The Reader Appreciation Project

While it can be very easy to start a blog, it can be quite hard to maintain it. From writing blog posts, coming up with topics to write about and bringing in visitors to answering e-mails, replying to comments and keeping people interested in your blog, the entire concept of blogging can be the most time consuming online activity in your life. And that can be for a good reason too, because all the time and effort you put into your blog pays off in both the short and the long run. The one thing you have to realize through your entire blogging effort is consistency.

Being consistent in your blogging efforts basically means that you keep maintaining your entire blog and the elements related to it at least on an almost regular basis. For example, if your blog gives blog readers one new article in July, two articles in August, 20 articles in September and then 5 articles in October, people may simply lost interest in your blog because of the inconsistent scheduling of your blog posts. While consistency itself may have nothing to do with the quality of your blog and blogging efforts, blog readers do try to incorporate your blog and your ideas into their already active lives. Being consistent means your blog readers can find it easier to be interested in your blog in both the long and the short run.

In order to have a successful blog, you need to be consistent in your blogging efforts. The following list will help you focus on 5 things in your blogging efforts in order to be more consistent.

5 Things to Be Consistent About on Your Blog

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Comcast is the largest internet and cable services company in the United States, with around 16 million customers in its internet division alone. With such a massive number of customers, in addition to over 23 million customers who have Comcast TV, it can be pretty hard for the company to keep up with support. Phone support is the main form of getting help from Comcast, though Comcast is working on changing that.

The new age of Twitter has brought in a lot of publicity for Comcast, with hundreds of thousands of people on Twitter and other social media venues complaining daily about the bad service or support they get from Comcast. Comcast is paying attention to such publicity, and has in response launched a set of Twitter accounts that have the central tagline: “Comcast Cares!”

In real life, does Comcast really care? Does the new @ComcastCares channel help users in ways that the Comcast telephone support cannot? Does Comcast really appreciate its customers through @ComcastCares? Is @ComcastCare effective in helping customers with their problems? This RA Project review of @ComcastCares will help you decide.

What is @ComcastCares

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Here I am, in California, USA, at 11:10 pm. My Comcast internet service has been down for 2 days now, and Comcast tells me I will have to go to a Comcast store tomorrow morning to figure out what the problem could be with my cable modem. Because of this, the 2 days of no internet have resulted in a few issues, including the issue of me not being able to participate in the photography contest by Jeffro. I told him I would participate, and since tonight is the last day of the contest, I realize I will not be able to participate. Long live Comcast, emergency traveling, food and procrastination.

Because of this, I am thinking about many things including one simple question: what alternative communication plans do I have in times like these? What alternative, secondary communication plans or tools do you have in place for such situations? Read more…