Quite a few folks talking and writing about whether "blogging" is still relevant or not and where has commenting gone? on Scripting News: A Proposal - A New Kind of Blog Comment System. on Twist Image: The End of Conversation in Social Media. on Jaffee Juice: The Conversation Doesn't Suck: You Do. on Connection Agent: The Rebirth of Conversation. on Brazen Careerist: Is Blogging Still Relevant? First, I'll say "blogging" is still the foundation of your content and a deep part of your conversation - the trunk of your social media tree. MORE >>

  For the last few years, I've been able to take part in two important projects: The collaborative storytelling of Age of Conversation and the cooperative Blog Action Day.  Both projects combine efforts of community conversation in hopes to affect great change.  In particular, The Age of Conversation 3: It's Time to Get Busy , is putting its proceeds to charity:water this edition. Blog Action Day 2010: Water is calling on bloggers to focus on the topic of water today. Photo on Flickr by Dylan Parker.  . Blog Action Day - What Are You Thirsty For? MORE >>

Gauravonomics Blog For Marketers, Entrepreneurs and Activists How To Organize and Energize Your Evangelists Blog Speaking Writing Bio Media Subscribe Slideshare Twitter LinkedIn Facebook IdeaSliver Labs Tumblr « How to Design Social Games That Are Easy to Learn (Accessible) But Difficult to Master (Challenging)? Simple Framework to Measure the Effectiveness of Social Media Programs » 18 Social Media Use Cases: Conversation, Campaign and Community Welcome to the Gauravonomics Blog for Marketers, Entrepreneurs and Activists ! Support: Suggestion campaign. MORE >>

Between Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and all their various incarnations there’s a growing number of social media outlets to utilize for bloggers as well as professional and amateur journalists alike. Readers can reply to tweets you’ve embedded from directly within your story, which keeps the conversation going. Unlike some sites where the original poster gets lost through re-blog after re-blog (I’m looking at you WeHeartIt and Tumblr) Storify keeps the metadata of whatever you’ve chosen to embed into your story so attribution never gets lost. MORE >>

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali 12 Ways To Make Your WordPress Blog Cleaner And Cuter January 18th, 2011 Tweet Since you liked last week’s post on 5 ways to spice up your WordPress blog , I thought I’d share a few more plugins I’ve been playing with, and stuff I’ve been doing. Image: tamra hays via Flickr, CC 2.0 What this does is let you select a certain number of blogs from your blogroll, and only that number of blogs will be displayed. MORE >>