Friday, October 16, 2009

Blog Posting Ideas

As you have time throughout the course of the NetTrek program, you may want to contribute more to your blog. Great posts are hard to do consistently on a day-to-day basis. Probloggers really have to work at it. Here are 27 different ideas that I think are great to stimulate your mind and jumpstart your blogging. (taken from http://www.ihelpyoublog.com/). If you think of additional topics, please include them below in the comment field.

1. Brainstorm by matching up your readers wants and needs using the Visitor Grid method of brainstorming.


2. Write a tutorial.


3. Write about your favorite book titles or genres.

4. Do an interview with key people in your niche.


5. Create a series of booktalks or book reviews for new titles.


6. Do a post that answers your readers’ questions.


7. Create a comprehensive list.


8. Invite your readers to submit articles.


9. Instead of exchanging links, get together with other bloggers and review each others’ blogs.


10. Invite a guest blogger and share ideas with new readers.


11. Answer your readers’ questions with more questions (i.e., have you thought about…?).


12. Make a post that solves a problem.


13. Make a post that is inspirational.


14. Write a series of posts.
 

15. Post your research findings.

16. Update an old post for new ideas/findings.


17. Debunk a myth in your post.


18. Create a mission statement for your blog.


19. Make a post simplifying a complex problem for your readers.


20. Write a post like you are telling a story.


21. Spruce up your posts with pictures.


22. Post about frequently asked questions.


23. Make a [blank] for dummies post.


24. Check out a how-to book from a bookstore and use some of the ideas from that book to generate ideas.


25. Create a post that has a cliff hanger to be answered in a later post.

26. Run a poll and post the results of that poll.
 

27. Make a “101 ideas" post. 

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