What if you’re like me, and have to overcome online shyness issues?
Take baby steps.
These specific tips might help too. 
- Strive a little more each day to be a more social blogger.
Set a goal to comment more – pick a number that’s twice the number of comments you make per day and do that much commenting every other day this week.
Talk about other blog posts on your blog and send trackback links.
You don’t have to change your personality and suddenly become the life of the party. Take it slow and just say a few more words a little more often.
- This goes for forums, soical networking sites, and email discussion lists too.
- Start with places you’re already familiar with and comfortable, then add more places.
- Take the focus off what you’re going to say, and think about how much you’re contributing to the discussion.
It’s not as much what you say as it is that you said something that contributes to the discussion somehow, that makes a publisher appreciate your comment.
- Ask a question.
Sometimes you might read a post that’s really great, and you don’t want to just say “great post” because that sounds completely lame, and makes you look like you’re just hoping for link traffic. (Or link juice from a Do Follower.)
- Comment in other ways. If you’re too shy to speak, then share. Take a moment to save the post to delicious and tag it. Share it on Facebook. Make a PlugIM, BUMPzee or Digg entry.
(Click on the Share This Post or Save It To Read Again Later! link for this post to get some more places you can submit articles to that you enjoy.)
Letting more people know about a site is sometimes the best comment you can make.
