User Comments

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   2/15/08

   kristilinauer

   One tip you left off:
   
   DON'T send out a broadcast message every day...or two or three a day. It gets ANNOYING.

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      2/15/08

      crkian

      or every 10-20 minutes
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   2/15/08

   clioandme

   I do not like this BC feature, though I might have tried using it once. (Shame on me!) As near as I can tell, it is only used to call my attention to posts I can already learn about through other channels. The broadcasts also rarely catch my eye on my profile page.

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   2/15/08

   abhinavsood

   In my opinion broadcasts became an annoyance when either BC or either broadcasts started getting misused.
   
   If you own a graphic design blog, you won't like the broadcasts from a health and care blog. So bad networking (or a misuse of BlogCatalog itself!) made broadcasts an annoyance.
   
   Now, as I mentioned in the post...
   "Try broadcasting every time you pick your nose or brush your teeth and soon your broadcasts will find a place in nothing better than the recipients’ trash folder in his mailbox. Then, it’s quite probable that your broadcasts won’t even be read before deletion, later, even if they might contain something that deserve their attention."
   this is a misuse of broadcasts!
   
   If you see my broadcasting trends, you'll clearly see I almost never broadcast any personal post, or even the free blog reviews that I do for lame advertising.
   
   I am of a view that if you get only quality content in broadcasts, no matter what quantity, you'll love it.. because, but obviously, it is quality content!
   
   And I never really post a broadcast everyday! I broadcast only on that day when I have something REAL juicy to share. And sometimes a compilation of many posts together in a single broadcast if I think I have broadcast too much over the past few days!
   
   Bloggers need to be sensible...
   
   What say?

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      2/15/08

      clioandme

      I don't know about "bad networking". I have BC friends with different interests than mine, and I'm not sure they'd appreciate regular broadcasts. I've only added 76 friends in the past 8 months, but even that small number represents a wide variety of interests. If I were only to network with people who want my broadcasts, the number would be small indeed.
      
      Edit: I might be mixing something up here, though. Don't broadcasts go out to people who have added me as a friend? Then we're talking a larger number, and I have no control over that process.
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      2/15/08

      ThriftShopRomantic

      I think it does come from your friend list. If it came from my Neighborhoods, it would be a different story. I think many of us have said in the past we join Neighborhoods as a bookmarking tool, and Friends largely as the process you describe above.
      
      But it was getting a bit much with all the Broadcasts. I've turned that off too, and instead am trying harder to visit folks more regularly in my Neighborhood.
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   2/15/08

   Unfettered

   I found broadcasts so annoying in general, I just turned off the email notification and never pay them any attention.

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5. 

   2/15/08

   NINE

   So far I have only added people to my friends list that I have met in person (which means that I have like 9 friends) so broadcasts for me are actually quite effective.
   
   I definitely see how they could be a nuisance with a large number of "friends" but thats why its nice to be able to turn those alerts off if they aren't working for you.
   
   I will say this however... keep your eye out next week for a new BC feature that will make broadcasts MUCH more effective while being MUCH less intrusive. I know it sounds contradictory but its going to be great.

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      2/15/08

      pointlessbanter

      Wait you met me in person and I am not your friend...
      
      Son of a ....
      
      I AM BURNING THIS PLACE TO THE GROUND!!!!!
      
      or something
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      2/15/08

      abhinavsood

      Are you people going to add an option to chose what friends receive a broadcast? That would be so cool. Or you'll let us send broadcasts to the blogs in same category as our own (of course with mutual friends) !
      
      This would be so cool
6. 

   2/15/08

   kweenkong

   Good piece! I think I'm striking a good broadcast balance.
   
   Viqi
   fiercelystrategic.blogspot.com
   urbanislands.blog.com

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   2/16/08

   PetLvr

   I'm broadcast-blind and oblivious to all attempts, in recognization or acknowledgement and never click any links .. in fact - when I scan down my profile page my eyes goes straight from the "Post to Shoutbox" section past broadcasts section directly to "Favorite Discussions" section.

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8. 

   5/24/08

   abhinavsood

   Broadcasting is one feature that puts BlogCatalog way ahead of MyBlogLog or any other such service...

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9. 

   5/24/08

   kaguvkov

   broadcasting here in blog catalog is very much effective than any other site..

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10. 

    1/24/09

    maxad1

    comment removed by the community.

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11. 

    6/08/09

    bethnesbitt

    You can turn it off

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