Building a Community Around your Blog
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The document discusses the importance of building a community around a blog to enhance reader loyalty and engagement. It highlights the limitations of traditional comment sections and suggests using a plugin to integrate a forum for more interactive discussions. The steps provided include downloading a specific plugin to embed a forum and activate user engagement tools on WordPress.
Building a Community Around your Blog
- 1. Building a Community Around your Blog @digibomb
- 2. If readers h ave a personal attachm ent to you and other reade rs of your blog they’ll be more likely to return agai n and again ...
- 3. The pro blem with blogs
- 4. 1 Community is only in the comments, and that is ver y limited!
- 5. 1 Community is only in the comments, and that is ver y limited! Reade rs are forced to discuss the topic at hand. No new discussions. No interaction. 2
- 7. Anybody?
- 8. Stop speaking and listen! Let the comments be your content.
- 9. Interac tivity engages readers a nd creates a positive impression
- 10. Interac tivity engages readers a nd creates a positive impression A sense of community creates loyal readers
- 11. Interac tivity engages readers a nd creates a Readers who like you positive impression will help you out in various ways A sense of community creates loyal readers
- 12. Interac tivity engages readers a nd creates a Readers who like you positive impression will help you out in various ways A sense of community creates loyal readers Even if your community is small, it p rovides you with an o ppor tunity to get to kno w your readers
- 13. Where do I start?
- 14. Get the plugin!
- 15. Get the plugin! So easy a Caveman can do it.
- 16. Dow nload the plugin from WordPress.org
- 17. What’s inclu ded in the suite <embed> Vanilla plugin – Allows you to embed your Vanilla forum into WordPress with a single line of code. Discussions widget – Displays recent discussions. Activity widget - Displays recent activity. Users widget – Displays recently active user profile photos.
- 18. ... then download Vanilla
- 19. Download for FREE Signup for FREE at VanillaForums.org at VanillaForums.com or
- 20. The sweetest forum on the web!
- 21. ok, but how does it work?
- 22. 1 Activate the WordPress plugin
- 23. 2 Tell WordPress where your Vanilla Forum is located
- 24. 3 Set the <embed> options in your WordPress Dashboard
- 25. 4 Set the <embed> options in your Vanilla Forum Dashboard
- 26. We get ... Embedded Vanilla Forum Stand alone Vanilla Forum
- 27. 5 Enable the Vanilla Forums WordPress Widgets
- 28. We get ... Forum data on ever y page of our blog!
- 29. Some examples
- 31. I’m a Winner!