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…

Last night on Twitter, I was part of the #sbt10 chat, part of the Start Blogging Today project (disclosure – I’m a partner in the project). As usual, there were a ton of great topics discussed on how to make your blog work better for you. One of the conversations that arose was how to reward loyalty – i.e., how to make sure that your blog community knows you appreciate them. Michael Schechter asked how you’d go about that, and I…

This is a guest post from David Spinks. David is the Community Manager for Scribnia.  With a passion for the power of social web communities, he has utilized his knowledge of community building to establish a professional career in the social media field. He authors a blog at www.davidspinks.com and contributes to the Scribnia Blog. Watching Scribnia develop into a strong and loyal community has been very exciting. We’ve enjoyed the loyal activity of some very enthusiastic alpha users who…

A little while back, I shared some tools with you that I thought helped enhance the community spirit for bloggers.  One of those tools was Scribnia, which I described as your “personal feed recommendation”. Having sat down with it a little more since then, it’s clear that it’s a lot more than that. At its simplest, Scribnia allows members to find blogs and authors and rate them. So far, so what? After all, BlogCatalog offers the same feature with their…