How to fix it so I can send you sweet arse email replies to your comments!

2/23/12

I'm stealing this post from my dear, awesome friend Michelle @ SoWonderfulSoMarvelous. (Seriously, check her out!)

Blogger Users: So, how would you like to get some awesome email from me? Like a direct response to your comment? Well, if you haven't already done so, enable your email address in your blogger profile. It won't share your email or post it, it just shows me your email when you comment. And I'll never share your email, not that I'd even know how. I mean, I had to ask Michelle how to even do this! Blogger and iTunes. My secret technical Achilles' heel.

Here goes. Big props to Michelle for this. I even stole her title. I did edit these instructions for use with the new blogger interface. If you are still using the old one, (tsk tsk), check out Michelle's instructions.

  1. You see the little button up there in the right hand corner of Blogger that says "Dashboard"?  Click on it. (Actually, if you'd like, right-click on it and say "open in new tab/page, that way these directions stay open too.)
  2. If you are using the new interface, click on your profile name in the upper right corner and then click "Blogger Profile" 
  3. Then click "Edit Profile".
  4. Under privacy click the little box that says "Show My Email Address".  This doesn't post your email anywhere weird, it just allows bloggers to reply to your comments.
  5. If you'd like, {or you can skip this} you can scroll down to the Identity section and change your email address to whatever you'd like or just keep it the same email that you use to log into Blogger.  {So if you're nervous about having your email out there, create an email address that you only use for blogging!}
  6. Save your profile!  TA DAAAAA You're done. 
Now I can answer your comment questions directly!

This is for blogger users, if you don't have a blog you can still create a blogger profile and then do the steps above. I'm looking for an easy way to let 'anonymous users' reply with their email address, but I haven't found it!

Thanks!



3 comments:

  1. Hi Nikki - I've seen a bunch of blogs using the DISQUS platform....readers can either have a DISQUS profile or manually enter info (name email website). Was that what you're looking for?

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    1. I researched that a little and the only thing that worries me is that if you ever remove it, you lose all your comments! I'll have to double check though.

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