Jonathan Davies

This is the third and final part to my series on the blogging platform Vox. If you haven’t read the first two parts of the series, I suggest that you read them, here and here. In this section I will be discussing community and how Vox allows you to communicate with your friends and also make new ones.

Home-page:

I touched on this last time, that the home-page was split into different sections. At the top is an area which shows recent comments by your neighbors and what updates they have made to their blog, a change of theme for instance. Having it at the top is very helpful as it allows you to see instantly what you friends have been up to. Further down you can see posts that your neighbors have made.

[THIS IS GOOD]:

When you make a comment on something on Vox you are able to add the [this is good] tag just to say if you enjoyed it, but you can also add more to the comment, if you want to.

Another part of [this is good] is that you can suggest something to be it. And it can be put up on the home-page for others who might not normally see those sort of things such as pictures.

Recently Added:

This is one of my favorite features of Vox. When you write a new blog post and publish it, you go to a web-page that shows you a few of the other posts that have been published at the same time, I have found several neighbors through this.

Getting you Blogging:

Vox really want you to blog. And quite often I am stuck for an idea and have no idea about what to write, so to help you at least write something Vox has “Question of the Day” (this is where I got my QOTD from) Where you can either submit one or sometimes the guys and gals at Vox do one. For instance at the time of writing, the latest it: What Decision changed the course of your life? Pretty cool eh?

Conclusions:

When I compare the community aspects of Vox to something like, Wordpress.com. I don’t really see anything that wordpress.com has. I would consider it a mash-up of Facebook (for the community aspects) and wordpress.com for the blogging aspect. But Vox does it in it’s own style. Once again I highly recommend Vox to someone who wants to start out Blogging in a community that will welcome you with open arms. I have certainly enjoyed my experiences with it, and I hope that you at least give it a try.

What did you think of this three part series? Has it inspired you to try out Vox? and if so was it successful? Leave a comment or send me an email vis the new contact form. Thanks for reading!

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