Last week, bloggers Mother Reader and Lee Wind began a Comment Challenge for fellow bloggers. I jumped in this week--better late than never--and it's been a valuable experience. Not exactly what I expected, but valuable.The purpose of the Comment Challenge is to encourage community among writers and bloggers. To network. I love that idea. The question is, is that what I'm accomplishing by posting more comments on more blogs? I'm still deciding. Here's what I've noticed so far:
- I'm reading a lot more blogs. (Yay!)
- I'm posting on my own blog less frequently! (Bummer)
- By commenting on others' blogs, I'm drawing readers to try out this one. (Yay!)
- This takes a lot of time. (Bummer)
- I'm discovering some blogs that I love. (Yay!)
- ...but my list of unread blogs in Google Reader is growing faster than I can read them. (Crimeny!)
Maybe the key, for me, will be a happy medium. Hmm. I'm sounding like my mother!
But then, she turned out to be a pretty smart lady after all.
:) Cheryl
I am also doing the comment challenge and have noticed some of the same things. I am reading more blogs and then I realized I wasn't blogging on my own blog as much. So I got a little stressed, but I think I will find a balance somewhere.
ReplyDeleteI have loved learning about and meeting new people so it's definitely been worth it and I hope to get faster at making comments.
Hi! Good to hear it's not just me :). Let me know if you find that balance....~C
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