When you write your blog entries and/or read your favorite blogs, are you participating and becoming part of the conversation or are you just writing and reading without any interaction? Commenting on blogs is a great way to extend your presence online, meet other bloggers, business owners, and potential customers, and ultimately drive more traffic to your own blog and website. This blogger goes so far as to argue that:

“A blog without comments enabled is not a blog. It’s more like a church pulpit. You preach the word, and the audience passively receives your evangelical message.”

These two innovators were looking to take advantage of their captured audience at their upcoming wedding. They wanted to develop a website that would be a sustainable, long term project that would develop throughout their marriage. Positioned around their passions for each other, food & wine they have started a really cool site to:“…last long after we’ve posted the last wedding picture and one our friends and family and people who care to hear our thoughts could check back in and see what we’re up to, what we’re drinking, and what we’re eating.”