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Comment and Email

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Guess what? I don’t comment back to people on my blog. I email them. Do I have some great blogging philosophical reason? Nope! I do it because with my comment system mixed with WordPress I can just hit reply in my email and it goes to the commenter.

Granted, I don’t reply to every single comment. Sometimes, I simply don’t have the time. I care about each one, because that person took time to do it. But if someone seems to really have resonated with me on something, has a question or a problem to solve, or whatever, I email them back. In fact, I’ve made a lot of my online friendships that way.

So please know, that when you don’t see comments from me on my blog – I’m not unresponsive to my readers. I just do it a little less publicly. I like it to be more personal. Once someone comments, I like to take it to a more personal conversation.

In addition… I WILL comment publicly if I need to. Not to trolls – they simply get deleted. But people who may be heated or have a different opinion may need to be responded to publicly as the situation calls for it. You never know.

There, I feel better now.

a little bit of squee

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In this post, I’m going to be starstruck.  Please be prepared.

I’ve been writing online for 11 years.  Various incarnations.  Lost a lot of them.  Back then, I had free ftp and webspace on aol.  This was before the blogging platform was even thought of.  If you wrote an “online diary” you wrote it in notepad, did all the html from scratch.  You then ftp’d the entry to your server space.  And then you edited and uploaded your previous entry (so the link to “next” was correct), and you edited and uploaded your archives page.  Painstakingly.  There was no such thing as a blogroll.  Although pretty soon the webrings and burbs started coming about.

Flash forward to now.  I’ve never been one of the popular kids in the blogging world.  But I kept it up.  Writing about my life, my diary here.  And here we are.

I have another blog, which is my baby.  I shopped the idea to numerous networks, as I felt the topic was more important to get out to a larger audience then I could support with my readers.  Love you all as much as I do.   It took me about a year to find one that took me up on it.

Stay with me here, I’m jumping around.

So in the blogging world, there are some bloggers who are the creme de la creme when I think of the word, “blogger.”  There is a top five in my head.  One of which is Susan Wagner of Friday Playdate.  You may also know her from BlogHer, Mamazine, and Work It Mom.   She writes at a few more places too.  I mean come on!  She’s been interviewed on national TV!

OK, jumping again.

On my other blog, I have a Tuesday feature in which I interview and highlight other bloggers fighting the same fight.  Because I’d been reading Susan for years, I knew that she was fighting the fight, and thought I’d ask her for an interview.  Worst that can happen?  She says no.  So I wrote her.  I let her know who I was and what I wanted, and mentioned I’d been reading a long time.

Get this.

She wrote back.  Like immediately.  Not only is she doing the interview for the site…  She’s a lurker on this here blog!!

Squee!

WOOT!

Nobody in my life seems to get how cool this is to me!  Perhaps because they don’t blog.  So, I had to share this with others out here in the innernets…  Because SUSAN WAGNER KNOWS WHO I AM!

This is so incredibly cool to me.

There are only three or four of you that consistently comment, and I know who you are (**wave**)  But I know there’s more.  Do you blog?  What’s your blog?  Say hello!

And THANK YOU SUSAN!  You truly made my day.

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