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How to Capture Creative Ideas On the Go

George — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:05:45 +0000

How do you capture your creative ideas? Do you use a notebook or some other type of device?

I own many notebooks and am always jotting down notes and ideas for my writing. The other day, I was out and didn’t have my notebook or voice recorder with me. I thought of another way to capture my creative ideas. Below is a quick video I made to explain this quick idea.

How to Capture Creative Ideas On the Go

Managing Time for Blogging

George — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:17:07 +0000

Time Management.

We use it in our lives for business, daily life and other areas. What about blogging?

To succeed in time management for blogging, you need to follow strategies to increase your management of time and increase your productivity.

I just wrote a post over on Bloggingtips.com about Time Management for Blogging.

Check it out at:

Time Management for Blogging

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How to Save Time Writing Your Blog Posts

How to Share a Great Blog Post

George — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:00:21 +0000

You have a blog. You post updates to it on a regular basis. With all this content on your blog, what good is it if no one sees it?

Blogging takes more then just writing good posts; to promote your blog posts, you have different options to help get the word out.

Over on Mashable, Ben Parr writes on some great ways to promote your blog posts.

You can find the article here:

Top 20 Ways to Share a Great Blog Post

Nowadays, it takes much more then just posting a post to have it read. Promoting your blog posts is just as important as writing that eye catching post on your blog.

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How to Undo In Gmail

George — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:00:19 +0000

We know there are a lot of people out there that use Gmail for their email. Without it, some of us would probably go through email withdrawals.

With everything you can do with Gmail these days, wouldn’t it be cool to have a option to undo that email you just sent out? Well, that time has finally arrived.

The other day I was looking through the Gmail Labs and found a new feature called: Undo Send. With this option turned on, you can now take back an email you have sent from your Gmail account.

When this option is enabled, you are able to undo a sent email. After you click on send, you will get a confirmation message that it has been sent, along with a link to undo. The message will display for five seconds to “undo”. After five seconds, you will not have the opportunity to undo send the message.

So, if you are fast on the click, you will be able to undo messages with mistakes you would rather not come to light. For those that forget to attach files, add cc to someone or have a issue with spelling, this would be a good thing to have enabled on your account.

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How to Save Time Writing Your Blog Posts

George — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:52:28 +0000

Time. We all need more of it in some fashion or another. This is true in blogging and writing as well.

What if I could tell you a simple technique to get back more time in your blogging? There is a technique that I like to use and I know of others that use it too.

This technique is: grouping your blog posts.

What Is It?

Most bloggers will write a blog post day in and day out. They write their posts one at a time.

With blog post grouping, you will write a group or batch of posts all at once. After you have written those posts in advance, you will have more then one post completed, you have more time for other tasks when it is time post another post.

Put It All Together.

Now there are different ways to use this technique, but all of them come down to saving time on your post writing.

I like to take a certain day and sit down to write out my blog posts for those next 5 posts. Having a particular day and/or time is another good addition to using this technique.

Some other ideas you can combine with writing out your groups of blog posts are:

With WordPress, you can schedule out each post to automatically publish on a given day and time.
Adding an editorial calendar, you can set what types of posts and when you want to post them. Adding these into a calendar and scheduling them will add to grouping your blog posts.

If you are caught up in the mess and chaos of arranging your blog, social networking, writing along with life’s responsibilities, you can use group blog posting to save yourself some time for other responsibilities.

This is one of multiple posts that I will be putting together on time management tips for blogging and writing. I know things can get very chaotic or unorganized at times and managing your time is an important skill we should all learn for writing, blogging and in life as well.

Have something to say? Let me know what you think.

Need Help With Ideas for a Headline?

George — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:51:38 +0000

From time to time, we all get a little off track and need assistance coming up with that next headline idea. I know I have been there and am sure I will be there again in the future. One of the great things I have found to combat this is to have a good swipe file.

So, you ask, what is a swipe file? A swipe file is a file of clippings from other writings. It can be magazine and newspaper articles clipped out or electronic files of web site and other electronic writings. I personally have a folder of magazine and newspaper clippings as well as an electronic version on my computer.

Whether you are writing a press release, article, copy or blog posts, you at one time have come up with interesting and engaging titles. Not everyone can do this on a consistent basis on their own and that’s where a swipe file comes into play. When you come to a sticking point in your next writing, open up your swipe file for some inspiration.

Having a physical or electronic swipe file doesn’t matter as long as you have one ready for you to activate. As I said before, I have both a file folder of clippings and an electronic version on my computer. You never know when that magazine your reading or web site you’re looking at or even that piece of direct mail could give you that next idea for your writing.

For a good swipe file, there is no maximum of clippings you should have. The more, the merrier I would say. I have always believed that you can never have too many good ideas. I like to keep at least five to ten clippings in my swipe file on a regular basis. I have seen some writers have as much as a thousand clippings in their swipe file.

I know there has been many a time that my swipe file has saved me time and effort in deciding on what to write on. I would say that if you don’t have a swipe file, go right now and start one up! It is never too late to gather good clippings and writings for your swipe file. There are words all around us and some should be saved more then others.

So, open up that swipe file the next time you need some inspiration and it will save you as it has saved me many a times.

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Top 10 Social Sites For Finding Jobs

George — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:11:36 +0000

Today’s world is full of uncertainty. One major uncertainty now is being employed.

For those that are unfortunately in this position, there are different avenues.

I just ran across an article that shows some social sites to look at for jobs and possibly freelance opportunities.

Over on Mashable, Dan Schawbel, wrote a great post on some social sites for finding jobs:

Top 10 Social Sites For Finding a Job

Some of these sites I am aware of, some I am not.

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Marketing For Bloggers

George — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:00:38 +0000

In blogging, there are many things that have to be considered when building your blog and online business. One of the things that most bloggers don’t have as much experience with is marketing. Internet Marketing is a very important factor in the success of any blog.

Over on John Chow dot Com, David Risley, wrote a great post on marketing for bloggers:

Most Bloggers Suck At Marketing

Information for marketing for bloggers and some useful information..

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Quick Tip – 5 Twitter Plugins for WordPress

George — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:11:56 +0000

Do you use WordPress for your blog? Do you use Twitter?

If you answered yes to both of these questions, then you can integrate Twitter into your WordPress blog.

Here are some plugins you can add to your blog for Twitter:

1. TwitMe

This plugin will allow you to post your latest blog posts onto the Twitter web site.

2. TweetSuite

Dan Zarrella has created TweetSuite. It is a suite of Twitter functionality that fits into a WordPress plugin.

3. Twitter Updater

This plugin will allow you to post your latest created, published or updated blog post to Twitter with custom text.

4. Twitter Counter

For those that want to show your follow rate. This will put a badge on your blog to show how many Twitter followers you have.

5. TwitterDash

This is a plugin that will add Twitter to your WordPress dashboard.

If you have other plugins that you feel are helpful for Twitter integration with WordPress blogs, please comment with them so that everyone will benefit with this information.

Win a Flip Mino HD!

George — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:41:51 +0000

Ryan McLean from Smarter Wealth is giving away a brand new Flip Mino HD to one lucky reader. This is a great giveaway on a great device!

The Flip Mino HD is the coolest gadget around. You can shoot one hour of video in HD (so you can play it on your plasma) and you can even edit your footage right on your device. This device is so small that it will fit in your pocket so you will never miss capturing a moment ever again.

To enter all you have to do is sign up for Ryan’s newsletter and post about the competition.

Check out all the details of how you can enter the Win a Flip Mino HD competition now.

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