Comment Challenge- Day 3- Comment Tracking Service
Day 3: Sign up for a Comment Tracking Service
Leaving a single comment on a blog and then moving on isn’t necessarily the best way to engage in a conversation or use blog commenting for learning. It’s more of a one-way, once-and-done approach that doesn’t take full advantage of what commenting can do for you. To really engage in conversations through blog commenting, you need to develop some effective strategies for managing the comments you make on other blogs. A comment tracking service is a great solution.
While there are several you can choose from, one of the best tools to use is coComment . Sue Waters has written an excellent post with instructions and pictures on how to sign up and manage your comments using coComment. Once your account has been set up, you will then be able to follow your commenting activities through your RSS feed, making it much simpler for you to keep track of all your comments.
Your task for the day is to sign up for coComment or another comment tracking service. Be sure to add your comment feeds to your reader. And if you blog about your experience, add the "comment08" tag to your post.
I have had an account with CoComment for over a year, but quit using it, since I barely commented on other blogs. The times I did comment, I usually use a "Subscribe via e-mail" button.
For the Comment Challenge, I re-vistied CoComment and installed the browser extension , both on my desktop PC and Macbook.
I also installed the coComment site widget on the left sidebar of my blog.
One thing that is bothering me though is the fact, that CoComment is picking up erroneously an old blog post title and using it as the name of my blog. It is somehow confusing the name with that blog post title, I wrote over a month ago. I even went to the trouble of "unpublishing" that post, but CoComment is still pulling it from somewhere. I don’t know if it as error on my end, on CoComment’s end or a WordPress 2.5 issue. I looked and looked on CoComment in my account settings to change that title, but did not find that option. I wish someone could solve this mystery though for me.
So, if you are using CoComment and are seeing the title "Global Awareness-Global Collaboration VoiceThread", please replace it in your head with "on Langwitches".
Flickr/langwitches
Linkedin/langwitches
Twitter/langwitches
YouTube/langwitches
Del.icio.us/langwitches
Blog/Langwitches
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:39 pm
I’m having the exact same issue with the coComment widget on my blog. It’s Wordpress as well. CoComment is picking up Nexus >> Blog Archive (OK) >> I’m going to see the Space Shuttle Launch… for every comment. OK, so maybe I’m spaced out sometimes
but I wrote that post last August. I can’t find anywhere in my settings to rectify the situation, so just think of me as the space geek commenting on your page.
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:52 pm
@Diane
I am so glad you left a comment to let me know that I am not the only one. At least now we can eliminate that it is user error. Must be something with coComment and the version of WordPress. Comments that I tracked with CoCommment a year ago, seem to show up with the correct blog name.
May 3rd, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Hmm
I will have to check my CoComment after I post this, right? That is strange. It must be some residual webbing that you left behind in another life, perhaps?
Thanks for all of the screenshots, which is helpful.
Kevin
May 3rd, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Is this version of CoComment in beta? Just wondering. I’ve picked up a couple of buggy things too. It’s not the most intuitively designed of interfaces … just a bit ‘busy.’ I don’t care for the ads either. End of minor whinge!
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:40 pm
coComment is doing some strange things with my blog as well. Most notably, if I leave a comment on my blog, it tracks the conversation, but calls each blog post “Subscribe via RSS!” which is the heading of the first widget in the sidebar. I don’t get it, but it’s one of the situations where you really just want something to work and it doesn’t.
I’ve also started using co.mments and it seems to be picking up new comments much more quickly and consistently. But it doesn’t have the slick Firefox extension, so it’s a mixed blessing.
May 4th, 2008 at 5:05 am
Regarding your blog title in coComment: for security reasons, we do not update the blog title and keep the original one. However, if you claim your blog in coComment (http://www.cocomment.com/technorati/setup), you will then be able to update your blog title (http://www.cocomment.com/claim/).
If you do not want to do this, I can update it.
May 4th, 2008 at 8:09 am
@Christophe,
Thank you for responding. I have followed your advice and claimed the blog in technorati. I now have two blogs claimed:The Langwitches blog and the langwitches’ conversation on cocomment.
I then responded to a comment on Langwitches, but it is still showing the “Global Awareness” name on My Conversations for that new comment left. I will give it some time to see if there is some time lag until it is updated on technorati or on CoComment. I will post an update at the end of the day.
Thank you for trying to help resolve this issue.
May 4th, 2008 at 9:22 am
On http://www.cocomment.com/claim/, click on the blog title: you can then change it.
May 4th, 2008 at 9:47 am
@Christophe
I see where you can change the title of the blog on the URL you mention. I only see one blog claimed with the name “LANGWITCHES” (see screenshot , while on Technorati I have two blogs claimed “Langwitches” and “CoComments- Langwitches’ conversation”.
See screenshot
I have also tried to synchronize and it still does not show up. Sorry to be so incompetent to be able to solve this on my own.
May 4th, 2008 at 10:50 am
It is normal you do not see the second one in coComment.
The one you see is your blog. If you rename it, it should be reflected on all conversation in coComment on that blog.
May 6th, 2008 at 8:29 am
@christophe
THANK YOU for fixing this issue manually. All of the comments left on this blog are now tracked with “Langwitches”, the way I want it. Thank you.
@everyone else It looks like that I had two different URLs one being http://www.langwitches.org/blog and the other one being just langwitches.org/blog . While coComment recognizes them as two seperate ones, technorati does not.