11 Post Ideas When You Run Out of Topics

11 Post Ideas When You Run Out of Topics

If you are new in blogging you probably never face this situation. Besides you still have good spirit you also must have prepared a lot of things to write before starting your blog. But by the time goes by you will start to run out of topics for your blog. But don’t worry, you may consider the following idea for your post when you experience this situation. In this post the sequence doesn’t represent the priority. I just highlight the points

1. Press Release

This is the simplest way to get source for your post especially when your blog is about product related topics. A company will never stop writing press release so you will never lose idea. You may only buzz the news or make a summary to highlight the points. But i would suggest that instead of only buzzing the news it would be better if you can put 2 or 3 lines of your opinions about the release.

2. Buzzing Other’s Blog Posts

I do this sometimes when i came across an interesting post in other’s blog. I also suggest to put a link to the original post. It’s not only about ethics but also when you do this your post will be appeared as comment in the original blog (in wordpress). This is a good way to promote your blog to others who read the original post.

3. Product/Service Review

You may found something interesting either it’s a product or service and it’s really impressed you. You can write a review about it. It doesn’t have to be a detail or technical review. You may write a quick review or just put your opinions, impression about that product or service.

4. Summarize Your Previous Posts

If you have been blogging for quite long times you must have few posts that could be on the same category. You can summarize them and make a new post. Besides it will refresh your memory you can also make a better post by combining couple of posts.

5. Running Contest

This is one of popular idea among bloggers. The contest can be varied starting from RSS subscription, writing comments, etc. There’s always a reward for a contest, that’s right. But it doesn’t have be money. You can offer something like EntreCard credits, 1 month ads slot, link on your blog, etc.

6. Blog Review

You might think this is strange but frankly speaking, this is very effective way to use. You can get idea for your post and at the same time building relationship with other bloggers. But off course you have to be selective to choose which blog to review. My suggestion is you can write a review of a new blogs, blog of people that commented most on your blog, top EntreCard droppers, etc. You can also find blogs from blogs community like EntreCard, MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog, etc.

7. Tips

Most of the time people write about tips on their blogs. And i’m sure that you must have found some tips when working on your blog. Instead of keeping it why don’t you share it and post it on your blog.

8. Link Love

One of the link love i do is the EntreCard top 10 droppers. I write a post to list the top EntreCard droppers on my blog in 1 month period. You may have another kind of link love. May be you can share it here on a comment.

9. Book Review

Again, blogging is about sharing something to others. When you read a book there must be something that you remember. Writing it and post it on your blog will make you easier to memorize what you have read.

10. YouTube Video

Everybody watching YouTube but don’t know which video is the best one. By recommending a YouTube video to others on your blog will help people to save their time looking for video that they really need.

11. Guest Poster

Many people things that guest blogger means you pay someone to write on your blog. It’s not always like that. I was invited by MakeUseOf few months ago offering opportunity to write for their blog. They didn’t offer me money at that time but link to the blog only. But because i was busy on other things i had to reject their offer.

Author : James

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How Not to Lose Your Ideas

How Not to Lose Your Ideas

There are times when ideas suddenly come to my mind. It doesn’t have to be in a certain time or occasion. I can be walking to the campus, lying in the bed, cooking, or whatever. The ideas just come. And many times, the ideas just come once. It means that if I forget the ideas then it will be very hard to get them back. So I’ve learned not to lose any single idea, and the rule for that is very simple:

Write them as soon as possible

When idea strike, usually I just stop whatever I am doing and write the ideas down first. Writing the ideas as soon as possible is very important, otherwise the ideas would have gone in matter of minutes. And as I’ve said above, it will be very hard to get them back.

Since ideas can come anytime, I have the habit of bringing a piece of paper and a pen with me wherever I go. It doesn’t have to be a pocket book or index card, just a simple piece of paper. Whenever ideas strike, I would quickly take the paper out of my pocket and write them down. Later when I go home I would transfer the idea to my idea journal in the computer. It works for me, and I believe it will also work for you. Of course, the detail of how you do it is up to you. Just don’t let the ideas gone.

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter) , October 25, 2006

4 Simple Ways to Never Lose Your Ideas

4 Simple Ways to Never Lose Your Ideas

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter) , April 20, 2007

Ideas are precious. Especially in this Internet age where many things quickly becomes commodity, ideas are what set you apart and keep you ahead of the pack. You need to always have good and fresh ideas.

Unfortunately, we often cannot anticipate when an idea will come. Suddenly, out of the blue, comes the idea. It doesn’t care whether you are at home, on the road, or in the office. It doesn’t care what you are doing. It just comes. Even worse, it will quickly go. And once it goes, chance is it will never come back. So the challenge is capturing those ideas during its short visit without ever letting it go.

How can you do that? Here are four ways:

1. Bring a piece of paper and a pen wherever you go
   This is my favorite method. When I go out, writing on paper is the fastest way to capture an idea. I used to write my ideas on PDA, but I now think it’s too slow because it may not be able to recognize my handwriting on the first try. I often need to repeat writing. By writing on paper, I can write just once and it’s done. I will later transfer the ideas from the paper to a more permanent place which acts as my “idea warehouse”. I use Microsoft OneNote for that (also check the post Using OneNote for Idea Management).
2. Use Google Desktop’s Scratch Pad
   How do you quickly capture ideas while you are using a computer? Of course there are many ways to do that. You can open a word processor or create a text file. But I guess the fastest way is using Scratch Pad from Google Desktop. It’s always visible in the sidebar so you do not need to find and launch any program. And it automatically saves the text written in it, so you don’t even need to press a Save button. It’s a quick way to get the idea out of your mind and put it in a safe place.
3. Write a draft message in your cell phone
   Okay, sometimes you may forget to bring a piece of paper with you when you go out. But you won’t forget to bring your cell phone with you, will you? So in such case, you can write your ideas as a new text message in your cell phone and save it as draft. It is not as quick as writing on paper, but it’s still a safe and sure way to capture your ideas when you don’t have a piece of paper with you.
4. Tell someone about it
   Why should you bear all the burden yourself? Share it with someone else :). You can tell your friend about your idea and ask her to help remind you about it. You don’t even need to be physically in the same location as her. You can call or send her a text message.

Getting Ideas For Your Blog

Getting Ideas For Your Blog

Before you get further for being a blogger, i want you think about your blog in the future.
I mean, you make your blog but you dont know what are you really going to write to your blog. it's a silly thing when you have done making an account on blogger.com then you say "what next".
ok then, if you don't want that silly thing happen (it happened to me many times, when on my first blogging), you have to imagine what are you gonna do with your blog, is it a private blog, making money blog, business blog or social blog?

Idea is very difficult to express (it really does with me), All you have to do is dig your idea out.
How?
1. What are you interesting about?
2. What's your hobby?
3. Are you a narsis?
4. Do You Work?
5. Don't have any idea yet.


1. What Are You Interesting About?
Tell me, What are you interesting in?
are you interesting in computer? or Politics? or Finance?
then write all about them... write about what are you really interesting in

2. What's Your Hobby
Fishing, Hunting, Singing, Or Listening a music....
Great! that's your resources of idea... dig it out....

3. Are You Narsis?
Post your photo, write a diary about what's going on today, isn't exciting that all over the world wathing you, what are you feeling today....

4. Do You Work?
If yes, why don't you write about your skill, it'll be great if you share your skill to others. If you are a Journalist, then why don't you write about journalism.

5. Don't Have Any Idea Yet?
If you don't have any idea yet, then don't frustating...
you'll get interesting idea, for example, Amazon.com because it really is a huge encyclopedia or library. There are other sites as well that can be helpful, such as Google (you can search about what is in your head right now), Magazines.com, Ask.com Top Searches http://about.ask.com/en/docs/iq/iq.shtml, 43things.com http://www.43things.com/, Lycos 50 http://50.lycos.com/, and many others....

and for the last word i say to you, DIG OUT YOUR IDEA... AND GET BLOGGING