Connected Needs Your Help!
Friends, (what else would i call the thousand or so people who each day spend so much of their time reading my ramblings and sharing their thoughts and insights) I need your help fine-tuning www.connectedinternet.co.uk! The stats can only tell me which are the most popular pages, or what is the most linked post, or how many people visited. I really don’t know what you like, or dislike. What works, or what doesn’t work.
Since y’all are the ultimate judges and thus the consumers of what I write, it is time for me to step back and ask for your opinion on a few things, which could help improve the site, and your experience. How do you navigate around the site? What time of day do you visit? Where do you live? What would you like to see more of? What do you like/don’t like? Do you use my feed?
I’m looking for any comments which will help me put together site for my readers - You!
You can leave your comments here, so I can find them in one place.
Thanks!
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Comment by James MacAonghus on 22 June 2005:
IMHO….
). But it would be great to see your insights as someone who works in the industry. Scoble talked recently about the best blogs being linkblogs. Various people reacted, some in favour and some against, I guess you need to decide whether you are a link blog (in which case you need to be comprehensive) or a commentary blog. My blog is probably a commentary blog - I can’t assure my readers that all the top stories will appear on my blog, so I cant expect them to use me for that. This would also help me link to you. Often I don’t really want to link because I would just link to a link to another story. You do write a sentence or two but you know….
I think you have a pretty good blog. I use the feed mainly.
The first thing I would suggest is stop requiring membership. I for one, prefer not to contribute to a site that does that. If the site does it to find out who I am, well I would prefer they found that out by encouraging me to contribute. If they do it to avoid spam, I resent the fact that they shift the workload to me. Battelle did it, and even he had to stop.
What would also be good is some more commentary. There are a lot of links (which I appreciate, especially the ones to me
I presume you already ping sites like pingomatic, and the search engines whenever you write something?
I like the “most popular articles” feature.
I would like to see a blogroll. Oh, I just checked your technorati ranking and most of the links come from Aqute!
Stuff that I dont think adds much value to me - the polls (good idea, insufficient numbers), the categories (probably because I read everything as you write it).
Keep it up!
Comment by Errol on 23 June 2005:
I for one would rather stick needles in my eyes than have anonymous comments in my blog. I agree that it is encumbent on the blogger to come up with the content that generates an interest in commenting…but if you want to comment, getting logged in seems like a small and quick price to pay for voicing something. Just my two cents and it has nothing to do with Blogware…
In any case, back to your blog…
I like your blog. I like a cleaner Connected than a busy Connected. I go to your blog for two reasons - 1) seeing what might be new in the industry (Connected is a source among many others) and 2) reading what you think about what is going on in the industry, gadgets, etc because these are interests I share. I particularly enjoy reading Connected when you do 2).
From a Blogware perspective, I have found it insightful to read how you set out to build an audience but the most compelling reads have been pieces in which you have given your view of things.
I know, a pretty generic comment but it is all I have for you at the moment:).