Post on 25-Dec-2014
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Blogging Group Therapy:
Lessons from 90 Days as a Blogging Addict
Jess Williamson | @jessinblue | jess@springboard.com
Harvest Festival, Moscow, 18th September 2011
Blog addict, huh?
http://springboard.com
Therapy goals
Barriers & fears?
Motivation: Why bother?
Regularity
Discipline
Personal Discipline
Types of Content
ONE focus or theme
Don't try to capture everything
Start with a 5 minute sketch
Beginning and end SO helpful
Develop a personal style
Use place-holders for mental blocks
Title shapes everything
Picture sets the mood
Photos in the post
Quirky is ok!
Guest bloggers (but hardly a rest)
Generating Buzz
Handy tools
flickrslidr
twitterfeed
bit.ly/infoarticle
mailchimp
Google apps – email posts
wordpress
Back to the barriers list
Questions / advice / stories?
Thank you! And happy blogging :-)
Jess Williamson | @jessinblue | jess@springboard.com
www.springboard.com