Comments on: I’ve succumbed to pressure http://webexdesign.com/blog/2007/08/30/ive-succumbed-to-pressure/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:10:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Jim Durbin http://webexdesign.com/blog/2007/08/30/ive-succumbed-to-pressure/#comment-44 Jim Durbin Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:20:52 +0000 http://webexdesign.com/blog/2007/08/30/ive-succumbed-to-pressure/#comment-44 The use of comments is a personal decision, and has nothing to do with being a blogger. You can add my voice to the naysayers, and I get paid to teach it. Bloggers should be involved in conversations, but those conversations can take place between" blogs, as in linking, or off blogs, as in e-mails. Comments can be useful, but it's silly to say that you have to have comments in an age of comment spam. Instapundit doesn't have comments enabled - does that mean he's not a blogger? It all depends on your audience. Ignore the people who demand you have to blog their way. Most aren't interested in using blogs for business. They want it to be a happy free for all of transparency and light, which sounds nice, but won't help businesses communicate with the right audiences. Stick to your guns - and tell you what - we'll have a conversation about it between our blogs - me linking you, you linking back. Tada! Social media at its finest. The use of comments is a personal decision, and has nothing to do with being a blogger. You can add my voice to the naysayers, and I get paid to teach it.

Bloggers should be involved in conversations, but those conversations can take place
between” blogs, as in linking, or off blogs, as in e-mails.

Comments can be useful, but it’s silly to say that you have to have comments in an age of comment spam.

Instapundit doesn’t have comments enabled - does that mean he’s not a blogger?

It all depends on your audience. Ignore the people who demand you have to blog their way. Most aren’t interested in using blogs for business. They want it to be a happy free for all of transparency and light, which sounds nice, but won’t help businesses communicate with the right audiences.

Stick to your guns - and tell you what - we’ll have a conversation about it between our blogs - me linking you, you linking back.

Tada! Social media at its finest.

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