Typepad Connect looks useful

Says on the site that you can “turn your audience into a lively community with a suite of powerful commenting and community tools” which looks useful.

  • Make your blog the center of discussion.
  • Track and manage comments with ease.
  • Create a lively community with reader profiles.
  • Free and compatible with Movable Type, WordPress.org, Blogger, Tumblr, TypePad.

More here to chew on if that wets your appetite

New, new town

Thanks to everyone who’s sent their good wishes for my new community consultancy role with Sift, in Bristol. It was excellent experience setting up ION online communities at the ICAEW, which I aim to put to good use for my new clients.

My one remaining thought to help IT Counts achieve ‘take-off’ and move from to the next stage is two-fold. Firstly, promote the login integration with the corporate site. Secondly, couple that with explicit news that the ‘consent to be contacted by MS’ is removed from the sign-up process. Of course there are plenty of other things that are needed to achieve sustainability. Coming up with a compelling reason to sign up and take part is part of that.