Be the first or among the first to follow a new blogger. It will make their day knowing they are building an audience. Remember the days when you first started blogging and how when someone you had never met before liked a post or followed your blog. Making connections through blogging can be a great way to expand ones horizons.
It’s good to encourage people to keep on blogging and to make this process fun.
I am a middle-aged dork and it always amazes me when I get younger followers. Many of them are like half my age. I am not all that cool y’all. Sometimes my efforts to be relevant come across as being silly or head shaking. Maybe people like genuine people no matter what time of life they are in.
Thanks for your interest and friendship anyway.
Congratulations on getting 100 total follows on The Blog of Tony Burgess!
I have been “back” with WordPress for almost a week and I am daily impressed by the system of blogging and social engagement here. There are some great people I have connected with who are doing some great, original content. Built in commentary and the ability to like user posts make this a great system of content management, blogging and other cool things.
Will I continue to use WordPress? Yes I will. Will I abandon Tumblr? No. My plan is to use both in a way that each blog will have some similar and some different content. I do think WordPress is a superior blogging platform and its something I need to know more about because my work could call upon it. There is a culture of users here who are loyal and the opportunities to go to camps and workshops about blogging excites me.
Keep on blogging good people! Thanks for your connections.
I am now using the Motif theme and I think it looks a little more polished and more suited to my personality. What do you think? Many of you inspire me in what you do with your blogs content and function. Your feedback is welcome!
Friends, my time with WordPress has been a very positive experience. There are a lot of people doing creative and original things there. A lot of full featured posts with in-depth writing and sharing of ideas and experiences. Thanks to all who are following me here, I appreciate each of you.
What I have discovered is that as a social platform its not the greatest, well Tumblr has its shortcomings too but that’s beside the point. This is a platform for all ages but its a place where you will find a more mature audience.
The site gives you loads of customizing options along with lots of ways to connect with others across the web. At its heart its a content management system where you control what you want to post. One can cross-post to Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr.
It is not as easy as Tumblr so you have to do some homework and lots of experimenting to make things work the way you want.
It has a dashboard like feature where you can read blogs you are following and it has a built in commentary system. You can’t do anything anonymously there which is something I like very much. They put a lot into keeping spam to a minimum.
As I discover more, I will share with you what I find. I will admit I like it a lot and I need to figure out how to use both sites to expand my social reach and to be more engaged with fellow bloggers.
I advise to go ahead and claim the name you want there. If things go south quick with Tumblr you want to be ready to pick up your posting elsewhere. Hopefully your followers will migrate with you.
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