Comments on: 3 tips to make your site more social http://www.beawesomeonline.com/3-tips-to-make-your-site-more-social Website advice for delightful weirdos Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Catherine Caine http://www.beawesomeonline.com/3-tips-to-make-your-site-more-social/comment-page-1#comment-465 Catherine Caine Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:14:54 +0000 http://www.beawesomeonline.com/?p=675#comment-465 Good luck with that! Be careful about making every comment update in Twitter, because it can get REALLY annoying. Still think it's a good system, though. Good luck with that! Be careful about making every comment update in Twitter, because it can get REALLY annoying. Still think it's a good system, though.

]]> By: Jon Buscall http://www.beawesomeonline.com/3-tips-to-make-your-site-more-social/comment-page-1#comment-462 Jon Buscall Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:27:04 +0000 http://www.beawesomeonline.com/?p=675#comment-462 Thanks for sharing your thoughts about Disqus. I think I'm going to have to give it a go because of the Facebook and Twitter tie in. Lets hope it plays nicely. Thanks for sharing your thoughts about Disqus. I think I'm going to have to give it a go because of the Facebook and Twitter tie in. Lets hope it plays nicely.

]]> By: Catherine Caine http://www.beawesomeonline.com/3-tips-to-make-your-site-more-social/comment-page-1#comment-461 Catherine Caine Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:19:48 +0000 http://www.beawesomeonline.com/?p=675#comment-461 I think it does. In all of our posts we ask a question and then say "Tell us in the comments". It's rare we don't get at least 5 comments from people.<br><br>Mind you, we don't HAVE a Facebook fan page (because I have no time for maintaining one and it's not as useful or enjoyable to me as Twitter), so there's not any other obvious options for people to connect with us. People tend to go to where they think the party is.<br><br>I think Disqus is worth implementing either way. The threading and notification systems are really useful for helping me engage with the readers, and them engage with each other. I think it does. In all of our posts we ask a question and then say “Tell us in the comments”. It's rare we don't get at least 5 comments from people.

Mind you, we don't HAVE a Facebook fan page (because I have no time for maintaining one and it's not as useful or enjoyable to me as Twitter), so there's not any other obvious options for people to connect with us. People tend to go to where they think the party is.

I think Disqus is worth implementing either way. The threading and notification systems are really useful for helping me engage with the readers, and them engage with each other.

]]> By: Jon Buscall http://www.beawesomeonline.com/3-tips-to-make-your-site-more-social/comment-page-1#comment-460 Jon Buscall Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:01:39 +0000 http://www.beawesomeonline.com/?p=675#comment-460 Do you find that a comment service like Disqus makes your site more social ? <br><br>I've noticed on client sites that a lot of users are going back to the Facebook Fan Pages to comment instead of the blog. It's almost like they can't be bothered to sign in to comment whereas on Facebook they are already signed in. <br><br>I'm looking at switching their comment system to Disqus because of this but I'm not 100% convinced yet by it's social benefits. Do you find that a comment service like Disqus makes your site more social ?

I've noticed on client sites that a lot of users are going back to the Facebook Fan Pages to comment instead of the blog. It's almost like they can't be bothered to sign in to comment whereas on Facebook they are already signed in.

I'm looking at switching their comment system to Disqus because of this but I'm not 100% convinced yet by it's social benefits.

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