There are going to be plenty of times where you simply do not have the ability to post. Life can sometimes just get in the way.
For the last few days my attention has been definitely elsewhere but I’ve saved a number of posts for just this type of occassion and have been able to pre-publish and queue up posts to fire without needing to be right there in front of a computer.
I’ve already written this post here about “How Blogs Stay Alive” and the necessity of having a few posts ready to go-live in case you can’t blog that day. That post, however, was covering planned circumstances and travel away from the keyboard while this post is about the “unplanned.”
I think most people would just have stopped altogether, put their blog on “pause” and let it ride. I thought about it, but I had posts ready to go and I made a choice to keep it going.
Whatever your motivation, it can be a valuable strategy to have “timeless” posts ready to go, just in case you can’t be there, whatever the circumstance.
Faye says
WHOA! Totally cool idea! Thanks! (Now I'm wondering why I, the consummate planner, didn't think about this before?)
Josh Wagner says
Always good to see the planning for a blog. When I started blogging (ok, in January) I kinda thought you'd just blog whatever you were feeling that day. I'm learning that it should be something planned, groomed, and learned. Gee, seems like most things in life work better if you plan. Hmm…
Ancoti says
What I find amazing is that those times when I will be unable to blog for a few days, the Lord always gives me enough to put some up in advance. If you plan and pray, He will provide what you need to keep a consistent posting schedule (whatever that means in your particular circumstances) that your readers have come to expect.
Phillip Gibb says
I guess one idea is to write down a number of ideas for a post and slowly but surely flesh them out to the point of being ready to publish for these auto pilot occasions.
Graham Brenna says
probably a good plan for any blog post.
Brian Alexander says
One thing that helps me is if I hear something interesting, read something interesting..I'll write it down. That way when I get back to my computer I can begin to plan scheduled posts. I haven't done it a whole lot, but I do plan on using schedule posts more often for my blog. If you haven't checked it out i'd encourage you too. it's http://bfalexander.com. The blog talks about God, Life, and Media and you'll love it I'm sure!
Graham Brenna says
the way my blog goes right now… I'm excited if an idea pops into my head that I deem "blog worthy". So when I've had a chance to flush it out… I'm usually too excited to publish it that I don't want to keep it on the back burner. I definitely see the pros to this… I just don't have that many ideas all at once… yet…
Mikes says
Very good info for wordpress bloggers. i'm using blogspot and i just found out that i can also do scheduling of posts. i tried it out but i got confused. do you know which timezone is blogger using? I'm from the philippines, it didn't post at the time i was expecting it to post. i needed to post it manually. LOL!
Jim says
i'm on a schedule and then i'm building up posts for future usage. i even set my goo calendar in syc w/bbstorm to remind me.