I’m all for a challenge, especially a challenge that encourages active engagement in the digital community, seeks to move people away from the one-way information stream and gets conversations started. So I am joining my new friends Lauren Pressley and Marianne Lenox (along with not-as-new friend Sheila Kearns) in tackling the 31 Day Comment Challenge.

The premise is simply to push bloggers who accept the challenge to be more proactive about commenting on other people’s blogs. The challenge is structured around a series of daily activities designed to gradually push you further and further beyond your normal commenting behavior. At least, that’s what I’m anticipating. The progression of the first few activities looks promising.

The group of challengers (which, as of my signing up, number 96) is using coComment to track and share the conversations they are starting. This is a good excuse for me to get back in the habit of following up on the conversations I already start on other blogs. I’d tried coComment some time ago and found it too cumbersome for me to want to use regularly. The Firefox extension makes it much simpler and much more likely that I will actually track conversations. It’s worth checking out.

I’m sure this is not the first time something like this has been attempted, but it comes at just the right time for my renewed desire to start and join conversations. It’s about to be day 3, so I’d better get crackin’. Like I said, I’m all for a challenge.

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