Words of wisdom for any J-blogger

On September 11, 2008 in Blog Improvements, Community building, DailyJ Mission, Helping Japan Bloggers

A few days ago I was feeling tired, and I posted about it.

Nick, my J-web champion, from Longcountdown replied and gave me some much needed encouragement and advice. It is advice that every Japan-blogger should probably take to heart.

Nick said: …you can “meet the needs” of Japan bloggers (or anybody for that matter) by making them feel important, and being sincere about it in the process. Here are a few things that bloggers like:

- receiving positive comments on their blog posts
- being linked to or mentioned in a positive context on another blog.
- having a post dugg, stumbled, soc’ed or otherwise shared without needing to ask for it.
- getting new subscribers
- getting added to someone’s blogroll
- being followed on Twitter

Etc. All these things make bloggers feel good about themselves. Now, this is just a suggestion, but it’s really very similar to what the Daily J has always been about - community building:

Everyday, make an effort to do one of the things listed above, and on the Daily J, write a quick paragraph about why you did it. So, if you stumbled someone’s article, tell your Daily J readers about it. The person who got the Daily J “Stumble, Backlink, and Recommendation” package will be buzzing all day… because you made them feel important.

Do that with five different J-bloggers per week and you’ll have indirectly affected each of those bloggers in a positive way. As you do this week after week, your actions will have given the whole community a boost, and if you’re lucky, your generosity will rub off on others who may feel energized to be more active in the community themselves.

And you can do all this in just five minutes a day!

I have said similar things in the past but I am guilt as charged of not practising what I preach.

It is time to change that. Thanks Nick.

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