Blog Comments: Should Your Blog Shut Down Comments?
Social Media Marketing Podcast
Michael Stelzner, Social Media Examiner
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2014
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Do you like to get comments on your blog? Have you ever wondered if you should allow comments or shut them down?
In this episode, I interview Mark Schaefer, a college educator and author of four books. His blog is Grow and his latest book is Social Media Explained. Tim McDonald is director of community at the Huffington Post, founder of My Community Manager and a member of the No Kid Hungry Social Council.
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| 0:00.0 | Just a quick reminder before we start today's show |
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| 0:14.0 | Again, Social Media Marketing World. |
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| 0:18.0 | Welcome to the Social Media Marketing Podcast, helping you navigate the social media jungle. |
| 0:27.0 | And now here's your host, Michael Stelsner. |
| 0:31.5 | Hello, hello, hello, thank you so much for joining me for the Social Media |
| 0:35.4 | Marketing Podcast brought to you by Social Media Examiner.com. I'm your host |
| 0:41.4 | Michael Stelsner and this is the podcast for marketers and business owners |
| 0:46.0 | who want to know what works with social media. I'm very excited about today's show. |
| 0:51.4 | Today I'll be joined by Mark Schaefer |
| 0:54.6 | and Tim McDonald. |
| 0:56.2 | Mark is from the blog Grow and Tim McDonald is from Huffington Post. |
| 1:00.3 | And we're going to explore the value of blog comments. |
| 1:04.4 | Should you keep them? |
| 1:05.3 | Should you shut them down? |
| 1:06.7 | That's what we're going to talk about today. |
| 1:08.7 | Before we get into that interview, I have an awesome new discovery |
| 1:11.8 | that I'd like to share with you right now. |
| 1:13.6 | After introducing a vegetarian diet to piranhas, look what Michael Stelsner discovered. |
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