Blogs and other online forums give us the ability to interact with different people who share interests with us. Perhaps it is a creative community that allows members to give feedback on photos or stories. Perhaps it is academic and people can share research topics, information, reliable sources, or critiques. Or maybe it is someone's political views which sparks fierce debate on their page about the stance they took. Regardless of what the community is based on, it is important that member be able to post comments on each others' posts.
A community for writers or PR people is a great opportunity to post work, be it advertisement campaigns, essays, short stories, etc and receive feedback from professionals working in the same field. It is sort of collaborative learning in a way - they teach each other and help each other improve their work, test it on a knowledgeable audience, with the full belief that they themselves will benefit as well.
I'm following a few of my classmate on their 13 Things Blogs - I want to follow some of them on their other blogs as well. So far I don't see how I can be a lot of help to them, but I do know that it is good when I have a question to be able to share it with the person whether or not they respond.
Labels help us categorize our posts and make them more accessible to memory. My labels for this are rather lame so far - I don't know how to categorize them easily, but I can see the use. Let's say I want to look up the posts I've made about "social networking" stuff - I go to the tab and click on "social networking" and viola! There is all I've written regarding that topic. It can help you with others' posts as well. Perhaps I am interested about what a person says about a particular subject and I want to learn more about what they have to say on it - I can see if that subject is tagged as such and find the other posts with that same tag. My question though: just how many tags per post is too much?
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