Comments on: Building a community

By: Micah

Micah — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:14:21 +0000

Hi everyone, I just started posting, here every day too and waiting for the new leads today. Can’t seem to break from the pc lately.

By: napjomom

napjomom — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:15:08 +0000

Hi all,

As usual, Deb came up with a great idea. Building community is extremely important in a world full of WIIFMs. This virtual writer’s colony has provided me with encouragement, suggestions, friendship and last, but not least, job leads. I’ve come back to the fold after a loooooooong hiatus and am having to learn new writing skills necessary for the virtual world. This is the place to do it. Many thanks to deb and everyone else.

By: Susan Flemming

Susan Flemming — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:30:32 +0000

What a fun way to bring repeat visitors to your site and to help foster a community!

By: Misti

Misti — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:16:29 +0000

Oops–never mind. Now the list is showing up.

It wasn’t at first.

By: Misti

Misti — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:13:37 +0000

Neat idea! The comments here can get as interesting as your blog posts!

As a technical note, the post list is not appearing in Safari.

By: Katharine Swan

Katharine Swan — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:33:08 +0000

Disenroll sounds silly. Unenroll would have been better.

By: Katya

Katya — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:32:21 +0000

I’m not entering this contest, I just want to say what an awesome place this is.

By: Katharine Swan

Katharine Swan — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:31:59 +0000

Robin –

There’s a link at the bottom of the emails that says “To manage your subscriptions or to block all notifications from this site…” Have you tried clicking on that? (I haven’t, because I don’t want to accidentally disenroll myself!)

By: Katrina

Katrina — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:25:17 +0000

Katharine:
Everyone deserves a day off! Go to the beach, sister!

By: Deb

Deb — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:23:58 +0000

You got me.

I would think you could just go back and uncheck your boxes? Robin it might not have took because there were comments in the queue at the same time you checked?

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:21:15 +0000

Okay, didn’t work.

DEB! What do we do here?

By: Katharine Swan

Katharine Swan — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:20:58 +0000

Katrina –

I figure all I have to do is maintain my lead, right?

But, seriously, there’s only so much commenting I can do. I am still struggling to complete my really big, really miserable summer project. When I am done, I will be taking a few days off, and the sooner the better!!!

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:20:50 +0000

Okay, I need to stop having all the comments e-mailed to my inbox because I almost just glossed over a VERY important e-mail trying to get through all the FWJ e-mails. It looks like the only way I can turn them off is to make a new post because it says “uncheck this box” at the bottom but there is no way to uncheck.

This is a test to see if this works.

By: Katrina

Katrina — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:15:16 +0000

Katharine:
I think you’ve got the certificate in the bag! (Unless you decide to take the rest of the month off–hint, hint)

By: Deb

Deb — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:14:17 +0000

Katherine -

I receive email everytime someone comments. I woke up this morning to over 150 emails, 85 of them due to comments!

Enjoy yourselves guys! This contest is intended to promote community spirit.

By: Katharine Swan

Katharine Swan — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:11:21 +0000

Well, your plan is working, Deb — lots and lots of comments! I am signed up for email updates for all of the more recent threads, and when I got up this morning and checked my email, I couldn’t believe how many updates I had in my inbox! I guess a $50 gift certificate sounds just as good to everyone else as it does to me.

By: allycat

allycat — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:54:28 +0000

uh oh Katharine, your age is showing….

everyone else, I’m dying to win this thing…and trying hard…but I am realizing that I am just too ridiculous busy! so good luck to all!

By: Katrina

Katrina — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:43:39 +0000

What an awesome idea! I love this site, and I’m excited about this opportunity!

By: Eun Jung

Eun Jung — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:37:02 +0000

Deb, you knew everyone was going to comment on this. Thanks for giving us the incentive (as if we need it).

By: Erik Hare

Erik Hare — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:02:56 +0000

So let me get this straight ….

You have a contest among writers to see who is the most locquatious?

My hunch is that this will eventually be ruled a suicide.

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:36:49 +0000

Guess I should stop keeping my opinions and agreements to myself, huh? Fun idea, Deb!

By: Deb

Deb — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:08:23 +0000

I’m happy everyone is enjoying the contest. I wanted to do something everyone had a chance at winning. It doesn’t take much to add your two cents so I figured this would work.

By: homemom3

homemom3 — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:44:30 +0000

I’ll be adding this to my “Tuesday Giveaway” list. This one sounds like a lot of fun. Heck I come here every day.

By: sognatrice

sognatrice — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:08:59 +0000

OK, first of all, I can’t believe October is so close!

But second, a word of advice to those interested in following the discussion–leave the box checked on the bottom of the form to be updated when new comments are posted! I’m trying to figure out how to install something like this on my blog, but I think for now I’ll just wait until I switch servers.

Great idea for awarding the top commenter

By: Mariella

Mariella — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:44:35 +0000

Wow. That is absolutely fantastic. Good luck everyone (including myself) and congrats for being on top, Katharine!