How to Manage, Organize and Structure Your Blogging
Before you start blogging you may have very naive ideas about how cool it would be to be read by the whole world and how fast you can jot down a few lines and post them. How people will come to your blog in swarms to read it and how modern web 2.0 technology makes every task a breeze to get done. If setting up your blog so that it looks half way decent doesn’t rob you of your illusions starting to actually write, post and earn a readership will. Especially you will realize what a role time plays and you will gain a whole new conception thereof. Hence is it my advice to think about the concept of blogging and what it actually takes a little more before you take the plunge and start your own blog. If you already have then this is the opportunity to learn how to do things better and thus become more efficient and effective.
Blogging is no different than other kinds of activity. If approached without a plan you may not only end up spending your entire waking time on it. You may even do so without coming anywhere nearer what you hoped to achieve with it. Realizing where you want to go, what it requires to get there and not least how you are able to do it are the key questions. The following articles will help you with the latter questions as you really are the only one who can answer the first one. Indeed you should already have before you even start thinking about the other two. Otherwise will you limit yourself to becoming more efficient, which although it isn’t bad is insufficient. Instead of being able to run faster circles around yourself should you aim at moving faster in the direction you want to go.
7 Deceptively Hard Blogging Tasks
“As a delightfully faddy sort of thing to be doing, blogging attracts waves and waves of newbies to its folds, all looking to get a blog started and for it to rise to success. Today I reflected on some of the tasks involved in blogging that have turned out to be a lot harder than I had expected.”
How To Find Time To Blog (When It’s Not Your Day Job)
“… for all of you who may be struggling to keep a blog going while doing your day jobs - here are a few tips that I have learned which may help. Blogging can be a time consuming thing …”
Time managing your blogging
“I went through some of the methods that I use in the two main areas that cause problems which are coming up with ideas for the posts and then actually getting down to writing them. Even though my own time management could do with some help just at the moment, I thought that I would share them here as well along with a couple of other methods that I haven’t yet used.”
Seven ways to find the time to blog
“In some ways, I’m the worst person to give advice, because my frequency of posting is terrible compared to any decent blogger. On the other hand, I’m the father of 3 children under the age of 4 (doing attachment parenting no less) and I work full time, so if I can find the time to post, then anyone can.”
Pro Blogging: Managing Your Work Schedule
“Part of the problem in work for yourself is that it’s easy to think you have the whole day to finish work. This is a mistake because your work will expand to fill that void, if you let it. You have to discipline yourself to structure your time - something I struggle with constantly.”
How To Better Structure Your Blogging
“I came across a problem recently concerning my Blogging. It was going downhill and fast, but I was in denial. What was the problem? A lack of organization and focus. I thought it might be useful to tell you how I identified the problem, and more importantly, how I fixed it.”
7 Habits of Highly Efficient Bloggers
“As a blogger, it’s not enough to write great posts and wait for the magic to happen. The successful blogger approaches their task like a diligent student. Like the employee of the month. In this post, I want to outline seven habits of the highly efficient blogger, and most importantly, explain how you can work these habits into your own blogging routine.”
Organizing Tips for Bloggers
“For the regular blogger, especially somehow who manages multiple blogs, keeping everything organized can be quite the challenge. You’ve got to deal with posting schedules, brainstorming and all that other fun stuff that goes along with a presence in the blogosphere. But here are some ideas to keep article ideas straight and hopefully keep that blog up-to-date.”
To be honest am I not a big fan of lists telling me how to do particular things. There are however some things you may need to learn to be successful at what you do and then it would just be plain dumb not to listen to the people who have thought about it. Furthermore do I believe that entering into new ventures is best done with an open mind. Informing yourself before you do something you have never done before will help you deciding if it really is what you want, help you realize if you are prepared to do what it takes and help you to actually do it if you indeed decide to go ahead.
Your enthusiasm and attitude will bring you only so far. You will also need to be realistic about what needs to be done, how to prioritize and how to actually get it done in a manner that you can live with if you want to achieve any kind of success.
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