In a recent podcast episode of Conversations with Mzinga, Liz Strauss offers two recommendations for bloggers who want to generate rich(er) comment-thread discussions:
- Leave your blog posts “unfinished.” Don’t complete every thought, idea, or subject that you write about in a post, lest you leave your readers with nothing of their own to add.
- Ask the right question at the end of the post that moves people to respond. Liz says she can spend up to one-third of her blogging time crafting just the right parting question.
Sounds like good advice to me.
And if two blogging tips just aren’t enough for you today, then try 27 more from Chris Brogan on for size.
Flickr photo of Liz Strauss and Rick Calvert from Wendy Piersall’s Flickr photo stream.
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2 Responses
Daniel
07|Jan|2009 1I’m not sure I agree with your point about leaving blog posts unfinished, but some sort of call to action is always a good thing.
Oh, Liz. Liz is a master blogger. She knows her stuff.
Lavanna Martin
27|Jan|2009 2Hi, Bryan.
I think 2 good blogging tips are all that I can handle, instead of the other option of 27!
I’m into eliminating the non-essential…
Thank you,
Lavanna Martin