In continuing with my Tuesday Homework assignments I want you to write 10 posts right now.
Actually I only want you to write 10 blog titles right now.
One of the hardest parts of keeping a blog going is having good posts when you hit a wall. A great way to overcome that is to always have a few posts that are done or almost done.
I do this by having several posts in various states of being done. To illustrate, here’s my current working list of titles for my multiple blogs. Some are no more than titles some are almost done.
MBA, the Enterprise and Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
Entrepreneurs in the Enterprise
Top 10 Tips for Managing Corporate Web 2.0 Initiatives
CPM is the Root of all Evil
Design is a Commodity
Monitoring your brand via social media [how to]
The WaterCooler opens, now what
Don Dietrich: The door’s open
Technology Adoption and Advertising
The Bell Curve of Bloggers
Now some of these I’ve been working on for several months and some of these may never see the light of the Web. By constantly working on something it keeps the ideas flowing and helps me to have (semi) regular content on my blogs.
So your homework is to stop whatever you’re doing and quickly write down 10 blog titles that you can start working on. They don’t have to be great, they don’t have to be word smithed yet but shoot for 10. Go!
Done? God job. What tips do you have to keep fresh content on your blog?
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Tac,
This is a good exercise. I have 7-10 unfinished blog posts going at all times. One thing that I have done in the past is to tag articles that spark my interest as “potential blog post” on del.icio.us (notronwest) - this helps me keep my ideas flowing while I work on my angle.
Tagging is a great idea. I star items in Google Reader for the exact same reason.
I always write the title last. Instead, I keep a log of ideas and short thoughts. Some of these end up as Tweets. If I refer back to my list of ideas and am still inspired, then they become blog posts. I typically have a running flow of 15 - 20 thoughts. Based on a tip from you, I use LiveWriter to start a blog post - usually 3 - 4 in the works at any given time.
Idea, thought, title, whatever works. The point was just to keep multiple ideas rolling. The problem I see is people sit down cold after not posting anything for several days and struggle to come up with anything.