Quickly tonight, a simple question for the New Marketing Labs Grand Pooba and Trust Agent Chris Brogan:
Why should I buy into your Third Tribe paid forum when you don’t even take time to be social on your own blog; your home that bares your given name? As part of the “baby jesus” clan, you should practice what you preach no?
You admit your failure as a social media expert when you say: (see post here)
Now, given that 45,000 people get this blog sent to them daily, and that another 170,000 people swing by the site at least once every month, and given that I’m good for usually 20 or so comments a post…
You basically begged the lurkers to post comments in this post recently, and you got 750+ comments which is great considering your average is less than 20. But you did not take the time to even respond to one comment that I could see!
Wouldn’t this have been one of those rare moments when your social side could have been used to really pull in the loyalty of these lurkers who took time to heed your call and comment?
But you were too busy with other things I guess. Too busy to be social. Being social is just about you and your wants isn’t it?
This is the impression you have been giving off for quite some time dude.
Sorry, no Third Tribe for me, not from what I see. Chris Brogan = FAIL!
To my regular readers, this is a DO Follow blog and interaction is encouraged. Pretty simple: this blog is for you and about you and designed to help you! (just no more beer and f-bombs LOL) 
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Dang no more Beer! I grabbed one as soon as I saw you posted! Lol. It was a Wheat beer which is not my favorite but oh well its beer. But on to the good stuff.
As for the post your right about the fact he passed a huge opportunity to bring in more readers by replying to comments. I don’t see how you don’t replay to comments on your site. I would be pulled in to reply even if I didnt have the time. I would just make time to do it. I don’t know, but I have made the leap into marketing the IM niche which I have been putting off for years now. Its more a blog to explain to the people I know personally on how I make money online. That way I don’t have to repeat myself a thousand times over at every gathering we have. I might even have to break out the HD Cam and make some video posts.
The truth is that it seems that those guys have no sales experience. And they don’t realize that making more loyal customers, brings in more customers through the loyal ones:) Have a good weekend man! Go Saints!
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Ha Jason, Saints eh??? Well, I am a Peyton Manning fan, so we will see how it goes.
Anyway, you bring up some good points. First off, wheat beers are just fine, helps your bowels. LOL
I get it too, about doing the IM thing as a way to explain what you do, I have pointed friends here as well. And if you do vids, all the better! IMO
as far as the topic at hand… What’s ironic and even hypocrital to me is that Brogan is the self described social media guy who is only social, it seems, when companies are paying him to be or in the case of Third Tribe, when bloggers are paying him to be social. That flat out smells bad to me.
As far as them needing sales experience, I think they need real world experience in general. I dunno Brogan’s job history, but I suspect he never had a real job, and if he did, it was not in a leadership roll.
AL
Here’s another fun update. The Copyblogger had a post about this and Sonia Simone wrote it (she is another part of Third Tribe though I don’t know her background) the post is here
ANyway, there are 25 comments on the post and Sonia replied only twice. Not really very social if you’re not paid for it I guess.
Haha well I just chose them cause they haven’t been before. I am from Texas so you know who I cheer for. I have a buddy that is from Chicago that I served with in the Navy. I miss all the trash talk about each others teams lol.
And you are probably right about him never having a real job. And like you said, you would think if you asked for comments you could at least give a response or two somewhere. I just went and checked it out again, and with over 700 plus comments I didn’t find one from him.
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@jason– I would like to see the underdog Saints at least give a good challenge. The beer goes down better if the score is close, LOL
Seriously though, 750 comments is freaking awesome considering his average is 20. Kind of a strange swing really. I am sure there is a post just in that part, but it is late and I gotta hit the pillow.
I want to see the Saints win just because horrible franchises such as New Orleans and Tampa Bay will have then won the Super Bowl, but the Minnesota Vikings have not.
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yeah call me old-fashioned – but surely its 2-way communication thing that happens in the comments? They all do it copyblogger, problogger – I managed to get more response out of Darren on his launch post than there hasd been for months on his blog – just cause I gave another commentator some advice! No wonder they have to keep on posting more fluff – there is never any decent conversation going on in the comments – I mean if you only read Grizz’s osts – not the comments – you’d miss all the good stuff. A rather tasty New Zealand, Hawke’s Bay Cab Merlot tonight …
Brother I think it’s a valid point and it’s interesting to see you back it up with facts, no video? Maybe it’s good to let the facts do the talking.
Brother we must be physcicly linked my latest post talks about the importance of creating a mini forum at the end of each post, having a community is what put your site where it is, other people spread your content, take the time to comment and then promote it all for free, the very least a website owner can do is reply.
I’d be interested to see how many feel the same way, subscribing to this post
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Found your site through Griz, really glad I did – watched a bunch of your videos yesterday and I love your style. Wanted to check out your beer site too but it was down, hoping that was just a temporary thing.
Keep telling it like it is!
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Hi Allyn,
I pretty much reply to each comment on my post, if not all. I’m raking in the comments on some posts. However, what you’ll find is that half are mine.
Now that I’ve got a team of ten regular writers on my site, I also have to remind them that the reputation I want for my blog is that all comments will be replied to. I sent an email out to the the writers this week telling them to own their posts and leverage my audience and build relationships with the readers and not to let my reputation suffer in the matter.
I’m shocked Chris Brogan didn’t leave a single comment on that post where he asked for comments. Lol! Oh well, even the Beatles made the odd faux pas.
Enjoyed this short and sweet post, Allyn.
Cheers!
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@Gary– hey man, when the Bucs won it back when Alstot played for them, they were unstoppable! That defense was top notch. But now, not so much. I really did want to see the VIkes go this year. Favre is pretty much right up there with Don Johnson in my man-crush book. Plus, it’s fun to hear the commentators make verbal love to him when he is on the field. ROFL
@lissie — THis really is something I cannot understand; the fact that the “heavies” or the “baby jesus bloggers” as I call them, don’t get social on their sites. There has to be a reason for it, and I don’t buy the David Risley “we’re too busy” line seeing as most of these guys rarely get more than 30 comments anyway…. who knows, maybe they don’t want more comments and free content spread across varied IPs. BTW– Gary Vaynerchuk says Australian wines are great, so you are fortunate!
@infodude– yeah man, you have done an incredible job building a ginormous community around your site in a very short time. Now go “milk” that audience for some money and make me proud! (just kidding!!!!)
@epoxy– hey, let’s talk about you for a minute! Love that epoxy floor site! A REAL WORLD niche with good content! Good on you.
Beer site has been taken down on purpose, long story, but I did a podcast on it about 4 or 5 posts ago.
@Gordie– you have been another that I have enjoyed watching. Your team blog approach is very cool and you’re all good writers. But you GOrdie, you totally look like a guy that I could site down and eat some wings and drink some beer(s) with. You just come across as a good dude.
Anyway, I did notice that you make sure that you get in on the comments, and I actually think that is cool that you, as the site owner, are very active in all the posts even if you didn’t write them. I am watching you man, wishing you success!
And as far as the Beetles, let me tell you man, McCartney can do not WRONG! EVER!
Thanks Allyn, still have a lot of work to do on the site but it’s a start!
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Allyn,
Thanks for that link, and interesting post, I don’t read Brogans blog anyway so missed that, but 750 comments is good… have to ask though, why only 20 average with huge reader numbers like that?
Surely that is a very crap % considering.
Brogan is a smug looking bloke in all his pics for some reason, it is off putting seeing it, maybe he is just…smug?
Funny none of them commented on any of these post that tell it for what it is, crap. Third tribe = mugs.
Rob
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Hi Rob– that’s the thing, I can’t figure out why he only gets 20 comments when he has ALL those subs and twitter followers. I have to assume that he does not believe in being social in his own spaces, which if he is consulting businesses and telling them this same philosophy, he’s a friggin idiot! LOL And, yeah, he does have a smug, stoic look to him,,, but a nice goatee trim-job,
Allyn, still very appreciative of a great time at lunch last week. I have some follow up thoughts and ideas for our next conversation on collaboration and engagement. As for Chris Brogan I normally find him to be pretty engaging … he has responded to me on twitter and on his blog. He even came over and commented on mine recently. I bet he’ll stop in here.
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@steve– cool man, lunch was a lot of fun and it’s good to connect with real people that I have been watching for years now (like you)
I do hope Brogan engages, especially since he is selling a paid forum nowadays.
But in the grand scheme of things, 20 comments average on a social media blog with 45K subs is just plain strange to me. Maybe people just have a different idea of how social media is supposed to work.
BTW– steve, if you know of a local biz that would like some free Social Media work/networking, lemme know, i am looking to do a case study of a bricks and mortar biz in SM.
Hey Allyn!
I actaully left a comment on that post from Brogan just to see if I’d get a reply. (I didn’t).
Seems a littl ridiculous to ask for comments in a post and then noyt follow up with any of the comments. What IS THAT?
Anyhow, your last sentence sparked my interest in particular
I’d really appreciate it if you’d leave a comment (along with the 48 other comments) on my blog post about how people are using social media to boost local business. The commentluv link below will take you to the post.
Thanks!
BTW – I like the transparent backgound you’re using in your vids. (I wonder if Camtasia has that functionality…).
Cheers bud!
- Don
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hey Don, I will be right over!
I dunno how Camtasia works, never used it. But maybe I will now.
I have no idea who this Brogan fellow is but not replying to any comments sucks, not cool at all!
I appreciate the time you take to reply to everyone… Not much said here in my comment though so no reply needed
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I’m staying away from the “Turd Tribe” controversy this time, Allyn. The social blogging nightmare is just too much for me to handle these days.
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Cheers, Allyn. If you ever make it to Dunedin, New Zealand I’ll shout you a tour of Speights Brewery. Possibly the worst tasting beer in the world, but hey it’s still beer.
One thing. Have you considered having threaded comments on here so people can reply directly under other people’s comments. It may make it even easier to have a discussion or several discussions at once.
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@gordie– someone stuck you in akismet hell so I had to pull you out buddy. Anyway, yes I will be adding threaded comments when I do a theme change here soon. I would love to visit NZ. From the pics my friend Lis has showed me, it’s a great place. and any beer is good beer LOL
Allyn, glad to see you going after the crap for what it is, CRAP!
I followed Chris Brogan for about 2.2 seconds a couple of years ago, but I am not interested in people that give off that feeling that they are too good, or better than you and can’t take the time to reply to even a few comments.
I have noticed Risley replying to more comments since the A-List bashing that went on last month and the month before,so maybe he has changed his mind on that (doubtful).
I will be honest, I am not going to go read those articles on tribal stink poo or whatever it is called, because I just don’t have time tobe concerned with their BS anymore. I have plenty going on with my own sites and I plan to make 2010 my year.
PS: This would havebeen SO MUCH BETTERdone the “old” Allyn way with a good old fashioned video post, beer drinking, f-bombing, thrashing the idiots! But this worked too I guess.:-)
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I think one of the main reasons why he only averaged 20 comments a post was really due to the fact that he doesnt ever respond to anything of them. Why would you post a comment if you already know your not going to get a response. This time around he asked people to post and they probably thought they would get a little something. Who knows but I know I never post if I know the person doesn’t respond at all. I just dont see what the point would be to do so other than to get some link juice.
Jason Z.
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Maybe he should just turn off comments on his blog (like some other well-know bloggers) have if there is no two-way interaction with the readers. Not everyone is on Twitter so does that ’social interaction’ really work?
I agree with Jason Z “Why would you post a comment if you already know your not going to get a response.” I know I wouldn’t be commenting on a site that doesn’t even bother to make the attempt to answer.
Karen
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Allyn,
Not to sure about the goatee!!
He only cares about his “touchpoints” as long as it’s everyone else touching his points!
So, who is gonna start the fourth tribe?
The tribe who don’t conform to all this crap.
Oh, wait, they exist, “everyone else” I think.
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@Forest– some people just don’t get social media though they claim they are at the forefront. And that is the problem, they lead when they should be following.
ROFL, touchpoints or the turd tribe!
@Rt– yeah, I was gonna stay out of it too, but I wanted to show that I can have opinions without dropping drunken F-bombs like in the past, LOL
@keith– yeah Risley has gotten more social and good on him! And he is very busy with his Fluff Club too, so if he can take time, others can too. SOrry to disappoint on the f-bombs, maybe I will work one up and let it fly sometime again, but doubtful lol
@jason– you hit it on the head…people stop commenting cuz they never get answered anyway. Now Brogan will say that he does his responding on twitter, but I say that’s just dumb becuase you don’t own that space, someone else does… very dangerous!
@karen– yep, and this is why our friend Sire wrote that post recently talking about why he won’t link to or comment on A-list blogs anymore either… no response or interaction.
@rob —
Social media types that don’t answer comments really seem to rub you the wrong way, don’t they?
I don’t think I mind that much. Granted, asking for comments and then not answering them is very strange. That makes it seem like it’s all just about the comment count (“mine is bigger than yours”), which is certainly the wrong approach.
But in general, I don’t think a blogger has an obligation to reply to every reply.
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@Allyn if you go to the cold hole of Dunedin with Gordie – you sure better swing by the cold hold of Wellington – we have bars hree too – I think some of the sell beer (I’ll check for you …)
@Shane- I agree a blogger doesnt have to reply to every one because if you had 750 comments it would just be impossible and maintain your business. It is just that people have questions and want answers. Seeing that your answering several questions gives them hope that theirs might be next, and they get to learn from the other questions as well.
Take care of your people and they will take care of you. Its goes a long way in the real world market and in the online market. Most of my work(day job) comes in from referrals that my current customers brought in.
And for the IM niche itself I would think it would be beneficial due to the fact that you will get more people to give you link love as well
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@shane, Jason hit it on the head, and I will add that Brogan is a SOCIAL MEDIA guy to boot! that would be like having an oil filter blog yet you don’t change your oil in your own car. see?
@lissie– I tell you what, if I can ever get my inner Tim Ferris working, NZ and Australia are at the top of my list!
Yeah, I agree. Building relationships with your customers is really essential. Though I can also say that it can become very difficult. One of my businesses is practically built on the relationship I have to people in that market, but the volume of e-mail requests I get is becoming very difficult to keep up with… It’s kind of a catch-22. If I keep doing what makes the business successful (taking special care of each and every customer), I maneuver myself into a position where I no longer have a life.
Anyway, I agree that caring matter a lot (as Gary V likes to say). And I didn’t mean to defend the Third Tribe thing. Just wanted to mention that.
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@shane– I see your point. Tim Ferris talks about this concept. Sometimes you have to drop customers who cost you more time than they are worth in revenue. But that is not really a “social media” concept.
Tribes..heh…apparently we are regressing as a species. Well that goes along with my end-of-the-roman-empire theory that western civilization is doomed to a new dark ages again…’cept we’ll have computers and tv’s and shit this time. Who’s gonna be the monkey with the bone (2001 a space odyssey reference) and start the war with the other tribes? More importantly, who’s gonna be the big black obelisk? Man, I’m just full of stupid movie references today.
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Man I think I found home but your way to nice
Click that link above. That post happen after listen to this over rated cry baby Goof and TRUST ME it takes a lot for an Irish guy to piss me off 
Nice work on the post Awesome
As far as the SILENCE from Darren when I told him I thought Third Crime was a straight up rip off and to see Mr BragAGAIN spouting the merits if such a pathetic CASH grab from suckers and Reading Andy’s Beards post I will just say it’s sad that people that have been LUCKY and Blessed aren’t satisfied and look for new and better ways to screw their OWN people
Holy shix John, you are bad ass my man.
here is the post if anyone want to see it: watch the YouTube near the bottom fo sho:
http://potpolitics.com/2010/01/05/chris-brogan-trust-agent-you-are-that-guy-u-goof/
John, aren’t you in FLA?? I am a St pete native man, you and me’s may have run in the same circles, dunno.
Being social is exactly that, it involves others and quite simply if someone was talking to you on a night out and you weren’t responding then I think you’d say they were being rude.
very good analogy Matthew. It’s about giving and so many “experts” don’t get it.
I have studiously avoided Third Tribe because I have been a joiner of most everything coming down the pike for over a year and then have been disappointed – not with the information provided but with the way it conforms to who I am and where I am willing to go. I am taking a cautious course about signing on and I am trying to complete things that I start so that I know what they really are.
Just to give Chris credit. I once posted about how his newsletter got me out of a funk. This was back when, as far as I could tell nobody was reading me. I got an encouraging comment on the post from Chris himself. I have to say I was impressed.
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Ralph– that’s great man, I am glad Brogan hooked you up with some encouragement!
As far as paying for info, I wouldn’t recommend it. Just like you mentioned, you gotta do your thing! and that comes with testing and trying a lot all on your own.
Allyn,
New gravatar and email. Does it make any difference?
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Ralph– still ended up in spam. so the next thing to is use your basic URL in the “website” section instead of a post permalink. maybe that long permalink is triggering the spam filter.
What can I say Al. I think I’ve been pushing the importance of comments for some time now, and you know what I think about those guys. I’ve seen them push the third tribe thing and saw it as just another way to get more cash out of people.
It’s obvious why they do it. Their cash flow is obviously drying up and they have to think of new ways to keep the money rolling in so that they can keep their current lifestyle.
Shit, if things get really bad you may see them actually get involved in the comment section.
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I had the same thought, that maybe Darren and those guys were needing more money. I dunno how the world economy is at the moment, but here in the US, things are getting worse and I have seen a definite plunge in my earnings.
It hasn’t hit as hard in Australia but then our banks weren’t as dumb as yours. We were hit more for our affiliations with you guys, everything you guys do affects us over here, than anything else.
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I read “baby jesus” and immediately want to watch Talladega Nights. Thanks, I’m going to being hearing that all night {stupid earworms, they’re not just for songs anymore}.
I apparently follow Mr. Brogan on Twitter, not that I’ve ever been to his blog. Guess it was just one of those things I did when I first signed on and never thought anymore about it. And Mr. John Sullivan posted a few of your video spoofs which were just fantastic and of course here I am leaving mindless crap in the comments of your blog.
I have nothing to add other than I have enjoyed what I’ve seen so far and will probably peruse the archives. And just to show you I’m not spamming I unchecked comment luv.
Hi Anne, first off, this is all do-follow over here, so please, next time, go ahead and get the comment link!
Next, you are the first to get the Talladega night ref to tthe baby! Good on you!
Finally, John Sullivan is a good dude, better than most I have met around the blog world!
thank you for stopping over and joining the convo!
AL
This is my first time here (coming from John Sullivans Pot Politics) and I can tell by this post that I am going to love this place, there’s nothing that pisses me off more then the social gurus who are never even social. Unreal, it’s a joke.
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Hey Extremist John! (lol, I modified your adjective)
Thanks for coming by. You and me are from the same hoods, I grew up in St Pete. Dunno your age, but we may have traded 2-player on Ms Packman or Qubert back in the day over at Tyrone Mall.
I went to St Pete High. I played tennis and sax,,,, I was a true badass. Ok, enough, this is sounding like some freaking eharmony profile, LOL
AL
About bloody time you got the the ‘threaded comment’s working on this blog. I was wearing out the damn mouse scrolling up and down the damn posts.
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Hey John, it’s good to know that I finally beat you to something man. You may have all the sheilas but I know where to hang out
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Al, I just wanted to quickly mention that I slapped in a minor, anchored link for this while attempting to write a super long post. I failed to reach my goal and that’s only because I ran out of relevant things to write. You might find it slightly humorous.
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RT–thanks man, I will shoot right over there to checkit out. Oil filters are my fave subject!
Allyn, This probably isn’t the best place for my question, but should you get the chance to respond then great. I’ve been writing articles to different directories, I guess I have two questions.
Am I supposed to use different e-mail addresses for them or something? I saw griz ripping on a guy about having all his stuff on the same “class 4 IP address?” I don’t understand that, maybe you do?
I haven’t seen much come back from my articles. I was up to 54 backlinks, sent out like 5 or 6 articles and now I’m at 53? Just curious. I’ve only been at this for about a month now, just curious if it’s normal for links to go up and down.
Anyways, thanks for the good information you do. I’ve got Griz, The Keyword Academy (as soon as I sign back up, it does seem worth the 33 a month I guess), and now you that I’m staying up to date on and trying to learn.
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Hi JB– Griz was talking about Class C IP and I believe he meant keeping your own sites off of the same IP addy. You also want your links pointing to you coming off of different IP addys. THis is to enhance the “natural” look of the links. But with 53 links, it will not matter to you at this point. I only get concerned about this when I get up around 1500 or more links.
As far as the links showing up and disappearing, that is because they don’t stay indexed. I have a post coming out today about this very subject. stay tuned!
AL
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Interesting challenge to Mr. Brogan It amazes me how these ‘third tribe’ guys hold themselves out as being somehow superior the the rest of the “fools” as one of them recently called me and other “non-tribe” wanderers.
If you have abog, and you choose to run with comments open, as the vast majority do, then I submit you have an obligation to answer all but the most trivial of contents. You are engaging in a social contract, so to speak when you start the blog … it’s kind of like people who start making some money and then sream when their country asks for taxes due …hey it’s easy to legally avoid taxes … just don’t make money.
I really dislike the whole ‘third tribe’ promo and concept … it’s very ‘last century’ elitist and has more than few tones of discrimination/racism involved.
I belong to the tribe of mankind, I don’t consider myself superior to any other man or woman, and I think to do so takes us back to the days when people were proud to be in the KKK, the Third Reich and other exclusionary organizations.
One of the great attractions to the Internet for me is, I interact daily with people from all walks of life, for countries all over the globe and folks of all different age grups and socio-economic layers. I think exclusionary tribes are wrong from their very inception, and I am particularly sad that a man I always considered a friend, Darren Rose, has chosen to align himself so strongly with this movement.
Sign me ‘the tribes-les one’.
Hi Dave, thank you for stopping in and adding to the convo.
I think you look at the issue a little deeper than I, and that’s cool.
For me, it’s just a matter of the “too big for your britches” syndrome. You might also call it arrogance.
Either way, it’s sad as hell to see!
AL
Begging lurkers to comment and then leaving them out in the cold is pretty poor hom.
I’ll admit though, some blogs have discussion-based commenting, and some have linear BUT the bloggers are reciprocating on each others’ blogs so no actual reply is expected. But I like the threaded commenting and just turned it on on my blog.
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Wow! I’m late to this party, but glad I had the opportunity to read this post. I didn’t see any mention of reading Brogan’s book, Trust Agents. I’ve never met Chris Brogan, but I liked the book.
I agree with Karen – if you have too many followers, turn off comments. I rarely comment on an A-Listers blog – I know that chances are most of them will not respond, and if I have something to add, I may as well share it in another forum.
I recently posted this Trust Agents Don’t Betray Trust
Thanks for the opportunity to give my opinion and thanks for the link love.
Allyn, it’s been a while, but every time I drop in here you make me laugh. Good grief, it’s been a rotten day. I’ve been reading through Griz’s archives and I had to come over and say hi. Keep doing what you do. (as if you wouldn’t)
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thanks Josh.. got a very important vid coming out either tomorrow late or sunday! keep up the good work, congrats on the year
Personally, I think what’s the point in writing a blog that allows comments if you don’t interact with them.
Either have the comments enabled and respond to them, or just disable the comments if you can’t be bothered.
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