We’ve covered Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg’s entertaining presentation on blogging and more, SEO for Wordpress, Getting Others to Create Blog Content for You, and Staying Out of Hot Water with the Law so far this week as part of our series on last weekend’s Wordcamp RDU.

Today, we’ll wrap up with some tips on turning your blog into a community and a presentation I missed on Twitter.

Angela Connor, Online Community Manager for WRAL, talked about building a community with your blog–and that means a lot more than providing really useful content (which should be a given!)

• Ask questions of your visitors and even ask for their help. Blogging is meant to be more of a discussion among equals than one wise man (or woman) speaking from the mountain top.
• Also, thank commenters and visit their blogs. Of course, if you get a ton of comments on a post you don’t need to respond to all–but do respond to some so everyone can see you are participating.

Finally, I had to miss Wayne Sutton’s Tweetshop but he’s posted slides and notes from his terrific session on his social media blog.

Speaking of Twitter…like always, attending an event like Wordcamp is a great way to finally meet friends from the Twitter-sphere! Online social networking is even more fun and productive when relationships created online go offline as well.

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