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31 Day Comment Challenge: Days 26 - 31 | Information Wants To Be Free
When you are commenting on someone else’s post, consider the following elements that make for a good blog comment:
* It’s relevant to the original post
* It is thoughtful and insightful
* Your unique voice comes through in the comment
* It is civil in tone — no jabs at other people
* It is short enough to be readable, but long enough to be meaningful
There are many, many, many flavors of good comments and most good comments will not meet all of this criteria. Some may be encouraging while others may challenge everything you wrote in your post. Some may be personally revealing while others may be very academic. Some may be a sentence long, others may be a blog post in themselves. Some may be insightful, some may be supportive, and others may just be funny. The most important thing to keep in mind when you’re writing a comment on someone else’s post is to be true to yourself.
Blogs at the University of Auckland Library
Regularly updated - has a feed that aggregates the individual blogs (which also have their own categories, see eg science).\n"Recent comments" feature (in individual blogs) encourages commenting from community. Comments pre-moderated.
Cool comments from outside readers - K-State Libraries Wiki
Links to comments received from external (non-student/staff) readers of their blogs.
ASU Libraries News »
Frequently updated. Based on Wordpress - multiple categories. Nice design!
Comments disabled.
Blogs and RSS Feeds: Drexel University Libraries
Lots of blogs at Drexel for various purposes.
Suggestion Box updated daily or more.
Not clear on distinction between Engineering Library Instruction and Englibrary.
SuggestionBox: "If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting."
blog@your library - Curtin
Fairly frequently updated. *Robust discussion in comments.*
Uses Captchas.
Library Hacks - Duke
Regularly updated. Creative Commons licensed. Multiple categories, "recent comments" in sidebar.
Open commenting - judging by 1 spam in "Save time! Learn EndNote!" :-) Uses WordPress plugin Spam Karma 2
Wendt Library Blog, UWisconsin College of Engineering
"Comment moderation has been enabled. All comments must be approved by the blog author."
The L Files - Bond Uni (Australia)
Irregularly updated. CreativeCommons licensed. Based on Blogger.com, multiple categories.
"Comment moderation has been enabled. All comments must be approved by the blog author."
BANR - Colorado State
Infrequently updated. Based on Moveable type; multiple categories. Rather dry.
"If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting."
LibraryTechNZ: Do we need comment moderation?
"we're pre-moderating comments on Create Readers (checking the comments when they are submitted, and publishing them ourselves) and post-moderating comments on this blog (comments are published as soon as they're submitted, and we check them afterwards)."
"So far, we've rejected just one comment - an author who submitted a comment to Create Readers touting his books. One of the things we agreed before launching the blog was that it shouldn't function as an advertising site."
"we've not had any spamming."
"This blog is run by staff at the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa. The views expressed on this blog are those of the individual authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the National Library of New Zealand. The National Library accepts no liability for the content of this blog... but they wished us well."
Massey University Library - News for the College of Business
Infrequently updated. Based at Blogger.com
"Comment moderation has been enabled. All comments must be approved by the blog author."
Public Blog | The Library | Victoria University of Wellington
Started Feb 2008 - regular updates. A bit dry.
Posts can have multiple categories
Some posts have comments off; others have comments enabled but require login.
Unitec Library Updates
Irregularly updated. Based at Blogger.com
"Comment moderation has been enabled. All comments must be approved by the blog author."
UCOL Library Blog
Irregularly updated. Based at Blogger.com. Nice use of images, informal voice.
"Comment moderation has been enabled. All comments must be approved by the blog author."
Tame The Web » Blog Archive » Karen Schneider at SOLINET: Building Marketing, Buy-In & Strategy for Your Social Software Presence
"Allow comments, moderate them and do it quickly."
"moderate for profanity, spam, and ad hominem attacks"
"Let everything else through and thank them for commenting."
Blog: Harvard Kennedy School Library
Inconclusive
Rowland Institute Library Blog
Unmoderated comments - would be improved if they were monitored though!
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