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New Blog Setup: Creating a Community.

by Chris

I enjoy setting up new blogs. In fact I enjoy it perhaps too much (considering I should be spending my time writing!). Actually, the fact that I like setting up blogs so much is on reason why I now offer it as a service (more details to follow).

In setting up this new blog, I wanted to encourage interactions and community from the get-go. With this in mind, I have done the following:

  1. Installed the excellent CommentLuv plugin, so that anyone who already has a blog gets a link back to their latest post automagically.
  2. Installed a Twitter ID plugin, that means if you leave a comment with an email linked to a twitter account it will stick a link to your profile in there. I like twitter, it makes me warm and fuzzy inside. There’s also a ‘Twit this’ plugin. I’ll see how that goes as it adds clutter.
  3. I’ve whacked my links to my travel bloggin community interactions in the side bar.
  4. I’ve stuck some of my favourite travel related blogs in my Blogroll. I’ll probably do a seperate links page in the future, but this will do for now.
  5. From the start I want to encourage interaction and community in my posts. No plugin for that I’ll have to do that myself!

I hope you enjoy my new blog, and welcome to the community!

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4 comments

1 Julie { 02.13.09 at 00:34 }

Looks fantastic– I like the clean design and layout– you’ve got lots going on, but it’s not cluttered. I know you put a lot of work into getting this blog set up–and it shows!

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2 Chris { 02.15.09 at 13:25 }

@Julie - Thanks for your comment - thanks means a lot! Looking forward to making to most of the site to showcase and improve my travel writing. Stay tuned!

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3 Nik { 02.15.09 at 22:09 }

Hi Chris!

I agree very much with your goal of creating a “community” of sorts. Its what I am to do myself, tho without much results quite yet. I’ll be looking to try some of your suggestions, like that CommentLuv plugin, that does sounds sweet!

I’ll be off checking the rest of your site out now! =)

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4 Chris { 02.18.09 at 14:27 }

@nik - Thanks for the comment. Not much on here yet, but plenty more coming - stay tuned!

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