31-Day Commenting Challenge to Start in 2 Days
It is amazing to get up in the morning and see and read the wonderful work that Kim and Sue are doing in the Eastern hemisphere while we are sleeping on other side of the globe.
Kim wrote a post How to participate in the Comment Challenge and created a 2008 Comment Challenge Wiki for anyone interested in joining. In the first 19 hours 41 participants signed up!
On the Wiki , Michele has started an Activities page for brainstorming ideas. She has also added her announcement post and her thoughts on how to become a better blog citizen through commenting.
I have been busy at school all day, but in the back of my mind the challenge was never far from my mind. One of the things that I was able to do during school hours, was to talk to two amazing teachers. One had started a blog, but has not found the “push” to continue writing. The other has not started her own blog, but in her words “was hooked” on reading them. I told both of them that this challenge would be a great opportunity to jump in. So Mrs. B. & Mrs. B, I can’t wait to see and hear your new voices added to our thoughts.
Commenting can be like mini-blogging. It is great writing practice. It’s a way to sort through all these ideas that are swirling around in your head from reading others. It can be the prequel to your own first blog post. You don’t have to have your own blog before starting to comment. It could be the tryouts, the dress rehearsal before the race or performance.
I would like to see if there is and what kind of theme, similarities, differences, red thread, spectrum, color, continuum, or variety are to be found in my comments at the end of the 31 days. Will there be anything jumping out at me? Something that I did not realize or see before? What will I learn from the process?
Can’t wait to get started.
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April 29th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Great points about commenting Silvia! You are so right about it being the prequel to a blog post (not just your first either, comments are often the prequel to blog posts for me).
They get you thinking, push you in new directions, help you make connections between ideas, and allow you to build your own understanding.
A good comment is almost like a mini-blog post of it’s own.
Phew! I really should be commenting more! Good thing we’ve got this challenge coming up
April 29th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Silvia, this is great. I hadn’t thought of commenting as being like microblogging but I’m all for microblogging, and of course with coComment it is easy to track conversations. What I love about the microblogging I thought about (like Twitter) is that it is a way of building community and of course that is what commenting does too. I can’t wait for the challenge to begin, either.