Thanks for stopping by, want you to know I’m still reading what you do, even if I don’t comment.

I did a quick search and saw googling “Lexy Klain” brings up your blog, so there’s an argument to be made that you shouldn’t change anything in terms of a personal branding exercise, which your blog can absolutely be (and is doing a great job!).

If the desire is more for conversation with visitors, then there’s some tough decisison to be made. As it is right now I’m looking at turning this site into a self-hosted solution (which means it would be a regular URL as opposed to being on WordPress.com), I’m looking at that because I want to be able to customise the experience more than I can in this environment.

Every platform has its pros and cons as I said. Your content on Vox won’t disappear, a final post could point people to your new location. I thought I saw your blog being pulled into an Ogilvy PR site too, which could be a place to direct people for comments, though if (heaven forbid…) you sought greener pastures one day that would render that solution null and void.

I think it comes back to what your intent is for the site. Keep in mind too Seth Godin doesn’t have any comments on his site, they’re certainly not the be all and end all. The key thing is offering value for visitors and the people subscribing to you, everything else will ultimately take care of itself.

As an aside, I mention Forrester’s POST methodology above, you should check it out as a great framework for thinking about intent BEFORE technology. Your clients will thank you!

Good luck with it!!

Cheers,

David

Anything you suggest? Is there an easy way to transfer to another blog platform without losing any of my archives?

Nice to virtually meet you by the way