Comments on: A Tool to Help Create a Community out of Your Blog

By: Blogging as Community Building » Slant Truth

Blogging as Community Building » Slant Truth — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:49:58 +0000

[…] Sokari and White African are on to using MyBlogLog as a means to further create community amongst bloggers. I agree. The community building potential of the web, especially by radical/transformative/progressive/leftist bloggers is huge, something that we’ve only begun to scratch the surface of. We are large. We contain multitudes. Sokari is also right, I believe, in seeing these new Web 2.0 creations as a potential way to increase the profile and online presence of otherwise marginalized bloggers (y’know, like African Women bloggers). […]

By: Blogging Ideas at African Women

Blogging Ideas at African Women — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:17:59 +0000

[…] White African posted on “how to create a community out of your blog” using MyBlogLog yet another Web2 creation that no doubt will soon be bought by Yahoo or Google. The idea is that bloggers and readers create communities by allowing you to setup a profile, claim your blog, and put a widget on it. Nothin new there right? Correct, where they differ is that the widget is populated by profiles of other who have registered on MyBlogLog and have a profile. They can choose to join your â€œcommunityâ€, or they will automatically join after 10 visits to your site. […]

By: qureyoon

qureyoon — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:00:39 +0000

hi Hash ^^ thanks for the mention,

and about the widget, it’s as eric say, you can customize the size, width, and even CSS just like you say 😉

besides, it’s alway nice to see the face of our readers, right ? 😉

By: HASH

HASH — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 01:12:49 +0000

Agreed Sokari. I can’t say that I’m that smitten with their design – of the website or of the widget. You can get into the CSS and change the look of the widget, and they have an option of a smaller widget as well. The site is out of your control though. 🙂

The community part of it is built around a particular blog. So, if you registered your blog, yours could be the blog that starts to create a community of bloggers. That’s the main idea of it. It’s a good idea, and you can see it working for particular bloggers – mainly tech ones at this point since they are the early adopters.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:30:26 +0000

Cool. I’ll give ti a try.

By: sokari

sokari — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:37:24 +0000

that widgit is way to huge and ugly to! I wouldnt want that on my side bar its too intrusive. they could have something small which you could then click on and open in new tab or whatever but as it is i like the idea of the community (love community) but that thing. By the way dont see any Africa related communities which is hardly surprising but would be nice to start one up if that is possible.
cheers

By: Voodoo Ventures - Idea Fuel Blog » How to Add MySpace Mojo To Your Blog: MyBlogLog.com

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:49:08 +0000

[…] This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for the last few weeks, and I know I’m not the first to point out what a great community building plugin MyBlogLog can be for your blog. There were rumors of a sale a couple weeks ago, and I see more and more people taking notice of MyBlogLog and adding it to their sites. […]

By: Derek Anderson

Derek Anderson — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 13:13:41 +0000

MyBlogLog also gives you the ability to remove your image from someone else’s blog.
I liked MyBlogLog so much that I spent the $25 and bought the upgrade. Not so much for the stats but for the “I want this to be profitable and stay around” factor.
I also know about sidebars that grow to huge monsters. I’ve had to condense it more than once.
Stay healthy and happy.
Derek

By: Eric Marcoullier

Eric Marcoullier — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 03:57:34 +0000

Heya! Thanks for the kind post about MyBlogLog. You are likely already aware, but you can shrink the size of the reader roll widget by using the half size photo option. We use it on the MyBlogLog blog (http://mybloglogb.typepad.com) and so does Brad Feld (http://www.feld.com).