great advice – as I write reviews like Shane and yes straight after event is best. My tip is that I always keep to a 100 word limit if I cannot say something briefing taking up more words will not help. Its not meant to be serious just to keep up with the tools.

My challenge is to take a picture on an Iphone of an exhibition to put on my blog without getting caught. Perhaps I should ask for a press pass?

Cheers
Nick

The more I think about writing the ‘blog’ the more anxious I get, so for example if I write a blog about a film I need to do it quickly when I know exactly what my raw reaction is to the film. Time is a killer of straight this is what I think opinion.

I find myself ‘thinking’ all the time, even when drifting into sleep (I do occassionally) and when waking. I remember a former Director telling me he always kept a notebook at the side of the bed – noting down the thoughts keeping him awake, helped him to eventually get to sleep. I wouldn’t advocate that (paper?) but you could use your iPhone or PDA (as long as the back light doesn’t disturb your loved one)!

I do keep notes of ideas and one liners but to be honest, often struggle to find the time to work them up into fully fledged posts. Envious of my online firends who are more efficient and productive than I.

Agree we should be prepared to publish less than perfect posts though. We should all be accepting of that and be prepared to join in and offer our thoughts and considered opinions (constructively)! Surely that’s what this is all about?

I like the idea of user generated online content being ‘raw’ and real time. That’s often what makes it so engaging and, of itself, thought provoking. I’d take that over fully polished, verbose and out of date content anytime!

I also have what I call the 48 hour rule. If a post hangs around as a draft for more than 48 hours, it will almost certainly never see the light of day because I’ll have forgotten the point I was trying to make. Often if I’m not sure a post is 100% I’ll schedule it for future publication giving me another day or two to polish it off if I have time or think of something else to so, otherwise it goes live as it is.

Sometimes I’ll plan out a series of posts rather than trying to cram everything into a single one and this can be quite effective for keeping the points you’re trying to make simple as well as giving you a steadier flow of posts. Martin Belam does this very effectively.

Your post about UKgov blogging is interesting as well – I’ve been thinking for a while about HigherEd web blogging and it still hasn’t improved significantly.

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