be part of the conversation – comment on three other blogs. The suggestion picked up steam on Twitter. According to TweetScan, roughly 80 or 90 people retweeted. I saw it half a dozen times on my Twitter stream.
I often talk about the benefits of commenting to students and clients alike. In fact, I require my Advanced PR Writing students to comment once a week on another blog. But, honestly, I don’t comment as much as I should. Or even as much as I’d like to.
So, I took Chris’ edict and ran with it. It was hard! But, I had retweeted the announcement myself and even posted updates during the day about my progress, so I was determined to lead by example.
When I finished my last comment, on Jason Fallis’ Social Media Explorer blog, I promptly (and proudly) send a reply to Chris proclaiming my success. I appreciated the nudge to comment today. Can’t talk the be-part-of-the-conversation talk without walking the be-part-of-the-conversation walk.
Chris replied back and then tweeted the link to this blog… to his 7,000 followers. This might be bigger than the one time I had a post on Digg. 🙂
So, now you know why I love World Comment Day. Declare your own and join the conversation.
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2 responses to “Why I (Now) Love World Comment Day”
I, too, love World Comment Day. The best part about blogging is the conversation that it initiates in the comments section, but lately, I’ve gotten into a comment rut: I read blogs all the time, and rarely branch out for new blogs to interact on. Not today! I commented on 3 blogs I’ve never done so on before.
I truly appreciated the urge to interact with other bloggers, and the funny thing is, I never would have known about it if it hadn’t been for twitter!
That’s the best part. There’s no real reason why today was the day. But then again, nothing else was scheduled today, so why not? : )
Glad you were part of it.