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Why Should You Comment On A Blog Post?

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I was reading an article today titled, Behind the Wheels: An all-too-real Cinderella story it had 12 comments. Which got me to wondering: How come useless throw away blog posts and articles have tons and tons of comments and the good stuff gets next to nothing? Do you share it, save it, or comment? Why should you comment?

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How to Navigate Social Media in an Era of Misinformation and Disinformation

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Here’s more of what Chat GPT supplied in italics with my running comments baked in. Educate Yourself : Invest time in improving your digital literacy. Educate Others : Help friends and family become more digitally literate by sharing resources and discussing the importance of critical thinking online. Does it not?

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Protecting Children from Social Media

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Do some of the following questions and comments sound familiar? Comment on YouTube. Comment on any blog anywhere. Upload music and comment on the music. So I mentioned education. Do you know who needs the most education? and another would say “We have to&#. and you know what? Online Chat via AIM.

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What drives participation in a social network?

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If you’re a social media consultant like Jay Baer , or a larger organization like Accenture for instance, one of the constant constants in social media is the amount of education required to get people all on the same page, before anything can really be accomplished. A high number of blog comments= validates the topic.

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17 Tweetchats for Social Media, Marketing and PR folks

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If I have left any out, please drop me a line and include it in the comments section. 12) #SMCEDU Discussions about Social Media / Higher Education. 1) Hashtagsocialmedia -#socialmedia Of course I’m partial to the one I co-founded with Jason Breed Advancing the Business of Social Media every Tues noon EST. . 10) #pr20chat PR 2.0

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The Social Media Pitfall of Assumptive Collaboration

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The first was instead of creating “a website&# we decided to create it in WordPress so that we would have the latitude to “turn on&# commenting for starters. During the development phase we ( the developer and I) decided to make the commenting more robust and so we decided to go down the path of Disqus.

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14 Quick Tactics to Encourage Corporate Social Media Adoption

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3) On-going social media education ! 5) Teach your execs and colleagues how to follow conferences and events and comment via hashtags. Show the benefits of why you need to join in. 2) Demonstrate for corporate executives the increase in visibility from search rankings that result from searchable presence on social media sites.