Where should I create a community around my blog (Techmamas.com?). With a Facebook fan page, Google Connect, Ning, FriendFeed?

Google Connect works with any blog. But Disqus is up and coming too. Usually you'd use the blog software's commenting system to generate discussion on your blog.

However sometimes people don't want to join your blog and register, just to comment. If your blog software doesn't have any commenting features or you want something bigger and better than what is built-in, a couple of solutions are Google Friend Connect and DisQus. These will keep the discussion comments posted on your site.

Google Friend Connect: "Anyone can join your site and discover other members by using information from a variety of services, including Google, Yahoo, Twitter, AOL, orkut, and Plaxo, strengthening your community as visitors become members. " For an alternative check out DisQus: "Disqus is a powerful comment system that easily enhances the discussion on websites. In minutes, connect your community with those of thousands of other websites.

Track conversations across the web, plus bridge discussions with your favorite services such as FriendFeed and Plaxo. " With something like FriendFeed, the commenting is back over on the Friendfeed site. You link posts from your blog to show up on FF and then viewers would post comments there.

With Facebook, you can control who can be part of your community, as the Friending process is pretty good. But if you want anyone to publicly comment on your blog, you should chose something else. So the best depends on where you get your traffic from.

If you blog generates it's own traffic page views, then use a system that keeps the commenting within. If you need to get more eyeballs from other social communities, maybe hanging on Friendfeed or Facebook would be better, with Posts on your blog being updated/linked onto your Friendfeed or Facebook page.

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