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Why This Blog’s Community Rocks

October 1, 2010 27 Comments
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A blog’s community can be many things.

It can be long-term subscribers; it can be first time visitors. It can be “only” readers; it can be regular commenters. It can be every day attendees; it can be folks that visit once then read every other post from a feed, never to visit the actual blog again.

One thing that every single member of a blog community has in common, though, is the connection to each other through the blog (and vice versa).

And that connection can be the very heartbeat that keeps a blog alive.

If a blog’s community is the heartbeat then you, the folks that make up this blog’s community, must have one of the strongest communal beats around, because you have some of the biggest hearts.

You showed that yesterday when I asked for a “birthday wish” to celebrate this blog’s two-year anniversary. You showed it when you granted that wish and visited the blog of a girl called Stacey Monk and showed her she wasn’t alone in her sadness, and that you were there with support if and when she needed it.

When people ask why I blog, the answer I give more than any is this: because of the community.

I already considered myself hugely fortunate to have you here, to have you read my thoughts and share yours in the comments afterward.

I can safely replace “hugely fortunate” with “full-on blessed”.

Thank you for being you.

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About Danny

Danny Brown is Chief Technologist at ArCompany and an award-winning marketer and blogger. His blog is recognized as the #1 marketing blog in the world by HubSpot. Danny is also co-author of Influence Marketing: How to Create, Manage and Measure Brand Influencers in Social Media Marketing.

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garious1
garious1

This is something news; I haven't thought that blogging alone can inspire this spirit of a community - which people do a lot on social networking sites. Kudos! ( for being one of the real and rare bloggers online )

mmangen
mmangen

I missed your birthday blog --- however, accept this as a belated Happy Birthday. And...I'm heading over to Stacey's blog now.

RoseDesRo
RoseDesRo like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 2 Like

Danny I dropped by and left your friend a comment. Happy Blogaversity. Community is what makes a blog.

jennalanger
jennalanger moderator like.author.displayName 1 Like

@RoseDesRo I read that as "blogaversary" (which is maybe what you meant?) but I think it's my new favorite word :)

jennalanger
jennalanger moderator like.author.displayName 1 Like

I'm so happy to have found your blog and I feel like I am really connecting with you, your content, and your community. You are a major part of the Livefyre community and it's been great watching people build relationships through blogs like yours. Keep on rocking!

Danny Brown
Danny Brown moderator

@jennalanger Thanks Jenna - I'm really enjoying Livefyre and it's the perfect complement to any community. :)

FrankDickinson
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Danny -

Thank you for sharing yourself with us - we are all made better because of it.

Blessings my friend.

Danny Brown
Danny Brown moderator

@FrankDickinson Cheers, sir - if there's a person that knows community, it's you, sir, so very glad to have you part of this one.

Lance
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Danny,
Community is truly what makes blogging so meaningful to me, too. And what you have created here in this space is something special. That shines through so brightly always...and even more so with your caring post yesterday.

....showing care creates care...

Danny Brown
Danny Brown moderator

@Lance Couldn't agree more (obviously) on the community angle, Lance, and thank you, sincerely, for your kind words and being part of this amazing one. :)

AskAaronLee
AskAaronLee like.author.displayName 1 Like

We are the lucky once to have you share your thoughts Danny.

Ohh btw, I have a question to ask. Recently I tried to add comments on numerous wordpress blogs. I notice none of my comments were going through. So i posted another and they said "duplicate content, you already said that" something like that.

I notice most of them are wordpress blogs and not comment system like this one, commentluv or disqus. Only wordpress comment system like the one on likeable media.

Ohh! i went off topic.

Aaron

Danny Brown
Danny Brown moderator

@AskAaronLee Well thanks, Aaron, really appreciate that. :)

Yeah, I've seen that happen a few times on different blogs. Not sure if it's a conflict with any plug-ins that might be running, or that the theme hasn't been updated to be WordPress 3.0 compliant? But it does throw you for a loop!

byderekj
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I too care about my community. Not saying you don't, but what also drives me are other people's communities like yours.

Robcairns
Robcairns like.author.displayName 1 Like

Danny, I am lucky that I know you and that I have had a chance to share with you all the time. You make a difference to me and our blog community. For that I want to say thank you:)

Robcairns
Robcairns

@Danny Brown Agreed my friend. Just been crazy. After losing my Dad during the summer it's been nuts but we will make it happen soon. :) Have an amazing weekend and lets talk next week to see if we can work it out.

Danny Brown
Danny Brown moderator

@Robcairns Thanks, Rob, been a pleasure getting to know you over the last few months. That drink in Toronto must be getting nearer, no? ;-)

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