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June 30, 2007

A recent post of mine was meant to encourage blog owners to reply to their visitors who leave comments. I see this as a critical factor in a blog’s success.

That post echoed one Mike wrote last week. Since then, he, Brown Baron and myself had a quick brainstorming session this morning. And thanks to Mike’s graphic skills, he came up with a great looking symbol to promote the concept. So I’m pleased to announce the iReply movement!

I understand that we, as blog owners, can’t always commit to replying to every single comment that is made. As far as problems go, you have to admit that it’s a good problem to have, but that’s not what this movement is about. The overall motivation here is to simply tell your visitors that you have an interactive place and that you encourage discussion.

So if you feel inclined, please feel free to download the image to your server, post it on your blog, and help us spread the word.

Though not a requirement to use the image or even join the movement, but perhaps you might consider linking back to this post when you do. :)

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99 Responses to “Join The iReply Movement”

  1. Reader Appreciation Project » Where it’s all about the readers. on November 30th, 1999 12:00 am

    movement, which was pretty successful (if we only think that Andy Beard’s “No Nofollow | Follow | Do Follow” is one of the most popular communities of BUMPzee!), here comes the time for another blogging movement designed with the reader in mind: iReply. Initiated by Mark from MeAndMyDrum, together with Mike from ThingsByMike and BrownBaron, the iReply movement is the answer to an issue many readers have: why some bloggers don’t react to comments.

  2. Christy's Coffee Break on November 30th, 1999 12:00 am

    [IMG ] My fellow bloggers Mike from Ordinary Folk, Brown Baron from Brown Thoughts, and Mark from Me and My Drum have come up with one seriously good idea! The iReply movement is a way to let your readers know that you will reply to their comments, and readers won’t have to wonder whether their comment will go unnoticed. If you see the iReply badge on someone’s

  3. Life in the country.. on November 30th, 1999 12:00 am

    [IMG] [IMG] Join the iReply movement

  4. bento, restos & recipes at http://www.kitchencow.com on November 30th, 1999 12:00 am

    Eat drink and be merry. For tomorrow we may diet. - Harry Kurnitz [IMG ireply_comment.gif]

  5. Here’s to Life! on November 30th, 1999 12:00 am

    [IMG Add to Technorati Favorites] [IMG ] Subscribe in a reader [IMG imarockingirlblogger11.jpg] [IMG ireply_darkbg.gif]

  6. zarine on November 30th, 1999 12:00 am

    [IMG] Join now!

  7. The Blog Columnist on November 30th, 1999 12:00 am

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  8. .mY sUnnY siDe Up. on November 30th, 1999 12:00 am

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  9. Hummie's World on November 30th, 1999 12:00 am

    able to search and find every single comment I made. I like the privacy. Seeing this logo sometimes makes me hesitate to comment instead. I wonder if they realize the reverse effect it has. In addition, I am not too concerned with ratings. [IMG ] MeandMyDrum has a similar concept, but more true to purpose. I have already long ago been following the practice he suggest. I always try to follow back as best I can and return a comment when someone comments here. It just plain ‘ol makes people feel good to get

  10. Join The iReply Movement (reddit.com) on June 30th, 2007 1:58 pm

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  11. Mike on June 30th, 2007 2:09 pm

    Viva le revolucion! Or something like that :mrgreen:

  12. Mark on June 30th, 2007 2:13 pm

    Woo-hoo! :grin:

  13. Brown Baron on June 30th, 2007 2:14 pm

    What if people actually comment on my post? You know I’m shy :lol:

  14. StumbleUpon » Your page is now on StumbleUpon! on June 30th, 2007 2:19 pm

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  15. Mike on June 30th, 2007 2:23 pm

    Just take a deep breath and start tapping away on the keyboard. It doesn’t necessarily have to be coherent :P

  16. Adam Donkus on June 30th, 2007 2:35 pm

    Sounds like a brilliant idea to me…right up there with the “Do Follow” movement.

  17. Grace on June 30th, 2007 2:43 pm

    And I wasn’t in it? Awww… :mrgreen:

  18. Grace on June 30th, 2007 2:44 pm

    Brown Baron- It’s okay. Take a deep breath like Mike said. :grin:
    Mike- I think it’s vive le révolution. :grin:

  19. Mike on June 30th, 2007 2:59 pm

    Ehh…I’m a blogger not a linguist…lol. I was close :mrgreen:

  20. Mark on June 30th, 2007 3:23 pm

    But don’t breathe too fast — can’t have you hyperventilating! I’m sure we can find you a support group somewhere if the need arises. :lol:

  21. Mark on June 30th, 2007 3:24 pm

    Hi Adam, thanks for the kind words!

    Hey everybody: be sure to check out Adam’s blog, I got a kick out of his rotating head. :lol:

  22. Mark on June 30th, 2007 3:26 pm

    Thanks for helping these guys out. :smile:

    And thanks for sticking around!

  23. Benedict Herold on June 30th, 2007 6:17 pm

    hurray… you know im already in :-)

  24. Mark on June 30th, 2007 7:12 pm

    I had a feeling you would be. ;)

  25. Benedict Herold on June 30th, 2007 9:21 pm

    I’m always with you for anything Mark since you have already flattered me :-)

  26. Blog About Your Blog on June 30th, 2007 9:46 pm

    […] this new concept of yours? It’s called iReply. We know that sometimes it’s hard to reply to every single comment to a post, but […]

  27. Brown Baron on July 1st, 2007 12:26 am

    Deep breathing is different from heavy breathing right? Hey it’s the weekend and I get confused easily :mrgreen:

  28. Snoskred on July 1st, 2007 1:35 am

    Hi, I’m reading you via the No Nofollow | I Follow | DoFollow Community at Bumpzee, on the RSS feed.

    This is a great idea. I’ve put the image in my sidebar, and I’ll give it a try. ;) Always ready to look for ways to improve.. ;)

    Looking forward to reading more from you. :)

    Snoskred
    http://snoskred.blogspot.com/

  29. Mark on July 1st, 2007 1:42 am

    Hi Snoskred! Thanks for posting the logo! :wink:

  30. Brown Baron on July 1st, 2007 2:27 am

    Welcome to the iReply Liberation Army Community!

  31. Jamaipanese on July 1st, 2007 8:23 am

    i’m in ^_^ great idea

  32. Mark on July 1st, 2007 9:39 am

    Hey there Jamaipanese, glad to have your support! :wink:

  33. Entry List - No Nofollow | I Follow | DoFollow Community @ BUMPzee! on July 1st, 2007 9:48 am

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  34. Mark on July 1st, 2007 9:56 am

    Gosh, now that you make it sound so official, it sounds like we need letterhead and business cards.

    Mike? ;)

  35. Mike on July 1st, 2007 11:17 am

    Can’t do it. Today is Sunday. May day off from the internet and all things blogging. Oh wait….forget I was here…

  36. Bob on July 1st, 2007 1:09 pm

    So, what if you don’t reply? Any logo available for that ?:)

  37. Mark on July 1st, 2007 1:24 pm

    Hehe…smartypants. :razz:

  38. Join the “I Reply” Movement - My Online World on July 1st, 2007 10:22 pm

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  39. Vicente Jr. Tapungot on July 2nd, 2007 12:26 am

    I really like the idea about this iReply Movement :!:

  40. Mark on July 2nd, 2007 12:29 am

    Hi Vicente, I appreciate you stopping by and commenting. I hope you’ll decide to help us spread the word, and possibly even upload the logo to your blog. :)

  41. Vicente Jr. Tapungot on July 2nd, 2007 1:00 am

    Can you teach me how?

  42. Mark on July 2nd, 2007 6:33 am

    Sure thing. It’ll be just like the other things you’ve added to your sidebar. Just right-click on the iReply logo and select “Save image as” to save it somewhere on your desktop. Then just upload it like you’ve done for things like your Amazon widget. ;)

  43. Monday Linking- July 2 2007 » NeonScent on July 2nd, 2007 10:12 pm

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  44. Matt Keegan on July 5th, 2007 5:01 am

    Back and forth comments is an excellent way to build up a blog. All those added comments stretch out the article, making them link juice for the search engines including Google.

  45. Mark on July 5th, 2007 6:58 am

    Hi Matt, thanks for the kind words and your support. :wink:

  46. Brown Baron on July 5th, 2007 10:54 am

    So how do I join this secret society? Is there a secret handshake? :mrgreen:

  47. Mark on July 5th, 2007 6:54 pm

    LOL :D I’ll have to send you the details via carrier pigeon. It’s really the only safe way, you know. ;)

  48. ForumeR on July 20th, 2007 3:31 pm

    I think, for bloggers, it’s better to reply at his / her blog. Example i came here comment, then as a reply u comment at my blog. now that means co operate between bloggers. If we reply in our blog, it’s looks like we just think of ourselves :D

    So for bloggers, it’s better reply at commentor’s blog, but for plain visitors, it’s ok to reply at our own blog

    Best regards
    :)

  49. Mark on July 21st, 2007 2:48 am

    That’s something I haven’t thought about. Thanks for stopping by! :)

  50. ladynred on July 26th, 2007 10:43 pm

    This is great idea. Thanks! I’m grabbing the logo now!

  51. Mark on July 26th, 2007 10:52 pm

    Hi ladynred! Thanks so much for your support. :)

  52. A Byootaful Life on August 31st, 2007 3:12 am

    m a firm believer that an updated and personalised sidebar is a good thing for your blog! Anyway, back to the new buttons. Let me explain what they mean - maybe they’re just what you’re looking for too![IMG ireply_litebg.gif]

  53. Josh Rosenberg on September 3rd, 2007 10:23 am

    Gotsta love the windy morning, up early and the weather outside is wild and inside you’re coffee and calm perhaps back to bed for some time. [IMG ]A couple notes on the following picture by the ‘creators’ here andhere- a modest movement for sure.

  54. Carol on September 5th, 2007 8:27 am

    I am in on this with you all!

  55. Mark on September 5th, 2007 11:11 am

    Hi Carol! I hope you’ve been keeping out of trouble. :wink: Good to see you here and to have your support in this revolution.

  56. My View of "It" on September 5th, 2007 2:52 pm

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  58. Raquel on September 6th, 2007 10:01 am

    I am grabbing the logo…thanks. :razz:

  59. You Comment, I Reply! » Reader Appreciation Project on September 7th, 2007 4:41 pm

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  60. Mark on September 7th, 2007 10:13 pm

    Hi Raquel, thanks for your support! And thanks for stopping by! :)

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  62. Starfeeder on September 9th, 2007 12:16 pm

    Cool, I’ll make my post and link to the 3 of you. :mrgreen:

  63. Mark on September 9th, 2007 12:25 pm

    @Starfeeder: that’s very kind of you. Thanks for joining iReply! :)

  64. Mega Voltage on September 15th, 2007 1:35 am

    [IMG] [IMG][IMG You Comment, iReply!]

  65. Everybody lies on September 20th, 2007 12:33 am

    re looking through them all once more. This plugin now is supposed to help you keep track of all your comments. I will test it in the next few days and report back at a later date with my opinion of it. 13. The iFollow and theiReplymovements Both are pretty much self-explanatory. iFollow means that I have a plugin that deactivates the no_follow attribute for links in the comments. So, if you leave a comment on my site, it is a proper backlink to your site, one that search

  66. Everyday ME .. life as it happens on September 20th, 2007 10:19 pm

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  67. Samanatha and Tigger Welcome You on September 22nd, 2007 11:13 pm

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  68. Rose on September 28th, 2007 11:51 am

    I think the ireply movement was a good idea, but I have commented on numerous blogs that are part of this movement only to find that they are NOT replying.

  69. Mark on September 29th, 2007 7:17 am

    @Rose: as I posted on Blog About Your Blog, I would like to think that your experiences are few and far between. My experiences have been more positive, so I surmise that you just hit some bloggers while they were swamped with other things. You’ll always get a response here though! Thanks for stopping by! :smile:

  70. 1000 Words on October 2nd, 2007 5:56 pm

    choose from - makes me wonder just how many themes I could actually fit from my archives without having to shoot anything new. But why writing, you ask? Well, over the weekend, I briefly happened upon a blog which proudly sported the following logo:[IMG ]I clicked it (as you can, if you’d like) to see what it was about. Apparently there’s a large group of people who think that you should reply to your blog comments, and who are starting a movement featuring this logo, to highlight blogs which do. If

  71. The Hot Dog Truck on October 3rd, 2007 2:43 am

    movement and by doing so I’m saying discussion is welcome and encouraged at the Hot Dog Truck (no spam or anonymous comments, please). Count me in! You can read more about it and get the graphic (pictured below and in the left side bar) at his site:Me and My Drum. Check it out and join the iReply Movement! [IMG ]

  72. BlogsWeLuv » Blog Archive » Aaron Cook Dot Com: A Blog We Luv on October 10th, 2007 11:52 pm

    […] by his readers, which gets high marks in my book. In fact, I’m making him a member of the iReply Movement whether he wants it or not. […]

  73. Rolando on October 11th, 2007 8:41 am

    Sign me up! Thanks for creating the movement!

  74. R Playground on October 11th, 2007 6:09 pm

    International language support can be found here. [IMG Ebru and Rolando] Thank you for visiting, Ebru and Rolando [IMG R Playground Badge] [IMG Add to Technorati Favorites] [IMG Creative Commons License][IMG iReply]Our disclosure page.

  75. Mark on October 11th, 2007 8:03 pm

    Hi Rolando, I’m glad to have your support! And thanks for stopping by. :)

  76. Rolando on October 13th, 2007 4:44 pm

    No problem Mark, glad to support the cause! :)

  77. Hawk’s Place on October 16th, 2007 3:21 am

    [IMG ireply21]

  78. iReply: community and commenting « unrelenting ambiguity on October 17th, 2007 3:35 pm

    […] I saw it on Hawk’s place (and he’ll tell you where he saw it) and followed the links to Me And My Drum, who posted about the movement that was started after various conversations among blogger […]

  79. mundane matters in the life of lynn on October 18th, 2007 5:39 pm

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  80. pelf on October 19th, 2007 4:01 am

    I noticed the “I Reply” movement quite some time ago, but only today I am able to track it down to the person who started it :)

    I’m placing it up on my blog! :D
    pelf’s last blog post..PhotoShow: 100 meters

  81. Mark on October 19th, 2007 6:28 am

    @pelf:
    It was me and my two buddies. Thanks so much for your support!

  82. mundane matters in the life of lynn » Blog Archive » vacation planning on October 19th, 2007 2:00 pm

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  83. Online Public Relations on October 21st, 2007 7:21 pm

    … that when you adopt a personal writing style (like me talking to YOU), you have to have the courtesy to reply to comments. You have to take your time and give an answer and you have to make that answer relevant and personal too. Theyou comment I reply movementis no longer a new phenomenon, although it started only this year, on June 30. But everything in the blogosphere happens at a fast pace. Trends are summer showers. Not this one though. It shouldn’t be a trend. It should be a mark of blogging ethic.

  84. belinha on October 24th, 2007 3:31 am

    I will use the badge! :idea:
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  85. Mark on October 24th, 2007 6:23 am

    @belinha
    Thank you for supporting iReply! :)

  86. iReply . . . « Hawk’s Place on November 26th, 2007 8:36 am

    […] During a recent visit at Rolando’s Playground, I noticed the above image on his sidebar. Generally, I would not have given it a second-glance except for one thing, I had seen this image on other sites. I was never too inclined to look into what it was about until I was at R’s Playground on this occasion. With curiosity getting the best of me, I clicked on the image and sure enough, was redirected to MeAndMyDrum, where I read this post titled Join The iReply Movement. […]

  87. Rudy’s Blog » Blog Archive » Being Social on December 4th, 2007 12:53 pm

    […] out there such as Randa Clay’s “U Comment, I Follow” and Mike/Mark/BB “iReply” that promotes legit comments that encourages […]

  88. Toinker on December 14th, 2007 4:57 pm

    What a brilliant idea you started. Im going to join this new blogging revolution. :grin:

  89. Mark on December 14th, 2007 5:11 pm

    @Toinker
    Glad to have you! Thanks for your support. :)

  90. CyberCelt on January 6th, 2008 10:39 am

    I always reply to commenters on my blog. It may take a day or week or two, but I try to answer any questions immediately. I absolutely hate the comment answered in an email.

    I will post the badge and link to this post. Thanks for sharing.

    CyberCelt’s last blog post..Blog Your Blessings : Maps

  91. Mark on January 6th, 2008 10:42 am

    @CyberCelt
    Very cool! Thanks for supporting this. :)

  92. Jon on January 31st, 2008 1:10 am

    I just came across the ireply movement and I must say it’s a great idea for everyone. I’m looking forward to implement this on my Forex blog in order to benefit everyone.
    I will definetely use your logo and help spread the word.

    Jon’s last blog post..Chinese Currency Forecast To Rise 9% In 2008

  93. Mark on January 31st, 2008 7:29 am

    @Jon
    It’s great to have your support. Thanks! :)

  94. Eve on March 9th, 2008 9:31 am

    I think this is a great idea. I have put your button with a link back to this page on my sidebar. I sometimes need to be reminded to do the polite thing and reply to my visitors. Thanks.

    Eve’s last blog post..Photo Hunt 6: Different

  95. Mark on March 9th, 2008 9:40 am

    @Eve
    Welcome to MeAndMyDrum! :)
    I’m glad to have your support in iReply. Thanks so much!

  96. Jennifer on May 9th, 2008 3:12 pm

    Hi,
    I saw your movement on Eve’s website and felt that it was a good idea. I am a college student and I am studying internet’s impact on communication. I totally think bloggers are the next wave of communication. It’s personal. It’s open. It’s a great way to bring people together without money to travel the world. Blog on bloggers!

    I have added your badge to my blog.

    Seriously, great idea!

    Jennifer

    Jennifers last blog post..We Gotta Have More Cowbell

  97. Mark on May 9th, 2008 8:12 pm

    @Jennifer
    Welcome to MeAndMyDrum! :) Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a comment and for supporting the iReply Movement. I wish you the best of luck with your studies! ;)

  98. Isles Tech on May 12th, 2008 2:31 am

    However, some (most?) readers do not bother to follow up (and won’t check the checkbox button for follow up via email). So, for example, it seems pointless to reply to someone who just stumbled upon the page, found it interesting, and left a comment as a way of thanking the blogger.

    Isles Techs last blog post..Free eBook widget

  99. Mark on May 13th, 2008 7:17 am

    @Isles Tech
    Well, I prefer to err on the side of “just in case they do happen to monitor the comments”. There’s always a possibility that they might.

    Good to see you here!

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