How To Write Blogs

How to write anything

Blogs and the microblogs Twitter are becoming even stronger as a web strategy according to Web Strategist Kirsty Farrelly.

So if your heart is sinking at the thought of more stuff to do, then what’s a good way to manage blogging?  Well I’m still coming to terms with Twitter (if you have any tips that work for you I’d love to hear them) but I think I’ve got blogging itself sussed.

Just like any other activity you have to be organised.  I have a couple of folders set up for my blogs.  One in Outlook and one in Word.  When I see items that would fit for my blog I drop them into the folder then when I come to write the blogs I have them to hand.

What kinds of things? Tips, inspirational quotes, recommended reads, events.

That way you don’t have to generate every word that goes into your blog.  And if you know subject experts in your area that would round out your blog ask them to contribute.

I have a few sessions each month where I blog intensively and schedule items ahead of time.  Then I add to it with items in the news as it happens.

Do you have to tell people what you have for breakfast?  Not if you don’t want to.  This blogging for business is about business.  You have to put yourself in there and come over as who you are, but how much of you is up to you.