Yesterday, I posted at my old LiveJournal account which I haven’t updated much since May of this year. I usually used to get around 20 to 30 comments but I’ve noticed that recently, the comments have dwindled to around 2 to 8. My Technorati rank dropped 200,000 spots and I lost a PageRank. It’s a little disconcerting, but it can’t be helped. My LiveJournal community which is linked and friended by 200+ accounts had to take a backseat to my other projects. It was only recently that I realized how great a networking resource it could be.

Knowing that, I decided to start a rescue mission and resuscitate my dying community. It will be tough. I will probably spend more time on it than what I have to spare. But in the end, I believe it will all be worth it. Here are my plans in rescuing my dying community:

1. Start Posting More Frequently

I guess this is the most obvious step of all. If you start posting at a frequent rate again, people are bound to notice you. They’ll start commenting again. They’ll visit your blog more frequently again. They’ll re-subscribe to your feed, link back to your blog more. Think of it as the theory of relativity in action. As long as your blog remains static and dead, there’s nothing to make people want to talk about you.

2. Surf My Friends’ Blogs and Comment

I have 200+ blogs linking to me. It will take me more than one day to surf through all of them and say hi to everyone. With a bit of hard work though, I’ll get everything done in due time. If people start seeing you in their comments section, they’ll realize you’re back and ready to interact with your community again.

3. Start Spreading Links to My Blog Again

Whenever I have a new project, I wear the links to my blogs in my sigs (emails, forums, etc.). Trying to bring a community back to life entails enticing new blood in to join in discussions. They’ll probably be the most to interact with you at first since they’re new to your material. Eventually, the new activities would create a stimulating atmosphere in which the old-timers might like to join.

Trying to liven up a dead community isn’t as hard as promoting a star-up. Still, it requires time, patience and perseverance. I’m bent on going through with my plan. How about you?

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