This chapter will focus on how to develop and organize your community. We will focus on both online and offline community-building.
- Online community building
- Polls
- Comments
- Writing posts which encourage and request comments
- Responding to comments
- "Bumping" comments to the front page
- Diaries
- What are diaries?
- Letting good diaries float to the top
- "Bumping" great diaries to the front page
- Offline community building
- Bloggers' picnics
- Blogger happy hour at Drinking Liberally
- Encourage your readers to join you in volunteering for a local candidate
- Publicize rallies, conferences, and other events
