Wanna chat?
Yesterday, when I posted my last post and was ready to sleep, I was so surprised to receive another comment on my blog… by the Internet Marketing guru Stephen Pierce! Well, you can argue that that there is no way to guarantee that the person behind the screen typing is Mr Pierce himself, but I shall not be skeptical and just believe that its him.
Don’t you think it so nice? There are almost a thousand of attendees at the summit, and many are actually very new to the Internet. Can you image someone of his status to actually come an drop a comment on my blog? I didn’t even sign up for his package!
A simple gesture makes a whole lot of difference.
Anyway, I realise that these comments are getting hidden under the posts, and many of my readers only visit the main page of the blog, so in order to promote more conversation on this blog, I surfed on and found this Recent Comments plugin… so now on the sidebar you will see the list of recent comments, and you will know who has been “in town”! 
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Tan Kian Ann is blog marketer based in Singapore. He now works with individuals and small businesses reach out to the world using blogs. 
December 2nd, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Visit Amrit Hallan
Hi Kian. The comment section is visible — I think — only on your main page and not on the pages having direct links to your blog posts. Since I came from my RSS feed straight to your post, I was wondering where the comment section. Then I went to your home page and there it was. I think you should put is on your post pages too (single.php, perhaps?)
December 2nd, 2006 at 8:25 pm
Visit Kian Ann
Thanks Amrit! You helped me realise how reader read my blog - yeah, I originally had it only on my main page. Now its been edited already so it appears on both the main page and my individual posts.
December 2nd, 2006 at 10:21 pm
Visit JRB Technology
Wanna chat?…
You’ve probably noticed the “Pinged and Referenced by DigBack “ on this website. DigBack is a cool program that lets you find other blogs posts of similar content to your own, and puts a link on those blog posts back to your blog posts, all u…
December 3rd, 2006 at 12:37 am
Visit Mike
Brilliant plugin it made me think about my blog looking at the comments section it doesn’t really stand out as much as i would like it, the plugin is brilliant though thanks for telling us about it.
I can see the recent comments plugin encouraging more people to comment as well brilliant idea!
December 3rd, 2006 at 12:40 am
Visit Kian Ann
Thanks Mike for dropping by once again!
Yeah, what happened was I realised that people are coming in via the individual posts, so if they post a comment in the post, nobody would know about them!
So this plug-in does great in highlighting those comments.