This is not a success story; I leave that to my friend Liane Schmidt who does a wonderful job on that. And the tips on how to get more views to your pages are plentiful. What I want to go into is personal feelings about the Triond community and about articles, your own or somebody else’s.
When you write and put up your articles in Triond or anywhere, you put them up to be read and commented on. At this point, you better put on your bullet proof west, as the comments may be quite low. With the new identification possibilities offered in the comments section, it has become easier to distinguish writers from anonymous readers. If you are soft skinned, make a habit of only reading the writers comments and ignore the others. The others are but grey mice spooking you.
At no time should you take any comment personally as it pertains to the article and not yourself. If it is communicated in such a way, then the shame is on the commenter and not on the author. Keep this in mind. I myself have the disposition of an elephant and read them all, and have a good laugh at them at the same time. But sometimes even Triond writers seem to slip into brainlessness, and I recently found a comment added to an article that was both racist and demeaning against an island population in the Indian Ocean.
I haven’t read that persons work yet, and I won’t in the future. Snobbishness is not a prerequisite to good writing, and that writer did not recommend either himself or his writing.
After having choked up on bad comments about your writing, you really start to see the advantages of the Triond family. Lauren Axelrod did a beautiful article on that just now: What’s Your Purpose of Being Here?. You can make friends in here, and you can ask them for help or advice. And if you see an article from a friend that really hits the dumps, you may mail your comment on it privately to that person. It is not necessary to humiliate your friends in the comments section.
But the family part of Triond is not restricted to taking or giving advice. It is also about reading and being interested in other’s work. I don’t read everything my friends publish, because it might cover themes I am currently not interested in, or because I don’t want to read a poem that day. Their work is in their profiles and can be go at later just as well. But I do read a lot, and when I have more to say than I Like, for which there is a button, then I leave a comment there. For me, these comments on my articles are worth more than the cents that come in from page views.
Family means to share your friends, too. I must say, I don’t understand writers who don’t want to show their friends in their profile. I like to show my friends there and hope that somebody will go to their profile and see what wonderful works they have written, or see their beautiful photographs or listen to their music. But this is a haphazard way to give your friends a helping hand.
I was therefore overjoyed when Glynis Smy started her Triond Bandwagon. If you haven’t seen it, go there. It’s all about how to share your friends; and then go and put in your amazing writing friends in the comments section, so everybody may have a look at their work. That’s what's, for me, the essence of the Triond family, sharing your friends with all family members.
It was in my mind to post something like this in a short while..
After reading this article I dont think I could have written this good.
This article definately had your share and you did it pretty Good.