How to Comment on Pelleyblog posts

Are you new to blogging? Want to get involved? Share your thoughts and opinions? This post is your "hands-on" chance to learn how to comment while avoiding rookie mistakes.

Comments allow you to become part of a blog. Using comments you can present different perspectives, share your own experiences, offer suggestions, criticize, disagree, ask questions or whatever. Try it today by commenting on this special post designed to guide you through, and to make sure a mistake doesn't somehow get through for everyone to see. Keep reading to learn how.

Posting a comment on Pelleyblog is simple.

At the end of each post, after all text including any "about" information (about me, about Pelleyblog, about my work, etc), you'll see a white box with "posted by," labels, and number of comments.

Click on # comments. That displays comments already published followed by a "leave your comment" box. If there are a lot of comments to this post, you can read through them to the comment box or you can click on Jump to comment form at the top.


Next, write whatever you want to say in the "leave your comment" box. When finished scroll down to "choose an identity." There are four choices including anonymous.

Click on the circle preceding your choice. If you're a registered blogger or are involved with open ID, choose those options.

If you are new at blogging, click either "Name/URL" if you want to create a name just for this post, or anonymous. If you choose "Name/URL," the url entry is optional. If you want us to be able to associate your name with a given url, then enter the url. Otherwise just enter the name you want to use and leave the url blank. (Note: the url is not your email address).

If you want to preview your post, click on the blue button under identity. Your comment will appear in a shaded box as the last comment. It's visible only to you to show you what your comment would look like if published. If you don't see your comment in preview, make sure you have chosen an identity first.

If you want to change your message or your identity, your original comment box and identity choices are under your preview so you can easily make changes and preview again until you're done.

When you're ready to send your comment, click the orange button under identity. The message "Your comment has been saved and will be visible after blog owner approval" appears. Hooray! You're done.

What's next? Your comment comes to us for review and then on to be posted on the blog.

Why a review? We use a review process to keep inappropriate comments, obscenities, scams and spam and other things our viewers don't need off the blog. Beyond those types of comments, its our practice to accept all other comments, including those that disagree with us.

Please try making a comment now. I'll be your safety net. Say hello, good day, great blog, get a job, or anything else just to say hello and see how your comment will actually appear on a blog. Publish your comment to send it for review. Then give me 24 hours.

If you just want to try the process to send the comment to me, but don't want it published through to the blog, be sure to tell me that in your comment. If you have a confidential question or issue and want me to respond directly to you without publishing your comment, include your email address in the body of your comment. I'll do my best to respond via email.

After 24 hours return to Pelleyblog and click on the comments to this post. Unless you told me not to publish your blog (or your post failed for some other reason), you will see your published comment along with the comments of others.

About Pelleyblog: Pelleyblog focuses on management topics for supervisors and other first-line managers. We are an extension of Dan Pelley Educational Services which conducts management development programs primarily in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, although we also serve the other New England states. Pelleyblog welcomes and looks forward to new readers from any geographic location.

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