Throughout the week, I am on the lookout for bloggers to include in my Sunday post of the favorites I've read during the week, and I am constantly checking out bloggers who are new, or at least new to me. And lately I've noticed something.
Many bloggers, mostly newbies, write a post and then disable comments. Then I'll scroll down to older posts and find they've done the same thing on all of them.
Now, I can't think of too many good reasons to disable comments. In fact. the only time I ever do it is when I've reblogged someone else's post and want to encourage readers who find it on my site to go back to the original writer's blog and leave a comment there.
One of the reasons to write a post at all is to encourage dialogue with your blog buddies, and you won't even get many blog buddies if you shut them out by not allowing comments.
Blogging here on Active Rain is not just about writing great (or even mediocre) posts. It's about the interaction with the other bloggers here, and often with readers who are not Active Rain members. They may be clients, family or friends - or perhaps they are people who would like to become clients.
For many of us, especially if we don't work for a national firm, Active Rain is our little RELO network. We keep in mind the people we meet here when we have referrals to other cities and states - we want to send them to people we know.
And if you are afraid to allow comments because you think they might be, well, not all that flattering, most of us are pretty kind almost all the time!
So don't be scared. Write those blogs, read the comments that come in, check out the blogs of the folks who comment on yours and comment on theirs, and before you know it, you'll be in the swing of things!
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