Comment Challenge Day 7: Reflect on What You've Learned So Far

We're on Day 7 of the comment challenge and it's time to take a little break to see what you've learned. So far you've audited your own commenting behavior, commented on a new blog, installed a blog comment tracking service, asked a question in a comment, commented on a post you didn't agree with and responded to another commenter on a blog post.

For today's task, I want you to come up with three lessons you've learned from your experiences so far. Consider what you've learned about yourself as a commenter, what you've learned about the act of commenting, and how you think your recent commenting activities have impacted you as commenter and a blogger.

These don't have to be major sweeping lessons. They can be as simple as "I've learned that I don't comment as often as I'd like." The point is to reflect on what you've been doing in the past week and to consider how you want to use this information to improve your conversational abilities in the blogosphere.  If you blog your lessons, be sure to tag them with the "comment08" tag. You can also feel free to go do some random acts of comment kindness, dropping comments at a few blogs here and there.

Comments

[Kevin]

Thank you for working reflection into the process. I needed that little boost to get me to put down on my blog what was running through my mind.
Kevin

[Michele Martin]

You're welcome, Kevin--it's one of my pet peeves about learning activities that we'll go full tilt through "doing" without necessarily taking time to reflect and incorporate what we've learned. We're doing 31 days of activities and without reflection, I think it would pass by in a blur. Actually, it may still pass by in a blur. :-)

[Ken Allan]

Thanks for the opportunity to have a breather Michele! Here are my reflections in brief.

Ka kite ano
from Middle-earth