WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

First of all I would like to thank everyone who joined my community and apologize for delay in keeping my promise. Even though I have decided not to pay attention to the Contest I still would like to personally thank everyone who joined my community and it is even more valuable to me because I know you didn’t do it for the wrong reasons…

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A few days ago MyBlogLog has announced a contest with an offer of the prize. Rules were simple - get most community members during a specific time period and get some rewards. Honestly I didn’t even pay much attention to exact rewards offered as I was viewing this contest as a simple means of increasing visibility of my own community.

I’m hoping to gain people who are actually interested to read my blog and perhaps participate in discussions here. Well, apparently some bloggers have taken this Contest very seriously and what I’m seeing now is that communities directly offering rewards for joining community are moving fast to the top and they do it legally!

To me this is equal to invitation: “Game MyBlogLog Contests And Be Rewarded!”

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WordPress Web 20 “How-To” Spot-Er MyBlogLog community have been growing steadily since its inception and I’m very great full to each and every blogger who joined it! In fact I do everything in my power to reciprocate because what I have found so far is that every member of my community has a great blog, most of which I would have never found via other means.

In this post I want to highlight my current community members and invite you to be come part of my community. Yes, I have joined the MyBlogLog Problogger Contest and want to see if I can interest enough people to join my community and help me win it. I don’t intend to go begging anyone to join my WordPress Web 20 “How-To” Spot-er Community as I don’t want to game the system but will reward all my members by creating another highlight post at the end of contest.

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One of the greatest things that social networks like MyBlogLog and Blogcatalog do is presenting a form of social proof to your visitors. We are social and seeing that someone else, perhaps even someone we know and easily recognize, provides us with a “feel good” about our action feelings.
But is it really worth it?

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[tag-tec]WordPress[/tag-tec] plugins are what make the platform such a great tool as they not only extend the functionality but also greatly enhance reader’s experience. And at same time they present a problem, as sometimes you have to choose one functionality over another.

But lucky us – most of them come as open source or with a license that allows you to modify the code and fit it into your vision. Such was the case with a “Brian’s Threaded Comments” [tag-tec]plugin[/tag-tec] I integrated couple nights ago. It provides a great option to thread your comments and also reply directly to each individual comment, keeping a conversation more personal. I have seen it used on many blogs but default install was lucking integration of MyAvatars plugin, which adds a “face” to each comment by pulling information from MyBlogLog profile.

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[tag-tec]MyBlogLog[/tag-tec] received its own reiteration of [tag-tec]Gravy Train[/tag-tec] that gained popularity with [tag-tec]technorati[/tag-tec] and swept through bloggin community. I was a bit surprised to discover myself on receiving end of the new train and can only express my thanks to “The Real Estate Schmoozer” for inclusion. You can see the train and possibly participate in it here.

And while looking through the site I have followed on of the links to another site and then another until I run into something cool! A new tool that displays all information related to your site rank – free!

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