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In The Longest Day Of The Year…

In the longest day of the year, hidden away in your personal oasis, you can get Google send 16350 visitors to your blog only by blogging about the first day of summer, or you can close your eyes and imagine how ICANN is going to open up the internet to those who will show full [...]

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Placing Readers First – Daniel Ha from Disqus

Niclas Darville writes in:

I recall you handing out awards for bloggers who made a heroic effort out of helping their readers and being good sports overall.

In that regard, I’d like to recommend the Disqus team and Daniel Ha in particular, who makes an insane effort out of answering and helping everyone on the site.

They/he may not be a blogger as such, as their real blog is a development blog for a comments system; they do, however have a support forum of sorts where Daniel Ha constantly rushes to answer and solve questions posed by the readers.

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Lorelle (Queen of WordPress) on WordPress Weekly Tonight!

Ok, I Lied… (UPDATE) Lorelle was ill and Jeffro had weather issues in Ohio. The show is re-scheduled for next week (April 18th). If you have some time tonight, Lorelle will be on WordPress Weekly LIVE tonight at 9pm EST. You can call in and ask Lorelle questions LIVE! Yes, in real time! Our pal [...]

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Placing Readers First – David Airey

David Airey is a perfect example of a high-profile blogger and designer who goes above and beyond in the concept of reader appreciation. He responds to almost every comment, and loves the concept of reader feedback.

David is an example of ultimate blogger transparency and is highly approachable. And on top of it all, David is not in the least bit shy to show some love to his readers.

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Readers: Start Your Group Writing Projects

I wanted to bring your attention to the launch of a brand new site called Group Writing Projects. Now there is one place where readers and bloggers can go to see what kind of group writing projects are available. I find a service such as this invaluable. Here’s an excerpt from the press release: The [...]

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Brief Case Study: Inspiration Bit’s Vivien appreciating readers through recognition, communication and linking

Today I would like to talk about the appreciation efforts of Vivien from Inspiration Bit. I would like to point out 3 different things about Vivien’s appreciation efforts. Who is Vivien and what is Inspiration Bit?

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Thank a Blogger

Darren of ProBlogger has a nice series going on improving a blog. One of his recent posts caught my attention about e-mailing an old-timer reader. In fact, Bes wrote about this back in March (of ’07) when he said to pay attention to current and older readers. I’d like to do a little spin-off on [...]

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