How to Craft a Blog Post

Here's another more general/less library-specific blogging resource that I stumbled across while trying to teach myself more about blogging: "How to Craft a Blog Post - 10 Crucial Points to Pause" by Darren Rowse.

Rowse writes that "too often as bloggers we 'PUNCH' out content as though we're in a race or under some kind of deadline…unfortunately the posts we write often reflect this."

Well, Darren, I was indeed under a deadline while writing my first two entries, and I admit that I waited until the last possible minute to do so, and I'm afraid that those posts do reflect that. Hopefully my future posts (starting with this one) will be better and of more interest to whoever might be reading them (probably no one).

Anyway, Rowse suggests that blogging should be "a more thoughtful process that is about crafting words and ideas - shaping posts into content that take readers on a journey." The remainder of his article is then divided into ten sections in which he outlines exactly how to do just that. The ten sections are:

1. Choosing a Topic
2. Crafting Your Post's Title
3. The Opening Line
4. Your 'point/s' (making your posts matter)
5. Call to Action
6. Adding Depth
7. Quality Control and Polishing of Posts
8. Timing of Publishing Your Post
9. Post Promotion
10. Conversation

I hope to apply these ten suggestions to my future blog posts, and I hope that my fellow class bloggers who may or may not be reading this post with find them useful as well.