Comments on: Reader Devo Bhava!

By: Idea Smith

Idea Smith — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 07:18:03 +0000

@S.R.Ayyangar: I’m guessing you meant Blogspot (not Blogpost?). I visited your blog and the comments section seems to be working fine. You can reply to your readers using the same form. It would be good for you to be signed in and then reply so you don’t need to enter your URL and name details again. There are a number of sites that give you code to spruce up this section by offering a ‘reply to each comment’ button and others. Personally, I’d advise you to keep it clean of add-ons unless absolutely required since they may get obsolete or wrong installation may mess another part of your code.

For Top Commenters, see this link: http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2008/06/top-commentators-widget-for-blogger.html

All the best!

By: S.R.Ayyangar

S.R.Ayyangar — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 03:38:25 +0000

I feel it is important for any blogger to respond to the comments post on the post. Unfortunately, my blog from ‘Blogpost’ has neither provision to reply nor a widget that lets me display Top Commenter. How to go about it?

By: Idea Smith

Idea Smith — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:23:15 +0000

@Looking4Purpose: I’d say (from personal experience), one writes from a desperate, overwhelming, all-encompassing need to be heard, seen, understood. It is validation, it is recognition in the most fundamental way possible. It is that sense of “I am not invisible! I am heard. I am understood. Thus, I am!”

@Zeenat: Absolutely! And, thank you! 🙂

By: Zeenat{Positive Provocations}

Zeenat{Positive Provocations} — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:43:13 +0000

HI IdeaSmithy,
Love this article. Thank you fro sharing your wonderful insights here. Any good blog must think from the readers perspective. After all they are who we are writing for 🙂
Much Love,
Z~

By: Looking4 Purpose

Looking4 Purpose — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:22:20 +0000

this is so true, if you we didn’t care about readers why are we writing?

By: BlogAdda 11: Reader Devo Bhava! « The Idea-smithy

BlogAdda 11: Reader Devo Bhava! « The Idea-smithy — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:15:33 +0000

[…] My post on BlogAdda this week, talks about building a relationship with your reader community. This would seem a little odd to people who knew me 6 years ago, in my early blogging days. Yes, I used to be a touch-me-not blogger who wouldn’t respond to comments or any correspondence from my readers. But much has changed since then, my own attitude the least of them all. […]