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This is just another one of those nosy "what do you do?" blog posts because I really enjoy getting to know garden bloggers and how they tick. So if you have your own garden blog I'm asking the question "What is your garden blogging routine?"
Do you post everyday? Do you take days off? Are you a morning blogger or a night blogger? Have you ever scraped a post together while at work? Do you have a routine or do you just blog when it's convenient?
I can see that there's no point asking the question if I'm not going to share myself. So here goes,
I will often try and use my lunch break at work to comment on other blogs and send emails to those who have contacted me or that I want to make contact with.
Tuesday night is my 'blogging' night. I update the garden blogs directory and try and write a post for each of my other two blogs. By Tuesday night I'm starting to feel like I'm getting it under control again. I love Tuesday nights - so don't bother inviting me out for a Pizza and Beer night on Tuesdays. It won't happen.
This usually results in two more gardening posts and one more post each for my other two blogs. I also try to come up with some ideas for the following week or adjust my routine if I'm going to be away.
So there's my sad little life in a nutshell. What does your blogging routine look like?
Comments
I'm not structured about blogging at all. I do love to catch up on other people's blogs every day. And I try to post several times a week, more if I feel inspired. I check my stats maybe once a week, if I have time.
I already feel that this takes up an enormous amount of time, time that is enjoyable but which keeps me from doing other important things. I'm amazed that you have time to work on so many blog entries. Impressive.
Posted by: Pam/Digging | March 21, 2007 6:31 AM
Great questions! I'm "nosy" like you, so it'll be fun seeing what other bloggers say.
I try to post at least three times per week. Some weeks I end up posting every weekday, some weeks, I'm lucky if I manage to post once. Morning is my blogging time. Like you, I'm OCD about checking my stats. I tend to take a peek at my feed reader before I get started, to see what's going on out in the blogosphere. I comment if I have time. If not, I try to remember to go back later and comment. I sort of "check in" throughout the day to approve comments and respond. Doing it this way generally means that I can respond personally to each comment, which is kind of a rule for me. If I let them all build up, it's less likely I'll respond to my comments in a timely fashion.
I finally started using a feed reader to keep track of my fave garden blogs. I was spending far, far too much time on Garden Voices. Reading garden blogs can be absolutely addictive :-)
Posted by: Colleen | March 21, 2007 8:25 PM
I shoot for the sky and promise myself that I'm going to blog every night and then fail miserably. Especially in these long winter months my posting frequency goes way down.
Having a 9-5, two young kids and a fix-er-upper house I should be amazed that I post at all. But when I do, it's either late at night after everyone has gone to sleep or early in the mornings on the weekend.
During my lunch breaks, I usually sit in my car with my laptop and plan out future posts and site related marketing tasks, etc.
If I can ever become a problogger it will be so much easier with a full day to work with.
Posted by: Anthony | March 21, 2007 10:07 PM
I'm not at all disciplined about blogging, and I will readily admit that. If something comes to mind, either in response to something I have seen in the garden or something I have read on someone else's blog, I will start to write. Sometimes I start posts when a topic is in my head and then come back to finish the post a week or more after the initial burst. (I think that I have 4 blog posts started but unfinished right now.)
I have dropped everything in the garden to come inside, wash my hands, and race back out with the camera to take a picture (for example, of parasitic wasp eggs on a tomato hornworm) so that I can blog about something later. I have also put off making a post for days because of life: good gardening weather, volleyball tournament games, etc.
And stats? I don't even look at those... I'm just delighted when I get comments on my posts because I generally learn things and appreciate the sharing.
I do need to subscribe to a feed thing soon, though. More and more of the blogs that I like to read are found through Stuart's blog directory, comments left on other garden blogs, etc., and I can't even find all of them through Garden Voices anymore!
Posted by: Kim | March 21, 2007 10:37 PM