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If you’re new to blogging, or you’ve been blogging for awhile but sometimes find yourself struggling for something to write about,\u00a0here are nine\u00a0ideas to get you writing quickly:<\/p>\nIf you’re new to blogging, or you’ve been blogging for awhile but sometimes find yourself struggling for something to write about,\u00a0here are nine\u00a0ideas to get you writing quickly:<\/p>\n
1. Take a poll.<\/strong>\u00a0 Using a free tool like Survey Monkey<\/a>, you can poll your readers on a fun, controversial or hot topic.\u00a0 You will, of course, write another blog post sharing results of the poll.\u00a0For blog polls, the quickest and easiest thing to do is use a widget.\u00a0 You can get one at PollDaddy.com<\/a>\u00a0(they have a WordPress plugin) or you can use the WordPress survey plugin to put a poll inside a blog post.<\/p>\n 2. Use Google Alerts.<\/strong>\u00a0 Create alerts for your topics at Google.com\/alerts<\/a>. Google will email you as often as you wish with great content that ties into your topic.<\/p>\n 3. Create Top 10 lists.<\/strong>\u00a0 Letterman made these famous.\u00a0 Readers love them!<\/p>\n 4. Create a video.<\/strong>\u00a0 Video is hot, hot, hot and it will pull traffic like crazy. Here’s one I created on\u00a0how to get your consumer product into holiday gift sections.\u00a0If you’re intimidated by video, let Mike Stewart help.<\/p>\n 5. Comment on somebody else’s video which you can also post to your blog.<\/strong>\u00a0 You’ll find millions of videos at YouTube<\/a>.\u00a0I blogged about this video <\/a>that\u00a0shows Peggy Noonan, a conservative columnist for the Wall Street Journal, and Mark Murphy, a strategist during John McCain\u2019s 2000 campaign for president, who were caught criticizing McCain\u2019s choice of Sarah Palin for vice president.\u00a0 It happened during a panel discussion on the set of MSNBC, where Murphy is a commenator.<\/p>\n 6. Report on interesting conversatons on Twitter.<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/a> I frequently blog about discussions I have with my Twitter followers, how we help each other, and how Twitter is a fabulous tool for publicity, if you use it correctly.\u00a0 I use screenshots, too, to dress up the blog post. (Caution: Don’t let Twitter and Facebook steal you away from your blog<\/a>.)<\/p>\n 7. Find content at\u00a0<\/strong>Digg.com.<\/strong><\/a> Use the search box at this social bookmarking\u00a0site\u00a0to find interesting content on a specific topic. You can guage the popularity of the topic by how many Diggs it has received.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n 8. Share humorous content.<\/strong>\u00a0 Funny photos, jokes and videos—particularly those that ties into your topic—are a nice break from the serious stuff.<\/p>\n 9. Recycle content from other sources.<\/strong>\u00a0 If you’re a speaker, extract content from your handouts.\u00a0 If you’re an author, excerpt from your book.\u00a0 I frequently cut and paste helpful comments I post to other blogs, like the comment you’re reading, and turn it into a post at this blog. I wrote seven of these nine\u00a0tips this morning\u00a0for\u00a0the Blogging Made Easy<\/a>\u00a0post I read at the Salon.com <\/a>blog.\u00a0(It’s the second comment.)<\/p>\n How do you find interesting content for your blog?<\/p>\n (Shutterstock photo)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you’re new to blogging, or you’ve been blogging for awhile but sometimes find yourself struggling for something to write about,\u00a0here are nine\u00a0ideas to get you writing quickly: 1. 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