Question: Respond on Facebook

Facebook page is pretty much silent too, so far I have only got two responds. More to be added, shall I receive some over the next few days.

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Question: Respond on Twitter

Twitter is meant to be instant. After hours and hours there is not a single reply. NOTHING. I mean, even my foodie posts get more response, hello??

#shocked @passiveness

UPDATE: One respond the next morning:

UPDATE: After getting fed up with the silence I decided to give it another try this afternoon which proved to be more successful, and I received a few valuable comments:

Looks like I already see a pattern here... :-)

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Question: Respond on Formspring

Some replies have already started coming back to me, however they are far from what I was expecting.

First of all I intended it to be a quantitative approach, assuming people would name one or two things about what makes a great blog for them, but instead I have received some big pieces of writing to analyze. It's not a bad thing as I can still pick up the bits I want for my statistics, but it just makes me think I should be more careful next time and specify what I am after in more detail.

Secondly, I was expecting far more answers coming in, but perhaps that's due to the late hours I popped the question- as Russia is at least 4 hours ahead and most of my followers form there would be sleeping. I'm hoping to find more answers tomorrow morning and in the days to come. Either way, I will be updating this post with new entries throughout the duration of my module.

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Question: What Makes a Great Blog?

As I planned, I have now asked my question on the following social networks in both English and Russian:

Formspring

Facebook

Twitter

Knowing how passive people usually are I am not hoping for a massive respond, but I will be happy with any number of people getting back to me as every feedback is important! Let's see what they have to say...

Videos: Andy Torres "The Key to Successful Blogging"

Interview: A Blogger by Profession - Questions

 

To nail my "interview" bit, I have come up with 4 questions that I emailed to Karen from WhereDidUGetThat, as she is one of the few bloggers who work full-time on their blogs (she runs 3 of them actually!) that I know. Although we speak online from times to times as it can be seen from the posts below, we don't know each other in person and our connection is based on blogging purely, that is why I would still consider Karen as a weak-tie in my network. Will be looking twice as forward to receive her answers, being a blogger myself!

Anyway, these are the questions I came up with:

• From reading your blog, I know you have recently quited your job for working as a full-time blogger. How has that changed your life?
• What are the benefits of your current job and are there any downsides to it?
• What career perspectives do you see?
• Would you say it pays off, both morally and financially, so far?

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