 | soloviov  says:Being a blogger and also an RTM pro-user and fan no wonder I found the way to organise my regular tasks related to blog support and improvements. Now I am happy to share these tips with other RTM folks here. Hope you find them useful!
So, let's see what bloggers do on a regular basis:
- post new articles
- add new features to their blog
- consider improving blog design
- keeping eye on blog promotion
Also to mention some people have several blogs, so require to keep things in order and not mess up with stuff.
Now how I addressed each of the above points:
1. I run numerous projects at a time, so I've set up a project-blog task list to keep my blog related tasks together but separate from other todo's.
2. Within this list I've created several "never-ending" tasks which I use as idea containers:
Ideas: Content
Ideas: Design
Ideas: Features
Ideas: Promotion
I put all my ideas into notes using my phone. I can do it any time they come to my mind wherever I am, and then just sync them with online account.
I run weekly reviews of these ideas and if I feel there will be some time during the upcoming week I set up certain tasks within the same list, add due dates and other attributes to put them into the pipeline.
3. I also log ideas about specific articles by creating 1 task per article. Initially I just put some notes in to remind myself about the details of the future post and add an "article" tag to the task - nothing else.
This way there is always a queue of new articles to be written. I don't have to put myself into creative mood when "it's time for blogging", I can be creative whenever inspiration comes.
4. To write and post articles regularly I've set up a recurrent weekly task in the same list. It reminds me about my readers waiting for new cool posts. When it comes up on todo list I simply click "articles" in my tag cloud and get a list of ideas ready to work with.
All of the above helps me a lot in keeping my blog up to date and saves a lot of hassle around capturing and managing cool ideas that come to mind.
Follow these tips and make the best blog ever! Posted at 6:23pm on September 24, 2009 |
