Ah ha! (Don’t you just love it when that happens?). I was just about to type: “People can leave more general comments or questions on my contact page.” Guess what? I don’t have a contact page. I think I need to remedy that.

This bodes well for the rest of the day. I’ve learned something already and haven’t even finished my first pot of tea

I know there are forums (or discussion boards) now as part of Edublogs, but I have not yet tried it out. It might be worth pursuing. But it makes me wonder then, about the value of the comments being directed connected to a particular post. I think the focus, even if it veers slightly from time to time, is valuable, as long as I can follow the threads.

Kevin

You’ve raised a good point! I think there probably is a need for a general comments area on a blog. The first thing I look for when I click through to a new blog is the “About” page to get a feel for the blogger’s perspective. I’ve been noticing comments on quite a number of those pages. I’d thought that a bit strange but it makes sense if you consider readers just might want to comment unrelated to a post. I suppose it would b easy enough to add a page just for such comments. Something to think about.

I loved the Voki intro and thought wow that is really fun. Started wondering where it would be appropriate, if anywhere, in my blogs. Then I saw your post to self, and thought I wonder if there is a service that would send that to me every month or so. I got a sense there was a lot of great information about engagement through technology.

So I found lots of fun engaging things in my overview….yet it is only because of the comment challenge that I am taking time and finding a place to tell you. Normally I wouldn’t write a comment that wasn’t directly relevant to exactly what a post was about. And I never think about commenting on older posts. I guess I assume the blogger has moved on. Yet, I know how fun it is to get comments anytime.

Hmm, thinking again. I guess I don’t have a place or offer any encouragement to have these more general conversations. I wonder how bloggers could do that?

Now I need your help. I’ve spent the last few minutes over at the Comment Challenge video page and I can’t seem to embed the code. I chose the embed code from Animoto, and the Insert code/Javascript on the wiki. All I seem to get is the text version of the code snippet. Can any of you help?