Hat tip to Beth to sending us a link to Chris Brogan’s great post on 25 Ways to Build Your Community. Twenty-five is a lot of ways, but Chris is clearly passionate about the matter and the lessons in this list are ones we see paying off for people everyday here in BlogBurstLand.
While not everybody has the fortitude to read at least 100 blogs regularly (suggestion #1), one’s reach should exceed one’s grasp, and many of the suggestions here are very attainable.
I encourage you to read the original post, but if I had to boil down the principles espoused here I’d say they are:
- care about what you write, take care to write well, don’t be snotty, and top it off with a good headline
- link to other people and posts and promote other people’s work; trust the great karma boomerang
- use the tools at your disposal: comments, Twitter, live meetups, whatever you got
- think ahead, use strategy
Considering the fact that Chris has pages of comments on his post already, it seems to be working for him.
Tim, thanks for sharing the link. Interesting insights, and there’s some things that I hadn’t considered before. Agreed, suggestion #1 isn’t practical for many people (myself included).
Tim,
Thank you! Chris is a valuable source of information. I follow him on twitter for just this type of article–I missed this one. Thanks for 2nd line of defense!
dean