Sarah Arrow

I am always looking at ways of adding value to my blogs. From welcoming visitors to encouraging comments, (as well as interesting content)  I look at ways to engage with the blogs readership and make it a worthwhile experience for all involved.

One way you can do this is through plugins -  if you have a WordPress self hosted site. If you don’t have one, then drop me a line and i’ll introduce you to Barbara Saul, the Blog Mistress and you can take it from there. Creative use of plugins can make your blog inviting and non threatening, a small community in it’s own right, so what ones are good for your blog?

How do you engage with some of the comment authors on blogs you visit? For example you are reading a blog post and one of the commenter’s is witty and helpful, you find them interesting but where do you go from there? You click through and find their blog or website but are hesitant about getting in touch as it all seems just a fraction too stalkerish

I have just discovered  Twitterlink comments. This adds a little field to the comment box where the commenter can add their Twitter ID.

You can follow them and continue to get to know them on twitter as well as through blogs. As the relationship and conversation grows they may follow back to your blog and get to know you, and comment there. Less stalkery more relationship building

You can download it from here http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/twitterlink-comments.zip

Try it out and let me know what you think by adding a comment below and  tell me what other plugins you recommend.

Sarah

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