John Behan – Web Consultant

Blogging for the New Year Part 2 – What to blog about?

This leads on from the previous article about why to blog. Once we’ve answered that question we next need to figure out what to blog about.

It’s very important to define this before you start writing your blog.

Knowing exactly what you’re going to blog about it an important part of starting a blog. You might say, “I know exactly what I want to blog about – Film!”. But that’s not enough. Film is a very broad topic. You need to really narrow down the area within Film that you want to blog about.

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Blogging for the New Year Part 1 – Why Blog?

New year’s resolutions are all well and good in the afterglow of the silly season but despite our best efforts these major life changes are rarely followed through on.

I’m as guilty as the next person when it comes to making unrealistic promises to myself. Guilt. How familiar is that guilty feeling when you see the unused gym bag gathering dust in the corner or have just one more biscuit with your mid-morning cup of tea?

Enough pessimism! After all it’s a new year, possibilities are limitless!

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Happy New Year 2010

Happy New Year to all my readers for 2010.

I hope 2009 was good to you and 2010 will be as good and hopefully better.

One of my resolution’s for 2010 is to blog regularly, at least once a week. We’ll see how I get on.

Last year I resolved to get fit, I don’t know how I got on with that, but I’m definitely fitter now than 12 months ago. Daily sessions in the gym and a cutback in beer has seen me lose almost 3 stone. Now how do I turn the effort I put in at becoming a “gym monkey” into becoming a regular blogger?

Over the next week I want to look at – “Getting Started with Blogging”.

I say “Getting Started” because, even though I actually started this blog some time ago, I don’t feel as if I ever really started blogging properly. That is to say I don’t blog regularly. But that’s all about to change.

Over the course of this series of articles I’m going to look at -

1. Reasons for Blogging
2. What to Blog
3. When to Blog
4. Measuring Success

The new year is three days old already – time for some action!