Blogging Idea

I used to have difficulty to have idea for my blog. Until recently, I have came out with some rules for myself to make sure I have things to write on my blogs.

Write down your idea in a list

Every time you have though of an idea make sure you write it down some where. You may not be in front of your computer all the time. Write down the idea, a brief one or a short title will do, this is to make sure you won’t forgot the idea that come across your mine. I always write down my idea in my Nokia mobile phone’s TODO list and it is sorted by date added. Whenever I have time to sit in front of my computer, I will "de-queue" an idea from the idea list in my mobile phone and start blogging.

Blog something new

Whenever I see something new and it is related to my blogging theme, I will save it as an idea in my idea list. When I travel around other country and I learn something new (by visiting, reading local newspaper or magazine) and it will become my blogging idea. So mobile phone is a good tools to keep tracks all my ideas.

Blog something you want to do but do not know how to do

I’m an IT person and always need to learn new or even old thing that I have never learn. For example, I want to setup a multi domain in my local PC for web sites testing purpose. I search around the Internet and ask friends and I learnt how to make it work. I will put this problem and solution into my idea list because I think other people might have the same problem with me and it is worth sharing.

Blog something you have created for yourself

I always modify my web sites to make them look better, faster and more optimize for advertisement purpose. When it is something worth sharing, I will put it into my idea queue as well. For instance recently I have posted an article about putting Google Search Result into WordPress with some programming and some one might find it useful.

Blog something you want to share

When I found something useful for myself (either for individual or working purpose), I will put it into my idea list as well. For example recently I was traveling to oversea and have difficulty connect to Internet and I need to blog what I have done and save it to somewhere. Without Internet connection, I cannot login into my blog and draft my log. Until recently, I found a software that allow you to blog offline. The software is intelligence enough to create an environment that similar to your blog and you can draft your article offline, save it to your hard disk and preview the article as like in your web site (well, I will introduce this software when comes to its turn, it is still far behind the queue in my idea list).

For me, blogging is like sharing idea. Besides you can keep a record what you have learn, you can also help other people that need the related information. So, happy blogging!