Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Fine Tune the Process
What is a Blog Day Planner?
The Blog Day Planner is a tool to help plan and focus the different aspects of blog development. As a functional blog it is a teaching tool both for the creator and the reader. Day Planners are used for all sorts of record keeping and time management, from personal to business. This Blog Day Planner is an elctronic live version of a day planner for a blog. It is functional and interactive. The Blog Day Planner serves as an actual blog that records and monitors the progress of blog development and maintenance.
One of the main objectives is to utilize this tool to focus on building and maintaining blogs. This method provides a storehouse of all your lists, ideas, memos, outlines, suggested topics with topic notes, brainstorming, to do sheets, follow up...virtually anything and everything related to a blogging project.
However, if you are a professional blogger/freelance writer, you may have more than one blog. This is an even greater incentive for such an organized tool, especially when writing and "blog keeping" becomes an every day event. A one stop Blog Day Planner follows the motto that I created for this project: "Keep It Simple".
Minimize the List!
Having too much on an action list is often a hindrance. Learn to scale down the "to do" lists for daily tasks, projects and writing assignments, especially if you are a full-time freelance writer or blogger. Practice the art of prioritizing the action list to keep it simple. Brainstorming sheets are the place on which to write those 101 ideas that just seem to flow from an infinite place of creativity.
Tips to minimize the list :
1. Create a posting order.
Determine which blogs need a post today, tomorrow, in two or three days, or next week. This will depend on the frequency of your posting per blog.
Note: A good average frequency to post on any blog is twice per week.
2. List the blogs in draft according to their posting order.
List the blogs in your written ledger, then key them into the Blog Day Planner that you have created. Use draft form in the blogging tools, then save but do not publish until you have refined your post...if you are sharing it publicly as a teaching tool or progress report with your blog followers. Once the draft has gone through the final editing stage, it can go live with all the bells and whistles added.
Numerous posts can be future dated to create a synchronized list with a sense of timing order for each blog. After a while of using this technique, it will be automatic to know which blogs need posts on which days. Scheduling in draft will become faster and smoother with experience.
3. Determine Editing Tasks.
4. Outline Research Needs.
5. List Sources for Research.
6. Place a Master List of Blog Urls on the Sidebar of the Blog Day Planner.
This will ensure that every page will display the links to your blogs both for reference while working and to the advantage of your blog readers. Now you have an interactive blog serving both creator and user. While developing and maintaining your blogs, urls are ready to use whenever pasting a link is needed or a log in for posting needs done. Handy Dandy!
7. Select key words for the day.
Perform a search on three to four top search engines for the top key words for the day. Choose ten to twenty out of the first 100. Use this list as a writing guideline for the week. It serves to polish the posts while helping to hone in on those key words. Be sure they are relevant to your content and to your niche blog, if you are using one.
8. Choose a list of tags to use for the day or the week.
9. List categories to help fine tune your topic list.
10. Brainstorm outlines for blog posts before writing.
Keeping It All Together!
The Midnight Writer
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