Tag Archives: community

Supporting Your Most Valued Communities Without WIIFM

By Andy Beard | Published: November 30, 2007

Awards such as the Open Web Awards are a great way for members of a community to show support for the free services they find valuable, and giving something back to the people who run them.

What's In It For Me?

Honestly… nothing directly, unless the community owner pays you to vote for them, either directly or with prizes.
I must admit I am not a big supporter of offering prizes and gifts to encourage participation. As an example I can encourage you to join the Collective Thoughts Community on MyBlogLog, but I am not going to offer a specific incentive.
I have

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Traffic Or Topical Community – What Comes First?

By Andy Beard | Published: September 22, 2007

I have been discussing various kinds of blogging community widgets as a core topic for close to 10 months now, first Mybloglog, then Bumpzee, and shortly after Blogcatalog.

From every single one of those communities I have possibly gained more traffic than I have given them in return, though it is very difficult to judge exactly when you start gaining traffic, and maybe that isn't really the point. You can't easily track RSS clicks to a site unless you destroy the SEO advantages of syndication by having nice clean links and ultimately you hope for people to discover you once, and

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MyBlogLog With Yahoo Logins & Mosaic Of My Community

By Andy Beard | Published: September 5, 2007

Lets start with the mosaic, as writing about it has been on my "to do" list for a few days.

Maurizo is a regular reader and talented programmer has come up with a great idea for community appreciation, a community mosaic.

I know this has taken him a great deal of time to accomplish, because he first of all asked me for a high resolution photo over a month ago.

First of all here is a baby version of his amazing mosaic

If you want to see the full size version you will have to click through to see the full community

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MyBlogLog Community Join Buttons (Important)

By Andy Beard | Published: May 21, 2007

Eric from MyBlogLog just pinged me about an important item that I know is relevant to a number of my readers. The MyBlogLog join buttons many have in their sidebars.

Unfortunately some people decided to abuse things a little using Iframes and the join link, thus MBL were forced to switch the links off.

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Bloggers Choice Award – Want More Votes? (group project)

By Andy Beard | Published: April 14, 2007

Bloggers Choice AwardsI have spent some time today scrolling through the hundreds, neigh thousands of blogs that have so far been nominated for the Bloggers Choice Awards.

It is damn hard finding you!

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Exclusive: No Nofollow | I Follow | DoFollow Bumpzee Community

By Andy Beard | Published: April 13, 2007
Bumpzee
I Follow
I Follow

For a long time I have been promising myself to build a community site for the Dofollow movement I strongly support, but it just wasn’t happening fast enough to support the growing community.

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MyBlogLog News (significant)

By Andy Beard | Published: April 7, 2007

I guessed about a week ago that Robyn might be going to work for MyBlogLog as their community manager from reading Robyn on Twitter and matching that up with hints on the MyBlogLog blog. The dates gave it all away.

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How to Use MyBlogLog

By Andy Beard | Published: March 29, 2007

One of the most frequent questions regarding MyBlogLog is how to use it effectively to gain something… anything… from taking part.

To get the most from MyBlogLog you have to use it as an aid in finding blogs that are interesting, and then actually join the conversation on the other blogs. Spam message either through MBL, or on a blog you visit aren’t going to bring you subscribers, future business partners, and friends.

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MyBlogLog API – How Far Forward Are You Thinking

By Andy Beard | Published: March 26, 2007

MyBlogLogMashups utilizing 3rd party services are a growing and competitive market, and only people who are fast on their feet get the chance to grab mind share with early adopters. Rarely is there a chance to take advantage of an API – before it is available.

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Social Proof is the Primary Benefit of MyBlogLog and BUMPzee Widgets

By Andy Beard | Published: February 13, 2007

I have actually been planning to write an article on social proof with widgets for some time. Farkfan in a recent comment on my Clickbank Disclosure post was questioning my positioning of subscription boxes in the primary real estate on the top of my page and part of my response included.

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