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Following on from yesterdays post on optimising your comments using email today I’d like to examine the benefits or otherwise of adding avatars / gravatars to your comments (and posting work) and ask the question of whether they should be introduced here at blogsavvy?

Avatars are nothing new. In fact I recently had the pleasure of hanging out with an absolute pioneer in the use of Avatars in blogging, Sebastian Fiedler (click on the link to his site to see what I mean!). He’s been using avatars for commentary on other bloggers posts, categorisation and more since 2002 and is…

So, if you’ve gone through the arguments for not having comments and the arguments for having them and come out on the side of commenting-your-arse-off then you are probably going to be thinking about how you can make the absolute most of them.

When you’re implementing or planning on implementing blogs in your organisation or institution there are a few things that one should always be prepared for and a few steps that will ensure your guests are delighted by your suave, sophisticated and thoughtful presentation. Step inside the blogsavvy kitchen for a quick demonstration of how you might do it for very little indeed. Ready, steady, blog )

Ingredients

First up you’re going to need a helping or two of examples / case studies to charm those that make the decisions in your delightful organisation or institution. For you education minded folks…

So I can tell you now, officially, that you will probably lose between 30 – 50% of your visits (although not necessarily page views) when you switch from providing extracted RSS feeds to full feeds.

It could also, possibly, be the case that you get fewer comments (one of the main reasons I was providing extracts was because I thought it might get me more comments), although that could equally be a result of me writing far less interesting posts ;o>

But is this a bad thing?

Back in that blogs are more than blogs frame of mind (and kicking off another couple of interesting projects) I was scribbling out some site design stuff today, going to set it up and realised ‘Wow, a year ago this would have been index.htm’.

This time round that hadn’t even popped into my mind… of course I was going to use WordPress to put it together, why would I waste my time and expend my energy on doing it any other way?

And I reckon you’d be a fool to do otherwise. Talking to Seb the other day about the…