I’ve often read how important it is to plan ahead. In a blog, I guess that means ‘work out what you want to say, ahead of time’. Which is good enough in theory, but when it comes to putting it into practice, sometimes that’s when things go awry. So I’ve decided to not just work out what I want to say, but when. And by this, I mean scheduling.
Schedule, using the right tools for you
Scheduling – the planning of a certain event to happen at a certain time – is helped enormously by the huge variety of online tools that others have made, that we can use. We are no longer restricted to a pen and diary-with-pages (remember them? I actually still use one – do you?!), or even a computerized version of diary / calendar. Since the explosion of Web 2.0 we now have tools that schedule or day for us (or around us, as the case may be!) and all it takes is a little bit of planning. I discovered, last weekend, the website www.ifttt.com and I think that this might quickly become a big part of my ‘organizational’ life, as it were. I also am enjoying playing with, understanding, and using HootSuite to schedule tweets from the variety of twitter accounts I oversee. So now it’s just blogging that I need to schedule.
As you can probably tell (you’re reading it!) I use WordPress to blog. A huge thanks to @katiedatwork for introducing us, in the INN333 course, Sem 2 2010. And although I haven’t played much with the ‘scheduling’ section of WordPress, I will be. That way, I’ll be forced to keep ahead with my writing, which is always a good thing. Write ahead of time, edit, make it what you want, then determine when it is you want that post to be published. Easy! And one less thing to worry about. Again, less worrying – always a good thing!
So, that’s what I’ll be doing. Scheduling. What I haven’t done in the past, which is why last Friday’s post only happened Saturday morning. How about you? Do you schedule? If so, what tools do you use? If not, why not? (And what’s your favourite colour!)
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