Never lack topics to blog about again

Monday, May 3rd, 2010 at 7:33 am

What Do I Write About Today?

Is that a question you often ask your self when you sit down to add content to your blog? I used to have quite frequently but here is a way to overcome that problem.

For me it starts with setting up Google Reader for each of the topics I blog on. Go to Google News and search for the primary keywords on your topic. Grab the RSS feed for that search and add it to your reader.

[hidepost]You can find the rss feed after you made your search in Google News scroll to the bottom of the page and click the RSS icon.

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Copy and paste the url from the browser into your Google Reader. To do that open Google Reader and click the add subscription button in the upper left hand corner.

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This will open a box where you can add that feed in then click the add button.

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Now you have a place where you can get the latest news on your topics in one place. As you find quality blogs in your niche add their feed in there too.

Now I get up in the morning open up Free Mind (a free mind map software) and then my reader. Go through and see what has been added new and in 20 minutes or less I can catch up on what is going on in my topic. This is a great way to become more expert on any topic too.

This always generates ideas for topics so I add them into the mind map as I get them. Now you could use a note book or whatever other item you prefer but I like the mind map because I can easily rearrange things and tie things together,

It also happens to be the way I outline things so it is just comfortable for me.

Now as I teach in Twitter Time Saver you can link your reader to Friend Feed and Twitter to share things while I go through catching up which allows me to add more quality content while I am coming up with ideas.

Using content in multiple ways like this allows me to leverage the time I spend on research in many ways.

Try doing this regularly and you will soon find that there are more ideas on what to write on then there is time to write them all.