How to make people commenting on your blog?

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Keynote presentation at the Blogger Time Meetup London about how to foster discussions on your blog.

Transcript of How to make people commenting on your blog?

KEYNOTE AT LONDON

BLOGGER MEETUP

24 JUNE 2008

XAVIER DAMMAN

COMMON CREATIVE

You can blog in the wind

But better

get

feedbackto

How to motivate

visitors

commentto ?

Opendiscussion 1

• Ask questions

• Be open ended

• Make it easy to comment

Answer(almost) all

2comments

Keep previous

3commentersin the loo

Keep previous

3commentersin the loop

Enables commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of

subsequent entries

Subscribe-to-comments

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe-to-comments/

your 4Reward

commenters

• Highlight comments in your post

• Weekly roundup of the best comments

• Give something back,an incentive to comment

CommentLuvPlace a link

to the commenters’ last post under their comments

http://www.fiddyp.co.uk/commentluv-wordpress-plugin/

5originalityAllow

SeesmicVideo commenting plugin

If your visitors are too lazy to write down their thoughts!

http://wiki.seesmic.com/Wp-plugin

I have too many now!How to keep them sorted?

142 comments

while ( TRUE ){

reading();}

We can do better!

A Wordpress pluginwhich displays a Tag Cloud

over all discussions

Typical discussion“Why SUV invade European cities?”

76

responses

76 Responses to “Why SUV invade European cities?”

against SUV, nobel

against SUV, planes,reject responsibility

!Ant Says:October 4th, 2007 at 4:12 pm

“I fully agree with you guys, 4x4 used in urban cities should get the Nobel”

!Matt Says:October 4th, 2007 at 4:37 pm

“Why do you bother innocent 4x4 drivers? Planes used to pollute much more!”

!Xavier Says:October 5th, 2007 at 11:07 am

“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

“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

“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”

against SUV defend SUV nobel planes reject responsibility

against SUV, nobel

against SUV, nobel

defend SUV, planes

against SUV, reject responsibility

against SUV, hybrid,green cars

76 Responses to “Why SUV invade European cities?”

against SUV, nobel

against SUV, planes,reject responsibility

!Ant Says:October 4th, 2007 at 4:12 pm

“I fully agree with you guys, 4x4 used in urban cities should get the Nobel”

!Matt Says:October 4th, 2007 at 4:37 pm

“Why do you bother innocent 4x4 drivers? Planes used to pollute much more!”

!Xavier Says:October 5th, 2007 at 11:07 am

“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

“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

“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”

against SUV defend SUV nobel planes reject responsibility

against SUV, nobel

against SUV, nobel

defend SUV, planes

against SUV, reject responsibility

against SUV, hybrid,green cars

Overview of the discussion at a glance

76 Responses to “Why SUV invade European cities?”

against SUV, nobel

against SUV, planes,reject responsibility

!Ant Says:October 4th, 2007 at 4:12 pm

“I fully agree with you guys, 4x4 used in urban cities should get the Nobel”

!Matt Says:October 4th, 2007 at 4:37 pm

“Why do you bother innocent 4x4 drivers? Planes used to pollute much more!”

!Xavier Says:October 5th, 2007 at 11:07 am

“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

“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

“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”

against SUV defend SUV nobel planes reject responsibility

against SUV, nobel

against SUV, nobel

defend SUV, planes

against SUV, reject responsibility

against SUV, hybrid,green cars

76 Responses to “Why SUV invade European cities?”

against SUV, nobel

!Matt Says:October 4th, 2007 at 4:37 pm

“Why do you bother innocent 4x4 drivers? Planes used to pollute much more!”

!Xavier Says:October 5th, 2007 at 11:07 am

“Of course planes pollute much more. However, if everybody puts the responsibility on someone else, nothing will change.”

against SUV defend SUV nobel planes reject responsibility

defend SUV, planes

against SUV, planes

76 Responses to “Why SUV invade European cities?”

against SUV, nobel

!Xavier Says:October 5th, 2007 at 11:07 am

“Of course planes pollute much more. However, if everybody puts the responsibility on someone else, nothing will change.”

against SUV defend SUV nobel planes reject responsibility

against SUV, planes

• Autocompletion

• Based on previous tags

• Web semantic

XAVIER DAMMAN

COMMON CREATIVE HTTP://WWW.COMMENTAG.COM

KEYNOTE AT LONDON

BLOGGER MEETUP

24 JUNE 2008

Thank you!

Any questions?

Why people would tag their comments?

No tags, no visibility

When people upload video on YouTUBE...

they tag them

People spend time writing comments

time

0 25 50 75 100

Writing

If no one reads your comment,

you’ve wasted your time!

time

0 25 50 75 100

Writing Tagging

Any more questions?

Sure?

XAVIER DAMMAN

COMMON CREATIVE HTTP://WWW.COMMENTAG.COM

KEYNOTE AT LONDON

BLOGGER MEETUP

24 JUNE 2008

Illustrations

• photo blowing: spursfan_ace

• pissenlit: vanessao

• sleeping: pasteler0

• letter: pinprick

• toilet: lricecsp

• infinite loop: kurafire

• reward: bunkosquad

• original: subliminalpudding

• many letters: elemente

Thanks all these guys for their great pictures!

XAVIER DAMMAN

COMMON CREATIVE HTTP://WWW.COMMENTAG.COM

KEYNOTE AT LONDON

BLOGGER MEETUP

24 JUNE 2008