May I Have Your Attention Please? Will the Real Blog Readers Please Stand Up?

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May I have your attention please?

May I have your attention please?

Will the real blog readers please stand up?

I repeat, will the real blog readers please stand up?

Seth Godin don’t gotta comment on his posts to sell his blog; well I do, so…. oops, I almost dropped the F Bomb.  Sometimes I forget that I’m not Slim Shady, or even slim for that matter, but I love the raw power and passion that Eminem puts into his music. My goal is to bring that same level enthusiasm in every post I publish, although it’s doubtful that I’ll be controversial enough to be the Marshall Mathers of the blogging world (never say never).  In the meantime, here’s what I do know – I can’t do it alone.  So, will my real blog readers please stand up? And put one of those comments on each post up? And be proud to be outta your mind and outta control and one more time, loud as you can, how does it go (Forgot Again, sorry)

The Silent Majority

The last few posts have garnered between 5000 – 7000 views.  I’m not sure how “good” or “bad” that is, but it’s “cool” that thousands of check out our blog. What’s not as cool is that we only have 15 – 20 folks who  comment on each post.  Since I won the Michigan Math Award in 8^th grade, I’m qualified to state that, on average, less than 1% of the people who’ve visited this page actually left proof that they were here. What, are people literally Stumbling Upon pages and accidentally trip over my posts?  That would be funny to see, but I don’t think that’s it.  Are people accidentally clicking on tweet links thinking it’s a free iPad2?  Uhh, I hope no-one actually clicks those.  My conclusion is that we, like many other sites, have a silent majority of readers.  While we hope you’ve been inspired or cracked a smile or LOL’d, we’ll never know.  We want you to have a voice and we want to learn from you so here’s what we’re going to do…

Judgment Free Zone and What’s in it for You

I fear some folks simply don’t speak their minds because their afraid of ridicule or confrontation.  If that’s you, DON’T BE AFRAID, because I’m mandating this space to be a judgment free zone. We’ll have healthy debates, sure, but I will layeth the smacketh down on any trolls who come at someone with the “that’s stupid” or “you’re ignorant” talk.  So please, by all means, speak your mind. I have thick skin, it’s ok to disagree with me.  My vision is for this to be a college basketball atmosphere like the Cameron Crazies create at Duke or the IZZOne at Michigan State. I guess there might be some accountability on my part, you know, like I might have to write good stuff or teach you something.  So here are the two nuggets of gold buried in today’s wrap up.  First – try this blogging tongue twister, say it 3 times real fast – communities are created when commenters comment on commenters comments (not a subliminal message, I promise).  Secondly, when you’re writing… if you want your audience to smile at something you write, make sure it makes you smile after you write it.  See, it works, you’re smiling! Where else are you going to get this material from?

Now it’s your turn – What do you want to see more posts on?  What do you want to get out of a blog community? Are you still reading this?

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