How Commentluv Premium Promotes Your Blog

January 24, 2012

Photo by Edumigue. Every blogger wants people to visit, read, and comment. Visiting is the easy part. Type in a URL or click a link and voila. Reading is also easy, especially if the content flows smoothly and is not long. Commenting has a stigma of being hard. While it’s easy for you to comment, [...]

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Why You May Want to Date Online

January 20, 2012

The following is written by Brianna Phillips. It used to be the way to find a date was going out to the bars, being set up through mutual friends, meeting at the gym, or by merely holding onto the hope of running into a tall, dark and drop-dead gorgeous stranger in the produce section of [...]

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Introducing The Monday Muse: Your Weekly Dose of Social Media Inspiration

January 16, 2012

Whatever your reason for reading my blog, I thank you. My ideas on new and emerging media come from many places — and people comprise a large part of my inspiration. I want to share those people with you. I want to share my muses with you. Beginning in the near future, you will be [...]

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Your Right to Comment Here

January 10, 2012

Photograph by Matthew Hull. You have the right to say whatever you want online. You can say it in the comment section below or you can say it on your own blog. You can visit an internet newspaper and comment there too. But you do not have the right to expect a response. Do you [...]

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FUN: Are You a Nerd, Geek, or Dork?

January 5, 2012

The question is simple. Which are you? Photo by Anita Patterson. Thanks to an entrepreneurial OKCupid online dater, you now can take the test inside of five minutes and quickly learn which of the three identifiers most resembles you. Nerds are passionate learners. Geeks are passionate niche learners. Dorks have difficulty with social norms. With [...]

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Why I Want You to De-Lurk Again

January 3, 2012

I asked you to de-lurk three years ago today. You did. On January 3, 2009, I challenged the shy and introverted to write comments. Maybe you were in that crowd. I wondered who would write and who would reply. I mused how many people would return to read more and write more comments. I waited [...]

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Thank You to 1,183 Commentators in 2011

December 29, 2011

Who could have predicted that 1,183 distinct names wrote comments here over the past 12 months? Many names belong to the same person, such as writing “John” on some comments and “John Smith” on others, but each name represents a person who was voluntarily inspired to take moments out of their day and share thoughts. [...]

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Resolve To Do ____ for 30 Days

December 28, 2011

Matt Cutts is a smart guy. He directs a team at Google that fights web spam. He holds a doctorate in computer graphics. And, he preaches the benefits of trying new things. Here, give this guy a spin for the next 3 minutes: Is there something you aren’t doing today but would like to try [...]

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