I had never paid much attention to MyBlogLog, even with the announcement that it was just bought by Yahoo, until I saw an example of what a blog community's page looked like on the site because someone had clicked here from it. I was intrigued at the idea of being able to find out more about the people reading my blog and discovering new sites that my readers frequent. Presumably, someone who is interested in my content would be looking at other things I might want to know about too.

On MyBlogLog, you can join a blog's community as a member, see who else has joined, leave messages, and explore what other likeminded people are interested in. I have seen other sites with the "Recent Readers" widget (see green box in my sidebar), but didn't realize how many people are MyBlogLog members until I put the code on my site and started seeing people coming through immediately.

So let's try this out. If you're a MyBlogLog member, or if you would like to become one, go to the Spare Change community page and click on "Join Community." We can get to know each other and discover some new sites together. What do you think?

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And speaking of community, one of my fellow bloggers, Nancy Schwartz of Getting Attention, is asking for your input through a survey she is conducting on nonprofit communication trends. Take the survey here within the next week or two, and Nancy will be reporting back on what she finds so we can all benefit from pooling our combined knowledge.


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