Idiot's Guide to Blogging

Need a Blog Post Idea? Check Out Twitter!

This post was submitted by Dan Keller of Tycoon Blogger.

I just read an amazing article that stated that social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook are now more popular than email.  I am not going to write about why Twitter is great or how Twitter can increase traffic to your blog, those topics are getting kind of stale.  I want to share with you a couple of ways that I have been using Twitter to help me create content for my blog, while engaging my followers and blog readers at the same time.  No, this isn’t a review for the new “Fresh from Friendfeed” plug-in, as I am very against automated blogs.  This is a way to use real relationships with real people to create real content.

Forget About Perfection

A common mistake new bloggers (and many experienced ones as well) make is spending too much time trying to write "the perfect post".

As writers, we should definitely aspire to craft that perfect post, one that is incredibly useful or entertaining, worded correctly, and with no flaws. But we can't expect to do this every time; we'd be burnt out in a matter of weeks, maybe months. And think about all that time spent obsessing over every last detail- several hours a week that we could have spent doing something else if we'd managed our time more efficiently.

Help! I've run out of things to write about!

I hear about this a lot- bloggers who have run out of ideas.

I can sympathize with you. A case of writer's block is frustrating, and often discouraging. But it can be overcome if you know where to find inspiration.

For those of you who have asked me for ideas (and of course, for those who haven't), here is a list that may help you out: