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Thanks for sharing these tips, I dully agree that not having a content calendar is the quickest route to not blogging at all.
Also, Google alerts and Stumbling things are a good way to keep information flowing so you have a bank of stuff to reference when it comes time to blog and you're stuck for ideas.
Hi Carol,
I think it touches on the most important stumbling block for non-professional writers:
the brainstorming phase.
It's important to give a ton of thought to developing topics. I find the best thing is to
read, read, read. Logging on to Google Reader once a day and subscribing to relevant blogs keeps the creative juices flowing and keeps me up to date on what could be interesting to similarly minded peeps.
It's not intimidating to come up with blog topics when you've got 1000 topics swirling around your mind!
There is a program for professional bloggers and companies with several bloggers on hand to coordinate and schedule posts plus grades the content for SEO. This amazing program has this flexible editorial calendar that prevents blogs from going stale (no content) and aids in the prevention of writers block (provides topics that the business would like the bloggers to discuss). The product is called InnoBlogs - http://www.innoblogs.com/
These are some great tips. Although setting up monthly goals doesn't work well for me personally, I really like the idea of looking at a list of keywords to target. Getting everyone on board for business blogging is very difficult due to other tasks, but is extremely important. Thanks for the tips!
Thanks for the mention Carol. I would also add that creative ideas usually arrive when you're not trying - like when you're in the shower or asleep. Jot down a few ideas when you're dry and/or awake and keep a "punch list" of blog ideas handy.
Divide and Content
split up the responsibility, make it something others want to be part of, gather, sort, edit, post
This is a great post. It definitely helps people blog better. Personally, All I do is go under blogs on google..and type in the keywords..bam there you go inspiration and ideas. It Helps to understand whats popular. Most blogs all post about the same thing on the same day..because its newsworthy! Anyway great ideas keep it up
I agree that committing to a monthly schedule works well, it definitely keeps me on track. During the past month we added two additional bloggers to our blog, I found this really helped keep things on track - as a group we are able to help get one another unstuck and hold each other accountable to the previously agreed deadlines.
There are many tools to generate blog ideas, I usually use these 7 effectively tools: linkedin answers,google search,google keyword tool,google reader,social bookmarketing sites,google alerts and daily note. Hope it helps.
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The info. you give about blogging helps maintain it's quality.
I am learning new things every day. IT is very important to provide useful information.
I especially agree with the "re-blogging" idea. I've ran a printing and marketing company for 20+ years and will take a relevent part of an article, reword it from my perspective and add stories or examples from my own experience that illustrate how to do (or NOT to do, lol) the topic.
I also like to jot down blog ideas when I am in a seminar or going through any training.