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Re: Coming up With Blog Topics, How do You do it?

Free Footy — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:03:45 -0000

Well for making my Blog topics headlines usually I go and search the news for what's interesting out there and normally something will pop out in my mind to make me blogging about.I recommend http://newsnow.co.uk for latest news

Re: Coming up With Blog Topics, How do You do it?

jacobmorgan — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:11:40 -0000

hi julie,

it's definitely important to look at the bigger picture just to get a solid idea of what's going on, not just within your community but with those talking about you that are outside of your community.

i like the analogy with the story title, makes perfect sense.

thanks for reading and commenting!

Re: Coming up With Blog Topics, How do You do it?

Julie K — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:58:34 -0000

Since my blog is more of a diary of what we've got up to then that fuels the posts. However I do try and stop and look at the wider implications of what I've done or muse on it in some way so sometimes there will be more than one look at an event

Sometimes like Kim a post will be based on something someone said which sort of acts as a title on which to base a post. That serves as a good challenge like being given the story title and having to come up with the rest

Julie

Re: Coming up With Blog Topics, How do You do it?

jacobmorgan — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:56:52 -0000

hey kim!

wow 70 drafts!? that's definitely more then i have (which is 0). i do have a little whiteboard where i write down ideas though, im the same way, i always get new things popping into my head, but of course i also do get topics from personal experience as well.

you're much more organized than i am :)

thanks for stopping by again kim!

Re: Coming up With Blog Topics, How do You do it?

Kim Woodbridge — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:43:33 -0000

I used to post on a lot of different topics but it seems to have focused on WordPress, a little bit of Twitter and the odd article with personal information (my readers seem to like the personal stuff). So, my article ideas usually come from things I've been trying out on my test site or from questions that people ask me.

Other ideas pop into my head all the time - I just have to be sure to write them down immediately or I won't remember them. I have over 70 drafts right now containing various things that I might want to write about. Even if I don't write them all on the weekend, I usually plan out what I'm posting that week in advance.

Re: Coming up With Blog Topics, How do You do it?

jacobmorgan — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:10:36 -0000

haha ya, i find that 30 is a good amount for me, plus i read other news sources and look at several alltop.com categories.

i really only subscribe to feeds that i actually read. i dont need to spend 5 hours reading feeds.

150 feeds is a lot :) apparently steve rubel has 600 which i think is a bit much, then your job becomes a "feed reader."

thanks for the comment!

Re: Coming up With Blog Topics, How do You do it?

Ari Herzog — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:57:55 -0000

You ONLY subscribe to 30 RSS feeds?!? I have about five times as many...and counting! But I use different categories that I check on daily or weekly frequencies.