Cant find the time to blog? Here are some tips
Date Published: June 29th, 2006
Every time I get into a social environment with my peers or other professionals most know that I blog, it’s not exactly a secret. And inevitably I get the following question:
‘Roger, how do you find the time to post so often (I personally don’t think I post that often but…)?’
I think it isn’t that easy of a question to answer because it all depends on perspective (most things do right?). When I re-committed to blogging again a few months back it was a bit of a slow start getting back into a routine, and recalling some tricks that make multi-post days easier to accomplish.
Here are some of my practical tricks - this is no complete list but it should help you get started.
- Make notes as soon as you have an idea
- Don’t be shy about pulling your phone/notepad/pda out and excusing yourself from a situation while you jot down an idea, inspiration doesn’t always strike twice.
- I use my mobile and write a text and just save in my drafts, I put in just enough information to draw up the inspiration again
- Transfer your draft ideas into your blog platform and save them into drafts, that way you review them every time you login to your blog. Some ideas will age and thats just life but some could be useful to complete in a month. Who is to know?
- Not all posts need to be over X number of words or eloquent to be of value to your readers. They already like what you are saying so let them decide to read or not to read.
- Other bloggers posts, you never know when you will find something that you really are passionate about either for, against, or you have significant value to add to the conversation beyond just a comment.
- When having a conversation with someone think, ‘would this be a good post’ or even a podcast?
Probably the next 5 posts on this site will be the results of the above tips including this one. I hope this helps and if you have any suggestions please feel free to add them in comment.
Updated (12/04/2007)
Related Links:
- William Hertling recently wrote a great post that covers even more tips, that adds to what I said above. He discusses such topics as substituting blog posts for other kinds of writing like email, repurposing work from other projects and even goal setting.
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