Blogging about blogging....
Friday, March 6, 2009 at 7:45AM Well into my second week of trying to write a post a day for 30 days and I have to say that the response has been great. Excuse this post as blogging about blogging, but I need to keep it short today - production day don't you know!
A number of the posts seem to have generated a lot of useful discussion and I've been posting a link to my twitter account each time I post. Much as I used to hate this approach, I have a gut feeling that this has generated a lot of traffic to the blog. There is probably some scientific way to gauge how many people come across via Twitter and how many via RSS but perhaps I'll look into it some other day!
The combination of trying to keep on top of emails and write a blog post everyday can be a huge time sink. A couple of the days have seen me working until 11am just on these alone so I'll need to apply a bit more discipline in keeping the blog posts short and to the point.
Just like this one :-)
Reader Comments (5)
It is harder to do many tasks and well than one. You are doing a great job on all of yours. Kudos.
Hi Don,
Regarding working out how popular Twitter is at sending you traffic: if you sign up (for free) for a service like http://tr.im, and use that to create the URL that you post in to Twitter, you can get a hit count on that particular link.
Cheers,
Paul.
Thanks Richard
Paul - Not heard of that - good find!
Don,
I use MarsEdit on my MBA and find it useful to start assembling blog posts offline. I usually spot something or think of a subject while commuting and it's an ideal tool to pick up and put down, and then when your ready to publish.
Thanks for mentioning MarsEdit, Mark. Glad it's working for you!
Don, I have a vested interest in promoting MarsEdit ;) But the overwhelming response I get from people who start using it is they're surprised by how much more they end up blogging.
"Reducing the friction of blogging" is the phrase that seems to sum it up more and more.
Daniel