Comments on: 2008 Comment Challenge – Tracking Your Comments

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:41:24 +0000

Sorry Diane I have no answers – it’s been mocking me but the good news is your posts are now being found

By: Diane

Diane — Sun, 04 May 2008 12:35:27 +0000

Sue, I noticed the technorati problem at the beginning of the Challenge but I thought it was an idiosyncrasy of my blog. I never check technorati but I logged into my account to remind myself of the features. That’s when I noticed that nothing I had posted in the last month was showing up. I pinged my blog to no avail. I use the technorati tag generator plugin for Firefox which lists “tags: whatever”. This makes no sense but as soon as I went back to my previous posts and changed the “tags” to “Technorati tags” my posts appeared on both the Horizon Project and the Comment Challenge wikis where they belonged.

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Sun, 04 May 2008 10:26:01 +0000

Definitely doing a great job with tagging at cocomment but we having major issues with technorati and it could be that the solution to this will be to use the comment tagging to find all the posts.

For some reason technorati isn’t finding all posts tagged or including comment08 which makes it hard to make sure everyone knows about these posts. Haven’t worked out the issue that is causing it with technorati, and Google Blog search is worse. So your comment has reminded me to see if the comment08 tag is a better option.

By: Diane

Diane — Sun, 04 May 2008 03:08:38 +0000

Hi Barb – nice to “meet” you! I visited your blog and love your byline – Dancing on a Shifting Carpet! Isn’t that the truth? The only thing that keeps us from falling off is our ability to learn new steps. Glad to be learning with you!

By: Diane

Diane — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:23:28 +0000

Hi Sue – nice to talk to you “in person”! After reading your comment I searched coComment for the comment08 tag and it looks like we’re doing a pretty good job of using this tag. We have three variations:

Comment08 with9 comments
cocomment08 with 3 comments
comment08 with 214 comments

Something to consider for the future. Any time you can eliminate a step it’s a good thing

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:07:20 +0000

Hi Diane – I think we are all learning so much from this Challenge and I love seeing the increased connections/community building happening between participants. I’m thinking the tagged comment feature is excellent is in some ways better to use then the group conversations because provided everyone tags their comments using comment08 we will find them with no extra steps.

Thanks for linking to my posts

By: Barb

Barb — Sun, 04 May 2008 01:47:59 +0000

Thanks for your explanation. iI will persevere with CoComment and see if I can get it to do what I want it to. I found the “Follow this conversation with email” function quite cumbersome as it often gives you a barrage of emails. Certainly gives me plenty to read. Looking forward to the challenge and lots more reading and writing.

By: Diane

Diane — Sat, 03 May 2008 22:33:25 +0000

Thanks for visiting Kevin! I think the beauty of this challenge is that we are all kind of “gathered together” so that we can share our learning. By adding what we can, we are all making the network stronger. Happy commenting!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 03 May 2008 22:02:45 +0000

I like your clear explanations here. It really puts forth a solid footing for those folks not sure of the vocabulary being bandied about. And that may allow others to enter the conversations.
Thanks
Kevin