cookies, and other

[jazzfish]

One thing about being awake and not going to yoga is that I'm reading Dreamwidth on my real laptop instead of at work. Which means that I see siderea's The Recipe for how to build community on DW, and have the time/space to share and reflect on it.

I've some sort of personal aversion to short linky posts without much to say about them: it doesn't feel like DW is the right venue for that. But I do recognise that more posts are better for engagement / community. So.

And maybe this will get me back in the habit of, you know, /writing/ here.

... here, have a couple of other links too.

The Cookie Experiment: "And I had a flash of insight: 'Wait. There WAS no other activity. The real experiment was to count how many cookies I ate.'"

Followup-ish, Cookies for Claris: "This is applied cookie psychology. This is I/O cookie psychology. It's cookie psychological engineering."

Comments

[blaisepascal]

Comments are good. Comments are likely to keep me writing.

But I can't write comments to my posts and be successful (except as part of a _conversation_ that someone else already engaged in). So it's not fully relevant to the recipe of what I can do on my blog to increase community. You could say that comments and engagement are the _goal_ of the recipe, not _part_ of the recipe.

Of course, commenting on other peoples entries helps and is important.

[jazzfish]

There's probably some useful guidance to be had around how to engage in comments and how to keep people coming back... but yeah, I absolutely agree re "goal not part of".