Do You Blog on Mondays?
…she asked me, quite innocently… Apparently I do, I told her.
On Mondays, it seems, the guilt of neglecting my blog meets with the promise of a new week, and I can spring into action and post!
I’ve taught blogging for business for more than three years now, and have ALWAYS said to blog 2-3 times a week, or you’re not a serious blogger.
A Blog of Small Things
However, since my blog is my web site (it works for me); it seems appropriate for me not to post small things… I choose to wait until the energy or a good story moves me. It’s not particularly good for my Technorati ranking, but I believe it’s better for my readers.
I got an email on Sept. 11 from a colleague who forwarded a daily blog post she subscribes to, and said,
“Seth’s daily blog seems to me like a daily Fortune Cookie. Am I missing something here?”
My response: “I think your observation is fabulous. He’s tired, and experimenting… when you’ve been blogging for years, you either do what I do, and go for spurts when you blog 2-3 times a week, and then only on Mondays… or you do what he’s doing, and dash off thoughts that look like haiku and sometimes work, most of the time, don’t.
But what’s that saying about Babe Ruth and the number of strikeouts vs. home runs he had?”
Blogging is Personal - Make it Yours
A blog - yes, even a business blog that doubles as a web site - is a personal, living, breathing thing. And when people are not inspired, writing can be uninspiring. You never know what’s going to move someone to action… to post, to comment, to reference… but poorly written, boring or uninspiring posts rarely do.
My friend Dylan posts on Sunday afternoons. He will often queue up posts for the week, and then be done. I think that’s smart. But I don’t have his discipline.
So I often blog on Mondays… it seems to work for me.
