Blog Comment Blitz #3

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The time has come! Your list of blogs is below. Get your comments in while they're hot! Don't forget to leave a link to your own blog to help cross pollinate!

Well it's been a while since the last one and I enjoyed it last time, so in the spirit of what Talia and Gillian started, welcome to the third blog comment blitz. I'm shamelessly using Talia's rules (I hope you don't mind ;)) so that it will be easier for everyone to follow:

The next Blog Comment Blitz is going to start on June 17, 2007. Please signup and we will start once 15 participants are on board or on June 25, 2007 whichever comes first.

This has been working really well. It is a quick process and you get to have some fun interacting with commenters and visiting new and interesting blogs.

Following the new format, general rules for the comment chain are listed below:

Format:
The purpose of the comment chain is to introduce new readers to your blog and to get some feedback and support from other writers.

The new format - Instead of taking turns to comment on blogs, we have a set time period during which you make your way to each of the other blogs on the list and make comments.

The idea is to make a minimum of one comment on each of the blogs listed below. You can comment on any of the posts. Depending on the nature of the post you can give the blogger feedback on their writing or opinions, share your thoughts and experiences, add new ideas or debate the ideas. Witty comments are always welcome. Please try to be positive though. No derogatory comments (I'm happy to say I didn't see any the past two times.)


Timing:
Registrations will be open until 15 participants (including moi) have signed up or until June 25, 2007, whichever comes first. First in, first served!

You will have seven days to make your comments on the other blogs once the process is started during the period June 25 - July 2 inclusive (EST zone).


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This means you have to commit to
commenting on up to 15 blogs during a 7 day period (2+ per day).
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Rules:

  • If you are participating in a blog writing chain on AW then you have to make a SEPARATE comment for the blog comment chain (i.e. one comment for this and another on the entry in the blog chain)
  • No excuses (except a bona fide death certificate :D)
  • When you have completed comments on all the blogs in the list please return to advise us that you have finished
  • Please try to make your comments supportive, encouraging or constructive. Witty comments are also appreciated
  • Please complete all your comments by Midnight EST on 7 May 07
  • To sign up please list your blog name and url in a reply to this thread. I will list them all below in the order they arrive
How to sign up:
To sign up, please list your name and blog name in a reply to this thread. I will (hopefully) update it as people sign up.

Please note that I'll be away from home for the summer. I expect I will have internet access where I'll be and will be able to keep up, but if it takes me a day or two to add you onto the the list, please just be patient.

And if you already participated, you may definitely do so again ;).

Hope you all enjoy and join up.

Eric

Blogs on the blitz to date:

1. The Drabble Dude (www.thedrabbledude.com)
2. Food Past http://www.foodpast.com
3. Virginia Lee: I aint dead yet http://virginialeenc.blogspot.com/
4. [email protected] http://blog.cathsmith.com/

5. On Literary Intent http://literaryintent.blogspot.com/
6. A View From the Waterfront http://www.harboradvice.com/blogger.html
7. The Road Less Traveled http://thoughtsontheroad.blogspot.com/
8. Offbeat Homes http://www.offbeathomes.com/
9. Center for Emotional Well Being http://www.emotionalwellbeingblog.com/
10. Nancy's Baby Names http://www.nancy.cc/
11. Marylin's Royal Blog http://www.marilynsroyalblog.blogspot.com/
12. South Jersey Outdoors http://sjoutdoors.blogspot.com/
13. Jamie Ford http://www.jamieford.com/
 
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I applaud it!!!

I had been getting a guilty conscience about not starting another but I haven't been posting much so there didn't seem much point :)
 

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I want to play again. I really enjoyed it the last time.
 

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Jennifer, I don't think we're limiting it to personal blogs, so yes you can (just let me know which blog is your work one that you want to sign up) and Talia, are you signing up? Meanwhile, I'll put up the two who definitely are in.

Eric
 
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i'm still thinking about it lol

jennifer - any blog is ok so long as any lay person can understand it and make comments.
 

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okay i've decided i'm in lol

http://www.emotionalwellbeingblog.com/
centre for emotional well-being

i'd love to include one of my other blogs but it's nz based so i don't think it would be easy for people to comment :D

jennifer - a b5media blog sounds great. will be interested to hear about your experiences with them! this is just me but 615 visitors in a week doesn't sound very much. it actually puts me off visiting ;) others probably feel differently LOL
 

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okay i've decided i'm in lol

http://www.emotionalwellbeingblog.com/
centre for emotional well-being

i'd love to include one of my other blogs but it's nz based so i don't think it would be easy for people to comment :D

jennifer - a b5media blog sounds great. will be interested to hear about your experiences with them! this is just me but 615 visitors in a week doesn't sound very much. it actually puts me off visiting ;) others probably feel differently LOL

615 isn't anything -- for a week, seriously! That's why I have the whole after bit about the actual cool blogs getting way more visitors (I meant it as a joke -- but maybe people think I'm serious? Hmmm, maybe I'll change it, although on the other hand I've gotten messages from people who say they like it). Well, now you've done it! I'm torn.

But really Balance is just my personal blog. I'm not out to make money on it I'm just out to get my thoughts out of my head. No adsense, nothing like that; it's more rants and updates for friends and family. I have it in my sig in case people want to visit -- but I don't care if you do or don't. It's just my little blog.

To put it in perspective the views I get at work blogs never average at less than 1000 (a day). But I get paid for those blogs and even 1000 page views a day is too low if I'm doing it for work (I feel). Personal blogs are different to me. But it's still amazing how many more views paid blogs get.

Take care
~ Jennifer
 
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jennifer - a b5media blog sounds great. will be interested to hear about your experiences with them!

Oh, duh. About b5. I love them!!! They are a cool bunch of people to work for and with. I've made more $ at corporate blogs to start. But some people there make a very good amount and they are generous with raises. Of course how you market and the type of blog you have with them matters when it comes to pay (I'm guessing).

They are an evolving blog network which I like. And everyone there is always helpful. I actually just got a second blogging job with them -- and this new blog is going to be super-fly. I'm way excited.

I'd encourage anyone to apply when they have openings.

~ Jennifer
 

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Hi Jennifer

B5Media sound great. Unfortunately the topics I'm qualified for seem to go within 24 hours, and always on the day I don't visit :D but I'll keep watching.

It never hurts to do a bit of promo. One good thing about AW, writers like to read and they also like to comment. I can get 2000 hits on my reality tv website and at most one comment, but my comment ratio is much higher on the well-being blog because I have writers visit.
 

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The two of you have been added. Four spots left! Get in quick.

Eric
 

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you might get some extra people joining if you put a link to this thread in your sig. that's what i always did in the last couple of days and it usually resulted in a stampede of people who had never noticed the blogging thread
 

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Talia, that would have been a good idea if I hadn't been so insanely busy this past week ;) (I didn't have much internet access and in fact I hope I can get into my blog. I need to check the PW for my admin tomorrow when I'm home (spending summer working in a camp, so I'm kinda busy and have limited internet access. . .).

At this point, we have thirteen people and maybe two more will sign up by tomorrow to fill our ranks. . .

Eric
 

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If you haven't already done so, it's time to start commenting! Get those comments in gear and then post here when you're done! I may be the slowest of all to get it done only because of my more limited access, but I'll do it.

You all have one week to get your comments in. Go!

Eric