Home About Me Charities 12for12k Kiva Work With Me About This Blog Disclosure Comment Policy Headway Archives Contact Me Great Blogs Why I’m Loving the Livefyre Comments System September 15, 2010 67 voices share yours! Share 1 save Regular readers of this blog will have noticed the introduction of the Livefyre comment system. While I’ve written in the past about my reasons to go back to the WordPress comments system , I saw Livefyre in use on a couple of blogs I enjoy and was intrigued enough to check the system out. Where are the comments stored? MORE >>

'It seems like just yesterday that Robert Scoble invited me to go with him to visit Disqus Headquarters with their founders Daniel Ha and Jason Yan out at their new offices in San Francisco. They had recently launched their new commenting platform for blogs the year before, and wanted some exposure from the Scobleizer himself (see the interview in 2008 here and here , where I''m in the background - filmed on Qik - remember that?). Just today, Disqus announced 1 billion monthly unique visitors -- yes, that''s as big as Youtube! MORE >>

If you’re a regular reader of the blog, you’ll notice that I’ve switched the Livefyre commenting system back on, after using the vanilla WordPress option for the last few months. was one of the early beta users of the system, and loved the way it took blog commenting and turned it into a real-time chat (as this experiment and the subsequent results show). This is what the CommentLuv plug-in offers – the option for anyone leaving a comment to have their last post visible as a link back to their blog. Insights blog comments livefyreNot any more. MORE >>

My favorite blogs also feature one more magic ingredient: a loyal fellowship of readers that love to comment. There are other added benefits of blog commenting including better search engine optimization, and building your reputation as a thought leader in your industry. Here are 5 painless ways to get maximum blog comment love: 1.) This method isn’t for the faint of heart, and you definitely shouldn’t mind getting opinionated comments. Personally reply to as many comments as possible. and his blog gets a ton of comments. We get that. Right. MORE >>

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Are Blog Comments Dead? Written on July 30, 2010 by Justin Levy in blog , community , facebook , interactions , social media , twitter 23 Comments - Leave a comment! As engagement and sharing on Twitter, Facebook and other social tools continues to increase, many bloggers are noticing a sharp decrease in comments on their blogs.  A comment makes us feel good and/or helps to extend the post itself.  Sometimes the comments are even better than the post.  MORE >>